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Subject: OASIS News 20 March 2006
OASIS News 20 March 2006 Welcome to OASIS News, a weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international standards consortium. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Balloting Opens for BCM, SPML, and WSRF as OASIS Standards Consortium members are requested to vote on three specifications that have been put forth for consideration as OASIS Standards. BCM v1.0 defines methods to acquire interoperable e-business information systems within communities of interest. Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) v2.0 provides an XML framework for managing the provisioning and allocation of identity information and system resources within and between organizations. WSRF v1.2 defines an open framework for modeling and accessing stateful resources using Web services. Balloting for the three specifications closes 31 March. BCM: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200603/msg00002.html SPML: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200603/msg00003.html WSRF: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200603/msg00001.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deadline Approaches for Comments on UBL v2.0 The public review of UBL v2.0 ends 21 March. Members and interested parties are encouraged to provide comments on the specification, which defines a common XML library of business documents. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200601/msg00006.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Publishes ebXML Case Study A new OASIS case study details the use of ebXML and PKI at Norway's National Insurance Administration (NIA). The NIA system has transported several million ebXML messages corresponding to transactions totaling over 1.5 billion USD. This case study was authored by Pim van der Eijk with cooperation from OASIS members, NIA and Xenos. http://www.oasis-open.org/casestudies/index.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Announces Symposium Panel Discussions The OASIS Symposium is noted for its open, candid discussions. This year will be no exception as panels of experts debate a variety of issues including: Does SOA Help Interoperability?, What Are the Main Challenges to Interoperability?, What Isn't Being Done?, and ideas for new technical work, with an emphasis on interoperability. Early-bird registration offers a 50 USD discount and is available until 31 March. http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium_2006/index.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Gotze Joins OASIS Staff The Consortium is pleased to welcome John Gotze, XML specialist and technical writer, to our staff. John assists Robin Cover with research, writing, and editing content for the XML.org and Cover Pages websites. He is also an associate professor at Copenhagen Business School and at the Danish IT University. Prior to joining OASIS, John participated in developing the Danish national policy for a government-wide enterprise architecture and interoperability framework, and was involved with developing the European Interoperability Framework under the eEurope 2005 programme. http://www.oasis-open.org/who/staff.php#gotze ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Consortium Looks to Hire Webmaster and Web Developer Current job openings at OASIS include Webmaster/Junior Web Developer and Senior Web Developer. Webmaster responsibilities encompass customer service, daily content edits, and administration of web systems. The Senior Web Developer will work on systems that integrate many open source applications such as wikis, content management, ticketing, and subversion, on LAMP. Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply via email. http://www.oasis-open.org/jobs/jr-webdeveloper.php http://www.oasis-open.org/jobs/sr-webdeveloper.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Events The following events are co-sponsored by OASIS: 23-25 March DITA 2006 Raleigh, NC, USA http://www.travelthepath.com/dita2006.html 27-29 March Gartner Business Process Management Summit 2006 Nashville, TN, USA http://www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/bpm2.jsp An OASIS members-only discount is available. 3-5 April Content Management Strategies Conference San Francisco, CA, USA http://www.cm-strategies.com/ 23-27 April Wilshire Meta-Data Conference and DAMA International Symposium Denver, CO, USA http://www.wilshireconferences.com/MD2006/index.htm An OASIS members-only discount is available. 9-12 May OASIS Symposium San Francisco, CA, USA http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium_2006/ 16-18 May BuilConn Palm Springs, CA, USA http://www.builconn.com/2006/na/default.asp 16-18 May GridWise Expo Palm Springs, CA, USA http://www.gridwiseexpo.com/2006/na/default.asp 16-18 May M2M Expo and Conference Palm Springs, CA, USA http://www.m2mexpo.com/2006/na/default.asp 9-14 June 3rd European Semantic Web Conference Budva, Montenegro http://www.eswc2006.org/ 23-28 July XML Summer School University of Oxford, UK http://www.xmlsummerschool.com/
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