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Subject: OASIS News: 3 Sept 2008
OASIS News 3 Sept 2008 Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium. ------------------------------------------------------------------- In this issue: * Solution Deployment Descriptor (SDD) becomes an OASIS Standard * OASIS Standard vote on UOML 1.0 opens soon * Customer Information Quality (CIQ) 3.0 public review begins * Members seek feedback on ODF Interoperability TC draft charter * Robin Cover is named OASIS Director of Information Services * TC Scheduler Workbook is now available * Important dates ------------------------------------------------------------------- Solution Deployment Descriptor (SDD) becomes an OASIS Standard Members have approved SDD version 1.0 as an OASIS Standard. SDD defines a standardized way to express software installation characteristics required for lifecycle management in a multi-platform environment Congratulations to SDD TC chair, Brent Miller of IBM, and to all TC participants including representatives of IBM, Sun Microsystems, CA, Fujitsu, SAP AG, and SAS Institute for this accomplishment. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200809/msg00000.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Standard vote on UOML 1.0 opens soon Balloting for the Unstructured Operation Markup Language (UOML) Part 1 version 1.0 will be held 16-30 Sept. UOML defines a markup language for unstructured document operation. The specification was developed by representatives of Primeton Technologies, Avaya, and others. All organizational members of OASIS are encouraged to vote on UOML; those who wish to discuss this ballot may do so through member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200809/msg00001.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Customer Information Quality (CIQ) 3.0 public review begins CIQ 3.0 defines Name (xNL), Address (xAL), Name and Address (xNAL), and Party Information (xPIL) specifications. This public review ends 13 Sept. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200808/msg00010.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Members seek feedback on ODF Interoperability TC draft charter All interested parties are asked to review and comment on a draft charter to establish the OASIS Open Document Format Interoperability and Conformance (OIC) TC. The new group intends to produce materials and host events to help implementers create applications that conform to the ODF OASIS Standard and that are able to interoperate. OIC TC proposers include representatives of IBM, Sun Microsystems, Google, Novell, US Department of Defense, and others. The comment period for this draft charter closes 8 Sept. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200808/msg00009.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Cover is named OASIS Director of Information Services Robin has provided support and guidance to the consortium since 1998--and to the field of structured information standards for more than three decades. In addition to serving as editor of The Cover Pages and XML Daily Newslink, Robin plays a major role at OASIS in ensuring open access to information and support for the standards development process. He provides requirements analysis and conceptual model design to support internal and external applications conforming to Web Architecture best practices. http://www.oasis-open.org/who/staff.php#cover ------------------------------------------------------------------- TC Scheduler Workbook is now available This new resource makes it easy to calculate timelines for starting TCs and for moving specifications through public reviews and OASIS Standard ballots. Produced by Mary McRae, OASIS director of TC Administration, the Workbook includes two spreadsheets and a video tutorial. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/chairs/200808/msg00001.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- **Encourage colleagues to subscribe to OASIS News by emailing news-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: 13 Sept Customer Information Quality (CIQ) 3.0 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200808/msg00010.html 14 Sept WS-Federation 1.2 public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00008.html 16-18 Sept Web Services Discovery and Devices Profile TC holds first meeting http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00012.html 18 and 23 Sept DITA and XLIFF webinars http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/200808/msg00000.html 23 Sept Symmetric Key Services Markup Language (SKSML) public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00011.html Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00009.html 29 Sept Identity Metasystem Interoperability (IMI) TC holds first meeting http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200808/msg00004.html 30 Sept OASIS Telecom hosts 'Adopting SOA in Telecommunications' Workshop http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008/workshop OASIS Standard ballot for UOML 1.0 closes http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200809/msg00001.html 1-3 Oct OASIS IDtrust hosts 'Security Challenges for the Info Society' Forum http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008 8 Oct Unstructured Info Management Architecture public review ends http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200808/msg00003.html 9-10 Dec WMO, ITU, and OASIS host CAP public warning workshop in Geneva http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/200808/msg00002.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Chinese, Italian, 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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