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Subject: OASIS News: 21 August 2006
OASIS News 21 August 2006 Welcome to OASIS News, a weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international standards consortium. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Announces Newly Seated Board of Directors and Technical Advisory Board OASIS issued a press release today to announce its newly seated Board of Directors and Technical Advisory Board (TAB). Paul Knight of Nortel was elected, and Ed Cobb of BEA Systems, Robert Glushko, Ph.D, of the University of California, Berkeley, Frederick Hirsch of Nokia, and Jeff Mischkinsky of Oracle were re-elected to the OASIS Board of Directors. The OASIS Board of Directors is chaired by Eduardo Gutentag of Sun Microsystems and also includes John Jackson of General Motors, Chris Kurt of Microsoft, Claus von Riegen of SAP and Michael Winters of IBM, as well as Patrick Gannon, who has an appointed seat on the Board of Directors as President and CEO of OASIS. Newly elected TAB members include Abbie Barbir of Nortel, Bill Barnhill of Booz Allen Hamilton, Jacques Durand of Fujitsu Limited, and Andy Lee of China's Changfeng Open Standards Platform Software Alliance. They join existing TAB members, Martin Chapman, Ph.D. of Oracle, William Cox, Ph.D., Pete Wenzel of Sun Microsystems, and Hal Lockhart of BEA Systems, who chairs the TAB. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/200608/msg00002.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS CEO Visits China Patrick Gannon spoke at several events hosted by OASIS members in Beijing last week, including the Digital Innovate China Conference, hosted by Digital China, and the SOA Strategy conference, hosted by Changfeng Alliance. Patrick also represented OASIS at the ODF Conference, hosted by China 2000, the creators of Red Office, which now supports ODF. He attended briefings by Beijing Sursen on their UOML Proposal, recently launched as a new OASIS discussion list. Patrick expressed appreciation for the support demonstrated by the local Chinese employees of OASIS multi-national members, as well as the enthusiasm of software vendors, system integrators, standards organizations and government officials in China. http://www.uoml.org/news/OASIS_CEO_VISIT.htm http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200608/msg00003.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Consortium approves Guidelines for Filenames, URIs, Namespaces, and Metadata Members of OASIS have approved the "Guidelines for Filenames, URIs, Namespaces, and Metadata". The rules presented in this document are concerned chiefly with resources targeted for publication in the OASIS Open Library. OASIS would like to thank the OASIS Technical Advisory Board (TAB) and all those that took time to review and comment on numerous drafts. This document will be updated periodically; notification of updates will be posted to the members list. http://docs.oasis-open.org/ http://docs.oasis-open.org/specGuidelines/namingGuidelines/resourceNaming.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ongoing Public Reviews 60-day review of oBIX v1.0 ends 12 Sept. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200607/msg00003.html 60-day review of XLIFF v1.2 ends 12 Sept. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200607/msg00004.html 60-day review of OpenDocument v1.1 ends 25 Sept. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200607/msg00009.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor Workshop and Demonstration of Advances in ICT Standards for Public Warning Sponsorship opportunities are available for the first international workshop on standards for public warning, to be held in Geneva, 19-20 October 2006. Hosted by the ITU-T and OASIS, and the event will attract high-level, public sector officials from various nations. Attendees will come together to gain and share knowledge of public warning systems, implementations and experiences. Opportunities to establish co-operative relationships for key players from both the public and private sectors will be provided. For more information on sponsorship, contact dee.schur@oasis-open.org http://www.oasis-open.org/events/ITU-T-OASISWorkshop2006/schedule.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deadline Nears for Adoption Forum Presentations The OASIS Adoption Forum, to be held 28-29 November in London, will focus on the tools, standards, and implementations that are transforming security interactions and relationships between citizens, businesses, governmental institutions, and agencies. Potential speakers are especially encouraged to submit presentations related to: the SAML OASIS Standard (ITU X.1141) as a foundation for identity management; the XACML OASIS Standard (ITU X.1142) as a foundation for representing and evaluating access control policies; the use of biometric identity information in Web services; and wider issues related to SOA and security, for example, how security fits into an SOA framework. The submission deadline is 31 August. http://www.oasis-open.org/events/adoptionforum2006/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Events 21-25 August DITA Boot Camp Wakefield, MA, USA http://dita.xml.org/node/1381 30 August XML and technical documentation - with DITA case study Culemborg, Netherlands http://dita.xml.org/node/1360 11-13 September OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2006) Lyon, France http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/ 24-27-29 September Open Publish Baltimore, MD http://open-conferences.com/baltimore 2-4 October AJAX World Conference & Exhibition 2006 Santa Clara, California http://www.ajaxworldexpo.com/ 11-12 October TMRA 2006 - Leveraging the Semantics Leipzig, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra/ 19-20 October ITU-T and OASIS Workshop and Demonstration of Advances in ICT Standards for Public Warning Geneva, Switzerland http://www.oasis-open.org/events/ITU-T-OASISWorkshop2006/index.php 25-27 October OASIS Open Standards Sydney, Australia http://www.open-standards.com 2-3 November DITA Europe Conference 2006 Frankfurt, Germany http://www.infomanagementcenter.com/DITAeurope/index.htm 8-9 November OASIS Open Standards Day Germany Wiesbaden, Germany http://www.tekom.de/upload/alg/CfP%20OOSD.pdf 13-17 November UBL International 2006 Copenhagen, Denmark http://www.ublconference.com/ 28-29 November OASIS Adoption Forum London, UK http://www.oasis-open.org/events/adoptionforum2006/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Japanese, and Korean. 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