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Subject: OASIS News: 4 Dec 2007
OASIS News 4 Dec 2007 Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium. Committee announcements: * EML 5.0 becomes an OASIS Standard * Public review begins for WS-ReliableMessaging errata * Public review begins for XRI Resolution 2.0 * Third public review begins for Code List Representation 1.0 Other news: * ITU-T extension reduces the size of CAP messages * Volunteers translate ODF into Russian * Nominations open for LegalXML Steering Committee * Submit abstracts for Open Standards 2008: Composability within SOA ------------------------------------------------------------------- EML 5.0 becomes an OASIS Standard Members have approved version 5.0 of the Election Markup Language (EML) as an OASIS Standard. EML enables the exchange of data for public and private election services. Congratulations to Election and Voter Services TC chair, John Borras, and to all TC participants for this accomplishment. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200712/msg00000.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Public review begins for WS-ReliableMessaging errata The OASIS Web Services Reliable Messaging TC has approved a three-part errata package as a Committee Draft and submitted it for public review. The package includes errata for WS-ReliableMessaging 1.1, WS-ReliableMessaging Policy Assertion 1.1, and Web Services Make Connection 1.0. The review ends 17 Dec. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200712/msg00001.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Public review begins for XRI Resolution 2.0 The OASIS Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) TC has approved version 2.0 of the XRI Resolution as a Committee Draft and submitted it for public review. The XRI Resolution defines a simple generic format for resource description (XRDS documents), a protocol for obtaining XRDS documents from HTTP(S) URIs, and generic and trusted protocols for resolving XRIs. The review ends 1 Feb. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200712/msg00002.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Third public review begins for Code List Representation 1.0 The OASIS Code List Representation TC has disposed of comments from the second public review of version 1.0 of the Code List Representation (Genericode) and submitted it for a third, 15-day public review. The specification defines an XML format for interchange, documentation, and management of code lists (a.k.a. controlled vocabularies or coded value enumerations) in any processing context. All are invited to provide comments; this review ends 8 Dec. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200711/msg00009.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- ITU-T extension reduces the size of CAP messages The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) OASIS Standard was enlarged by a binary ASN.1 specification developed by the International Telecommunication Union's Standardization Sector (ITU-T). This enables the transport of CAP messages to VoIP terminals using H.323 and other systems. The OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee has adopted this extension to CAP, which is used by many public emergency services and land management agencies. http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/newslog/PermaLink,guid,1a2f8dc1-f37e-4e68-92a1-6bfdb0e 39c16.aspx http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X/e ------------------------------------------------------------------- Volunteers translate ODF into Russian Infra-Resource, Ltd has created an unofficial Russian translation of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) OASIS Standard version 1.0. ODF provides a format that enables users of varying office suites to freely exchange documents. The non-normative Russian translation is provided as an informational service to the global community. http://www.i-rs.ru/odf/translation ------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations open for LegalXML Steering Committee Beginning 10 Dec, the OASIS LegalXML Member Section will accept nominations for two seats on its Steering Committee. LegalXML brings legal and technical experts together to create standards for the electronic exchange of legal data. All LegalXML members are eligible to nominate or be nominated for the Steering Committee. Each successful candidate will serve a one-year term. Nominations will be accepted until 21 Dec, and elections will be held 26 Dec through 7 Jan. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200711/msg00013.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Submit abstracts for Open Standards 2008: Composability within SOA The deadline to submit papers for the annual OASIS event is 17 Dec. The Open Standards 2008 symposium will be held 28 April - 1 May, 2008 in Santa Clara, California, USA. http://events.oasis-open.org/home/symposium/2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates 7 Dec: Public review for Search Web Services discussion document closes http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200711/msg00003.html 10-13 Dec: Open CSA hosts free webinar series on SCA http://www.oasis-open.org/events/webinars/sca-2007.php 17 Dec: Deadline to submit papers for Open Standards 2008 symposium http://events.oasis-open.org/home/symposium/2008 Public review for WS-ReliableMessaging errata ends http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200712/msg00001.html 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 Nominations for LegalXML Steering Committee close http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200711/msg00013.html 1 Feb: XRI Resolution 2.0 public review ends http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200712/msg00002.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' symposium http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2007/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian. Volunteers to translate the newsletter into other languages are welcome; contact communications@oasis-open.org. Archives: http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_archive.php
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