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Subject: OASIS News: 7 Jul 2008
OASIS News 7 Jul 2008 Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium. ------------------------------------------------------------------- In this issue: * OASIS announces results of Board and TAB elections * Registration opens for OASIS Security Forum near London * OASIS Telecom to host 'Adopting SOA' Workshop * DITA Adoption Committee forms * Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy (XSPA) TC forms * SOA End-to-End Resource Planning (SOA-EERP) TC forms * UBL German Localization Subcommittee forms * Members seek feedback on WS-DD TC draft charter * User Interface Markup Language (UIML) public review begins * WS Secure Exchange TC submits errata for public review * WebCGM 2.1 public review begins ------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS announces results of Board and TAB elections Members elected Bob Freund of Hitachi and Jim Hughes of Microsoft and reelected Bob Glushko of the University of California at Berkeley, Frederick Hirsch of Nokia, Paul Knight of Nortel, and Jeff Mischkinsky of Oracle to the OASIS Board of Directors. Patrick Gannon received sufficient votes for an elected Board seat but withdrew his candidacy for personal reasons. The new Board members will be seated on 31 Jul. Members also elected Toby Considine of the University of North Carolina and reelected Abbie Barbir of Nortel, Jacques Durand of Fujitsu, and Andy Lee of Changfeng Open Standards Platform Software Alliance to the Technical Advisory Board. The new TAB members will be seated on 1 Aug. OASIS expresses deep appreciation to Ed Cobb of BEA for his guidance on the Board of Directors since 2002. A special note of appreciation also goes to Patrick Gannon for his past service as Board Director, President, and CEO. The consortium also recognizes Bill Barnhill of Booz Allen Hamilton for his long-time participation on the TAB. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200807/msg00000.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration opens for OASIS Security Forum near London An outstanding line-up of speakers will address 'Security Challenges for the Information Society' at the annual OASIS European event, which will be held 30 Sept-3 Oct at the historic Ditton Manor, near London. The event will provide a unique opportunity to explore the current and future state of security services, standards and products. Discounts are offered for OASIS members, groups, and all those who register by 29 Aug. The Security Forum is sponsored by Axiomatics, CA, IBM, OASIS IDTrust, Nortel, Oracle, Primeton, and Sun Microsystems. http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Telecom to host 'Adopting SOA' Workshop The OASIS Telecom Member Section will host a workshop to discuss the current limitations of adopting SOA in the telecommunications field. The event will be held on 30 Sept in conjunction with the OASIS Security Forum near London. Delegates to the Security Forum will be able to register for the Telecom Workshop at no additional cost; others are welcome to register for the Telecom Workshop alone. The event is sponsored by Nortel and IBM. http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008/workshop ------------------------------------------------------------------- DITA Adoption Committee forms All interested parties are invited to participate in the new OASIS DITA Adoption Committee, which will work to educate the marketplace on the value of the DITA OASIS Standard for document creation and management. By raising awareness of the benefits offered by DITA, the Committee expects the demand for DITA-conforming products and services to increase, resulting in a greater choice of tools and platforms and an expanded DITA community. Proposers include representatives of OASIS Foundational Sponsors, IBM and Oracle, as well as Sponsor member, Comtech, and others. JoAnn Hackos of Comtech serves as convenor; a Committee chair will be elected at the first meeting, which will be held by teleconference on 28 Jul. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200806/msg00015.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy Authorization (XSPA) TC forms All interested parties are invited to participate in the new OASIS Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy Authorization (XSPA) Technical Committee, which will work to define a mechanism for healthcare enterprises to exchange privacy policies, consent directives and authorizations in an interoperable manner. The XSPA profile will require the participation of subject matter experts in several areas, including WS-Federation, SAML, and WS-Trust. XSPA TC proposers include representatives of OASIS Foundational Sponsor, IBM, and Sponsors, Cisco, Red Hat, US Veterans Health Administration (VA), and others. David Staggs of the US VA serves as convenor; a Committee chair will be elected at the first meeting, which will be held by teleconference on 8 Aug. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00002.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- SOA End-to-End Resource Planning (SOA-EERP) TC forms All interested parties are invited to participate in the new OASIS Service-Oriented Architecture End-to-End Resource Planning (SOA-EERP) Technical Committee, which will focus on enabling improved eBusiness process and resource planning at both design and run times. The group will work to define the framework for representing business process service rating terms, such as cost, time, value, etc. The TC intends to affiliate with the OASIS ChangFeng Open Standards Lab (COSL) Member Section. TC proposers include representatives of Nortel and other organizations. Andy Lee of ChangFeng Alliance serves as convenor; a Committee chair will be elected at the first meeting, which will be held by teleconference on 6 Aug. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200806/msg00017.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- UBL German Localization Subcommittee forms The OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) TC has formed a subcommittee to translate Business Information Entity (BIE) names and their descriptions for the UBL International Data Dictionary (IDD) into German. Everyone interested in UBL who speaks German is welcome to participate. Karsten Tolle of Document Engineering Services serves as subcommittee chair. http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ubl-delsc/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Members seek feedback on WS-DD TC draft charter All interested parties are asked to review and comment on a draft charter to establish the OASIS Web Services Discovery and Web Services Devices Profile (WS-DD) TC. WS-DD proposes to define a lightweight, dynamic, composable discovery protocol to locate Web services. A binding of SOAP to the User Datagram Protocol, including message patterns, addressing requirements, and security considerations, is also planned. WS-DD TC proposers include representatives of CA, Microsoft, Nortel, Novell, Red Hat, Progress Software, Ricoh, Software AG, and others. The comment period for this draft charter closes 21 Jul. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00006.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- User Interface Markup Language (UIML) public review begins Developed by the OASIS UIML TC, version 4.0 of the UIML provides a highly device-independent method to describe a user interface. This public review ends 21 Aug. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200806/msg00013.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- WS Secure Exchange TC submits errata for public review The OASIS Web Services Secure Exchange TC has submitted WS-Trust 1.3 Errata, WS-SecurityPolicy 1.2 Errata, and WS-SecureConversation 1.3 Errata for public review. The documents define WS-Security extensions and policies to enable the trusted exchange of multiple SOAP messages. All three public reviews end 21 Jul. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00005.html http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00004.html http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00003.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- WebCGM 2.1 public review begins Developed by the OASIS CGM Open WebCGM TC, WebCGM is a profile of the Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) ISO standard for the interchange of 2D vector and mixed vector/raster graphics. WebCGM is optimized for Web applications in technical illustration, electronic documentation, geophysical data visualization, and similar fields. This public review ends 12 Jul and is limited in scope to changes made from a previous review. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200806/msg00016.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- **Encourage colleagues to subscribe to OASIS News by emailing news-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: 5 Jul EDXL-RM 1.0 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200806/msg00012.html 8 Jul Reference Architecture for SOA 1.0 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200805/msg00003.html 11 Jul First meeting of OASIS SET TC (teleconference) http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200806/msg00002.html 12 Jul WebCGM 2.1 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200806/msg00016.html 14 Jul First meeting of OASIS OAXAL TC (teleconference) http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200806/msg00008.html 21 Jul Deadline to submit feedback on WS-DD TC draft charter http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00006.html Public reviews for WS Secure Exchange errata documents ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00005.html http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00004.html http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00003.html 28 Jul First meeting of DITA Adoption Committee (teleconference) http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200806/msg00015.html 6 Aug First meeting of SOA-EERP TC (teleconference) http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200806/msg00017.html 8 Aug First meeting of XSPA TC (teleconference) http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00002.html 12 Aug Public review for three WS-TX specs ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200806/msg00010.html Public review for Subject Profiles for SAML 1.1 Assertions ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200806/msg00009.html 21 Aug UIML 4.0 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200806/msg00013.html 29 Aug Deadline for OASIS Security Forum early-bird discount http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008/registration ebMS Transport Binding for DSS v1.0 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200805/msg00013.html 30 Sept OASIS Telecom hosts 'Adopting SOA in Telecommunications' Workshop http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008/workshop 1-3 Oct OASIS hosts London Forum: Security Challenges for the Info Society http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Russian. 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