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Subject: OASIS News: 4 June 2007
OASIS News 4 June 2007 Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium. * CAM becomes an OASIS Standard * OASIS Standard ballot on WS-SecurityPolicy 1.2 opens soon * Consortium solicits feedback on proposed DSS-X charter * Week of ebXML webinars starts today * Extreme session seeks to identify gaps in standards landscape * TC forms OASIS DocBook Subcommittee for Publishers * Eight companies will demonstrate XACML interoperability at Catalyst * US FCC issues requirement for CAP OASIS Standard * LegalXML eContracts TC completes work * Upcoming deadlines ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CAM becomes an OASIS Standard Members have approved version 1.1 of the Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) specification as an OASIS Standard. CAM provides an open, XML-based system for using business rules to define, validate, and compose specific business documents from generalized schema elements and structures. CAM also provides the foundation for creating industry libraries and dictionaries of schema elements and business document structures to support business process needs. Congratulations to TC chair, David Webber, and all the TC members for this accomplishment. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200706/msg00001.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Standard ballot on WS-SecurityPolicy 1.2 opens soon The OASIS Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) TC has submitted WS-SecurityPolicy version 1.2 to be considered as an OASIS Standard. WS-SecurityPolicy defines a base set of assertions that describe how messages are to be secured in the WS-Policy framework. On 16 June, a Call for Vote on WS-SecurityPolicy 1.2 will be issued to all OASIS member organizations. Members who wish to discuss this ballot may do so through member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200706/msg00000.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Consortium solicits feedback on proposed DSS-X charter Members of OASIS have submitted a draft charter to establish the OASIS Digital Signature Services eXtended (DSS-X) TC. The group plans to facilitate the processing of digital signatures and time stamps in a client server environment. Following the recent completion of the OASIS DSS TC, the proposed DSS-X work includes promoting and maintaining the DSS OASIS Standard, as well as creating new profiles. The comment period for the charter closes 12 June 2007. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200705/msg00015.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Week of ebXML webinars starts today Monday, 4 June, begins four days of free webinars devoted to the ebXML OASIS Standards (ISO 15000). A different standard will be featured each day at 3:00 PM GMT (8:00 AM San Francisco, 11:00 AM Boston, 4:00 PM London). Attend one or all four. Learn about the current state of the ebXML standards from the people who created them and who continue to advance this foundational work. http://www.oasis-open.org/events/webinars/ebxml-2007.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Extreme session seeks to identify gaps in standards landscape Mary McRae of OASIS will co-host an interactive session at the Extreme Markup Languages conference, 7-10 August, in Montréal, Canada. The conference offers an open marketplace of theories about markup and its use in publishing, linguistics, transformation, searching, indexing, and storage and retrieval. In McRae's session, "Mind the Gap: Seeking holes in the markup-related standards suite," the audience will suggest areas where new XML-related specifications would be useful. This will be an information gathering activity, not an evaluative process, and all suggestions are welcome. OASIS members receive 20% discount off Extreme registration (contact events@oasis-open.org for details). http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/abstracts.html#h400p ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TC forms OASIS DocBook Subcommittee for Publishers Chartered to develop and maintain official variants of the DocBook OASIS Standard in support of the publishing industry, this new subcommittee will focus on schema and stylesheet customizations for books, journals and related publications. The effort will concentrate on building official variants on the DocBook v5.0 schemas and address enhancement requests from real-world DocBook implementations. The subcommittee is chaired by Scott Hudson of Flatirons. www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=docbook-publishers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eight companies will demonstrate XACML interoperability at Catalyst On 28 June, BEA Systems, IBM, Jericho Systems, Oracle, Red Hat, Securent, and other OASIS members will join together at the Catalyst Conference in San Francisco to demonstrate interoperability of the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) 2.0 OASIS Standard. An extremely flexible language for expressing access control, XACML is particularly designed to support large-scale environments where resources are distributed and policy administration is federated. OASIS members save up to 35% on Catalyst registration (contact dee.schur@oasis-open.org for details). http://catalyst.burtongroup.com/NA07/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- US FCC issues requirement for CAP OASIS Standard The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is requiring participants in its Emergency Alert System (EAS) to accept messages using the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) OASIS Standard. The FCC states that the use of CAP will help ensure the efficient and rapid transmission of EAS alerts to the public in a variety of formats (including text, audio and video) and via different means (broadcast, cable, satellite, and other networks). http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LegalXML eContracts TC completes work The OASIS LegalXML eContracts TC, which was formed under the legacy OASIS Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy, did not achieve the consensus needed to transition to the current IPR Policy and has concluded operations. The TC produced the eContracts OASIS Committee Specification, which provides an XML markup model that is designed to enable the efficient creation, maintenance, management, exchange, and publication of a wide range of business and consumer contract documents. The TC's public pages and email archives will remain permanently accessible. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200706/msg00003.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming deadlines 8 Jun: Emergency Data Exchange (EDXL-RM) 1.0 public review http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200704/msg00011.html 10 Jun: Election Markup Language (EML) 5.0 public review http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200704/msg00011.html 15 Jun: OASIS Board and TAB elections http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200705/msg00010.html 9 Jul: Document standards interoperability discussion list http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200704/msg00009.html 16 Jul: Code List Representation 1.0 public review http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200705/msg00012.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Recent press release: OASIS Broadens PKI Agenda to Form Identity and Trusted Infrastructure (IDtrust) Member Section http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2007-05-24.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- **Membership Tip #39** Send feedback to the OASIS Board of Directors at oasis-board-comment@lists.oasis-open.org (publicly archived list). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. 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