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Subject: OASIS News: 17 Jul 2008
OASIS News 17 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 creates discussion list on Adopting SOA for Telecom * WS-Federation 1.2 public review begins * OASIS updates TC Process * Experts from UK's NHS and ENISA will keynote at Security Forum * US Veterans Health Admin becomes newest OASIS Sponsor member ------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS creates discussion list on Adopting SOA for Telecom A new mailing list for members and non-members explores a proposal to form a TC on Adopting SOA for Telecom. The new TC would identify current limitations of SOA technology in support of Telecom requirements. Issues such as testability, scalability, Service Level Agreements (SLA), reliability, support for session interactions, event based interactions, service ontologies, service failure modes and the marrying of IMS and SOA technologies will be addressed. Proposers include representatives from Foundational Sponsors, IBM and Oracle, as well as Nortel; Abbie Barbir of Nortel is designated as the discussion leader. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00007.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- WS-Federation 1.2 public review begins Developed by the OASIS Web Services Federation (WSFED) TC, WS-Federation defines mechanisms to allow different security realms to federate, so that authorized access to resources managed in one realm can be provided to security principals whose identities and attributes are managed in other realms. This public review ends 14 Sept. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00008.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS updates TC Process Necessitated by recent revisions to the OASIS IPR Policy, two defined terms have been added to the TC Process. "OASIS Draft Deliverable" applies to Working Drafts, Committee Drafts, and Public Review Drafts. "OASIS Final Deliverable" encompasses Committee Specifications, OASIS Standards, and Approved Errata. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/chairs/200807/msg00000.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Experts from UK's NHS and ENISA will keynote at Security Forum Mark Ferrar of the U.K. National Health Service (NHS) and Giles Hogben of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) will provide keynote addresses at the upcoming Open Standards Forum hosted by OASIS IDtrust. "Security Challenges for the Information Society" will be the theme of the event, which will be held 30 Sept through 3 Oct at Ditton Manor near London. Forum sponsors include Axiomatics, CA, IBM, Nortel, Oracle, Primeton, and Sun Microsystems. Registration is now open for this event. http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008/programme ------------------------------------------------------------------- US Veterans Health Administration becomes newest OASIS Sponsor member VHA serves the needs of America's veterans by providing primary care, specialized care, and related medical and social support services. Members who would like to invite VHA to participate in specific Committees should contact member-services@oasis-open.org. http://www1.va.gov/health/index.asp ------------------------------------------------------------------- **Encourage colleagues to subscribe to OASIS News by emailing news-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: 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 14 Sept WS-Federation 1.2 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00008.html 30 Sept OASIS Telecom hosts 'Adopting SOA in Telecommunications' Workshop http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008/workshop 1-3 Oct OASIS IDtrust hosts 'Security Challenges for the Info Society' Forum http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Russian. 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