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Subject: OASIS News: 23 October 2006


OASIS News
23 October 2006

Welcome to OASIS News, a weekly update of announcements,
accomplishments, and activities for the international standards consortium.

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Members Comment on Committee Voting Rule

The OASIS Board Process Committee invites members to comment on a
proposal to change TC voting rights. Currently every person who holds
"Voting Member" status in a Committee is eligible to vote on Committee
ballots. There is no limit to the number of employees from a single
organization that may cast votes within a Committee. Some members have
expressed concerns regarding the fairness of this approach. They feel it
often results in a drain on organizations' resources (as companies feel
pressured to keep their participant count equal to that of others on the
TC) and difficulties in managing quorum. Other members have reservations
about making a change in the OASIS TC Process that might reduce
participation by removing the incentive of voting, grant one Individual
member of OASIS the same voting power as an entire organization, and
unfairly restrict the voting rights of many valuable Committee
participants. The actions under evaluation at this time include:
(a) leaving the rules as currently written; (b) capping the total number
of votes that may be cast by TC members from a single organization to 1,
2 or 3; (c) capping the total number of votes that may be cast by TC
members from a single organization based on membership level. Members
are encouraged to post their comments on this issue to
oasis-member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org by 20 Nov.

http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/oasis-member-discuss/200610/maillist.html

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Public Review Begins for WebCGM v2.0

The OASIS CGM Open WebCGM TC has recently approved the WebCGM Version
2.0 specification as a Committee Draft and approved the package for
public review. WebCGM is a new profile of the CGM standard (ISO/IEC
8632) that describes how CGM vectors, raster, and hybrid graphics are to
be used on the Web. The public review ends 4 Nov.

http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200610/msg00007.html

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Review WS-Security Errata

The OASIS Web Services Security TC has recently approved a set of
Errata as a Committee Draft and approved the package for public review.
The errata documents are WS-Security SOAP Message Security 1.1 Errata,
X.509 Token Profile 1.1 Errata, Kerberos Token Profile 1.1 Errata, SAML
Token Profile 1.1 Errata, and SOAP With Attachments (SWA) Profile
Errata. The public review ends 31 Oct.

http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200610/msg00005.html

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Ongoing Public Reviews

60-day review of Web Services Business Process Execution Language
(WS-BPEL) v2.0 ends 9 Nov.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200609/msg00004.html

60-day review of UBL Naming and Design Rules v2.0 ends 12 Nov.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200609/msg00007.html

60-day review of WS-SX WS-SecureConversation v1.3 and WS-Trust v1.3
ends 14 Nov.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200609/msg00008.html

60-day review of WS-TX Atomic Transaction v1.1 and WS-Coordination v1.1
ends 14 Nov.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200609/msg00009.html

60-day review of Materials Markup Language PR1 ends 14 Nov.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200609/msg00010.html

60-day review of Digital Signature Services v1.0 ends 2 Dec.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200610/msg00003.html

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TAB Issues Call for Participation for April Symposium in San Diego

"eBusiness and Open Standards: Understanding the Facts, Fiction, and
Future" is the theme for next year's OASIS Symposium, which will be held
15-17 April in San Diego, California USA. The Consortium's Technical
Advisory Board (TAB) welcomes submissions for presentations, panels, and
tutorials relevant to this theme. The Call for Participation deadline is
15 Dec.

http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/

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OASIS Emergency Management TC Approves IPR Transition

Members of the OASIS Open Building Information Exchange (oBIX) TC have
voted to adopt the "RF on RAND" Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) mode
for their work. As defined in the OASIS IPR Policy, "RF on RAND"
operates in the same manner as RAND, however, it does not permit the
patent holder to charge fees or royalties for the license.

http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

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OASIS and ITU-T Complete Successful Public Warning Workshop  in Geneva

Attendees from 16 different countries participated in last week's 
'Workshop and Demonstration of Advances in ICT Standards for Public
Warning' in Geneva, Switzerland  Companies including Warning Systems
Inc., Hormann Warning Systems, MyStateUSA, and WorldSpace participated
in demonstrations of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) OASIS Standard.
Speakers from Australia, Hungary, Sri Lanka, and the United States
discussed their implementations of CAP. The workshop concluded with a
recommendation between the ITU-T and OASIS, among other interested
international bodies, to cooperatively pursue the integration of CAP
into other international standards efforts in support of Emergency
Management and Disaster Reduction.

http://www.oasis-open.org/events/ITU-T-OASISWorkshop2006/index.php

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Events

25-27 Oct
OASIS Open Standards
Sydney, Australia
http://www.open-standards.com

2-3 Nov
DITA Europe Conference 2006
Frankfurt, Germany
http://www.infomanagementcenter.com/DITAeurope/index.htm

8-9 Nov
OASIS Open Standards Day Germany
Wiesbaden, Germany
http://www.tekom.de/upload/alg/CfP%20OOSD.pdf

13-17 Nov
UBL International 2006
Copenhagen, Denmark
http://www.ublconference.com/

28-29 Nov
OASIS Adoption Forum
London, UK
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/adoptionforum2006/

Next Year:

15-20 Apr 2007
Fourth Annual OASIS Symposium
San Diego, USA

All events:
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/calendar.php

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