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Subject: OASIS News: 2 Nov 2007
OASIS News 2 Nov 2007 Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium. In this issue: * Service Data Objects (SDO) TC forms * OASIS announces 'Open Standards 2008: SOA Composability' * SAML Metadata specifications become OASIS Standards * OASIS Standard ballot on Election Markup Language (EML) 5.0 opens * Public review begins for ODF 1.1 Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 * Public review begins for EDXL Hospital AVailability Exchange 1.0 * Second public review begins for WSRP 2.0 * OASIS seeks candidates for Technical Advisory Board * IDtrust co-sponsors symposium on identity standards * European publications community gathers for DITA Europe * Google sponsors OpenDocument XML.org * IDtrust completes successful workshop at Catalyst Europe ------------------------------------------------------------------- Service Data Objects (SDO) TC forms Members of OASIS have formed a new TC to evolve and standardize SDO specifications that simplify the way SOA applications handle data. Using SDO, application programmers can uniformly access and manipulate data from heterogeneous data sources, including relational databases, XML data sources, Web services, and enterprise information systems. Proposers of the OASIS SDO TC, which is associated with the Open CSA Member Section, include representatives of BEA, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Xcalia, and others. The TC's first meeting will be a teleconference on 29 Nov. New participants are welcome. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200710/msg00011.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS announces 'Open Standards 2008: SOA Composability' symposium Next year's annual OASIS event, the Open Standards 2008 symposium, is scheduled for 28 April - 1 May in Santa Clara, California, USA. Organized on the theme 'Composability within SOA', the event will be an opportunity for both researchers and business practitioners to state their challenges, best practices, and experiences. It will also be a forum where technology architects provide a fair assessment of the current status of composability standards and implementations, including opportunities for improvement and potential obstacles. The OASIS TAB invites proposals for talks, panel sessions, and tutorials; submission must be received by 17 Dec. http://events.oasis-open.org/home/symposium/2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------- SAML Metadata specifications become OASIS Standards Members have approved the Metadata Profile for the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 1.x and the Metadata Extension for SAML 2.0 and 1.x Query Requesters as OASIS Standards. SAML defines an XML-based framework for creating and exchanging security information between online partners. Congratulations to Security Services TC co-chairs, Hal Lockhart of BEA Systems and Brian Campbell, and to all TC participants for this accomplishment. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200711/msg00001.html http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200711/msg00000.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Standard ballot on Election Markup Language (EML) 5.0 opens The OASIS Election and Voter Services TC has submitted EML 5.0 to be considered as an OASIS Standard. EML provides a standard method for structured interchange among hardware, software, and service providers who engage in any aspect of providing election or voter services to public or private organizations. On 16 Nov, a Call for Vote on EML 5.0 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/200711/msg00002.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Public review begins for ODF 1.1 Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 The OASIS Open Document Format (ODF) for Office Applications TC has approved version 1.0 of the Accessibility Guidelines for ODF 1.1 as a Committee Draft and submitted it for public review. The Accessibility Guidelines describe requirements ODF 1.1 implementations must meet to gain, persist, and present information so that users with disabilities are equally able to read, create, and edit documents. The review ends 21 Dec. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200710/msg00010.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Public review begins for EDXL-HAVE 1.0 The OASIS Emergency Management TC has approved version 1.0 of the Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Hospital AVailability Exchange (HAVE) as a Committee Draft and submitted it for public review. EDXL-HAVE specifies an XML document format that allows communication on the status of hospital services and resources, including bed capacity and availability, emergency room status, and available service coverage. The review ends 18 Dec. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200710/msg00009.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Second public review begins for WSRP 2.0 The OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets TC has disposed of comments from the initial public review of WSRP version 2.0 and submitted it for a second, 15-day public review. The specification enables an application designer or administrator to select from a rich choice of compliant, remote content and application providers, and integrate them with no programming effort. This revision of WSRP adds consumer-managed coordination, additional lifecycle management and a set of related aggregation enhancements. All are invited to provide comments on WSRP 2.0; this review ends 15 Nov. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200710/msg00012.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS seeks candidates for Technical Advisory Board Nominations remain open until 30 Nov for candidates interested in filling a vacated seat on the TAB. The successful candidate will participate in the TAB's mission to identify opportunities and areas for standardization within OASIS that are beneficial for the entire community. A 30-day special election will begin 4 Dec. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200710/msg00015.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- IDtrust co-sponsors symposium on identity standards A call for papers has been issued for IDtrust 2008, a symposium on identity and trust on the internet. The OASIS IDtrust Member Section is co-sponsoring this event, which will bring together academia, government, and industry to explore all aspects of identity and trust. The Symposium will be held at the NIST facility in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA on 4-6 March. The deadline to submit papers is 17 Nov. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200711/msg00003.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- European publications community gathers for DITA Europe OASIS will co-sponsor the third annual DITA Europe Conference, which will be held 13-14 Nov in Brussels. The event is designed for those who are interested in implementing DITA or learning more about this OASIS Standard for topic-based authoring. Other conference sponsors include Adobe, Comet Communication, Comtech, Inmedius, JustSystems, PTC, and XyEnterprise. http://www.infomanagementcenter.com/DITAeurope/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------- Google sponsors OpenDocument XML.org OASIS welcomes Google as the newest sponsor of OpenDocument XML.org. This web site serves as the official community gathering place and information resource for the ODF OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300). Google's support, along with that of IBM and Sun, helps promote adoption of ODF through education and community involvement. http://opendocument.xml.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- IDtrust completes successful workshop at Catalyst Europe Presentations from Abbie Barbir of Nortel, Andre Durand of Ping Identity, John Sabo of CA, Martin Euchner of Nokia, Eve Maler of Sun, Anthony Nadalin of IBM, and others are now available online. http://events.oasis-open.org/home/idtrust/2007/programme ------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates 15 Nov: Web Services for Remote Portlets 2.0 public review ends http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200710/msg00012.html 16 Nov: OASIS Standard ballot for EML 5.0 opens http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200711/msg00002.html 30 Nov: Nomination period for TAB special election ends http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200710/msg00015.html 17 Dec: Deadline to submit papers for OASIS Open Standards 2008 http://events.oasis-open.org/home/symposium/2008 18 Dec: EDXL Hospital AVailability Exchange (HAVE) 1.0 public review ends http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200710/msg00009.html 21 Dec: ODF 1.1 Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 public review ends http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200710/msg00010.html 4-6 Mar: IDtrust Symposium http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200711/msg00003.html 28 Apr - 1 May: OASIS hosts 'Open Standards 2008: SOA Composability' conference http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2007/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian. 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