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Subject: OASIS News: 1 Nov 2010


OASIS News
1 Nov 2010

Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements,
accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards
consortium.

In this issue:

* XSPA Profile of WS-Trust 1.0 becomes OASIS Standard
* XRD 1.0 becomes OASIS Standard
* SOA Repository Artifact Model and Protocol (S-RAMP) TC Forms
* Members Propose Business Document Exchange (BusDox) TC
* DITA 1.2 ballot opens soon
* The State of ODF Interoperability 1.0 public review begins
* SOA End-to-End Resource Planning 1.0 public review begins
* OAXAL webinar to provide overview of localization specification
* OASIS will participate in NIST Cloud Computing Workshop
* CIQ presents to ISO TC 211

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XSPA Profile of WS-Trust 1.0 becomes OASIS Standard

Members have approved the Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy
Authorization (XSPA) Profile of WS-Trust for Healthcare version 1.0 as
an OASIS Standard. This profile describes
how to leverage the WS-Trust OASIS Standard to satisfy
information-centric security requirements for healthcare.
Congratulations to the XSPA TC co-chairs, David Staggs of the US
Veterans Health Administration and Anil Saldhana of Red Hat, and to
all TC participants including representatives of IBM, Avaya, Cisco,
Jericho Systems, Red Hat, U.S. Veterans Health Administration, and
others who contributed to this accomplishment.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201011/msg00000.html

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XRD 1.0 becomes OASIS Standard

Members have approved the Extensible Resource Descriptor (XRD) version
1.0  as an OASIS Standard. XRD defines a simple generic format for
describing resources. Congratulations to the XRI TC co-chairs, Peter
Davis of Neustar and Drummond Reed, and to all TC participants
including representatives of AOL, Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton,
Neustar, Nomura Research Institute, and others who contributed to this
accomplishment.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201011/msg00001.html

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SOA Repository Artifact Model and Protocol (S-RAMP) TC Forms

All interested parties are invited to participate in the new OASIS
S-RAMP Technical Committee which will work to define a common data
model for SOA repositories. The TC's work will facilitate various
activities across the life cycle of an SOA artifact, including the
design, assembly, quality assurance, deployment, and runtime operation
of SOA-based applications and business processes. TC proposers include
representatives of OASIS Foundational Sponsor, IBM, as well as Active
Endpoints, HP, Red Hat, Software AG, and others.  Chris Peltz of HP is
the convener; a TC chair or two co-chairs will be elected at the first
meeting, which will be held on 14 Dec at the TIBCO offices in Palo
Alto, California, USA. (A phone bridge will be provided for those
unable to attend in person.) Contact join@oasis-open.org for details
on participation

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201010/msg00003.html

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Members Propose Business Document Exchange (BusDox) TC

All interested parties are asked to review and comment on a draft
charter to establish the OASIS BusDox Technical Committee. BusDox will
establish profiles for a lightweight and federated document transport
infrastructure supporting secure and reliable exchange of electronic
business documents. Mikkel Hippe Brun of Tradeshift serves as the
convener.  The member comment period for this draft charter closes 10
Nov.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201010/msg00011.html

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DITA 1.2 ballot opens soon

OASIS Standard balloting for the Darwin Information Typing
Architecture (DITA) version 1.2 will open 16 Nov. DITA 1.2 defines a
set of document types for authoring and organizing topic-oriented
information and a set of mechanisms for combining, extending, and
constraining document types. The specification was developed by
representatives of OASIS Foundational Sponsors, IBM and ISIS Papyrus,
as well as Adobe, Boeing, Cisco, Citrix, Comtech, Intel, MadCap,
Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle, PTC, Quark, SAP, US Department of Defense,
US Veterans Health Administration, and others. All organizational
members of OASIS are encouraged to vote on DITA 1.2; those who wish to
discuss the ballot may do so through
member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201011/msg00002.html

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The State of ODF Interoperability 1.0 public review begins

This specification describes areas for improving interoperability
among applications that support the OpenDocument Format (ODF). This
public review closes on 4 Nov.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201010/msg00007.html

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SOA End-to-End Resource Planning 1.0 public review begins

SOA-EERP enables improved eBusiness process and resource planning at
design and run time.  This public review closes 11 Nov.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201010/msg00010.html

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OAXAL webinar to provide overview of localization specification

The Open Architecture for XML Authoring and Localization (OAXAL) TC
will host a free, 45-minute webinar on the OAXAL Reference Model on
Tuesday, 16 Nov. Based on SOA principles, OAXAL provides a
well-defined template of how to design and implement an open
standards-based architecture for XML authoring and localization. All
are welcome to attend; advance registration is necessary.

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/334724681

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OASIS will participate in NIST Cloud Computing Workshop

Jerry Smith of the U.S. Department of Defense will represent OASIS on
a panel at the Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop hosted by the U.S.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 4-5 Nov in
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.  The workshop will provide information on
NIST's Cloud Computing Roadmap strategy and its efforts to help
develop open standards for interoperability, portability and security
in cloud computing.

http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/cloudworkshopii.cfm

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CIQ presents to ISO TC 211

Ram Kumar, chair of the OASIS Customer Information Quality (CIQ) TC,
will present information on the CIQ international address
specification to the ISO TC 211/19160 project team on 6 Dec in
Canberra, Australia.  ISO TC 211 is working to establish a structured
set of standards in the field of digital geographic information.

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq/

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Important Dates

1-3 Nov
IAEM hosts OASIS Emergency Standards Interop in Texas
http://events.oasis-open.org/home/IAEMInterop/2010

4 Nov
The State of ODF Interoperability 1.0 public review closes
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201010/msg00007.html

4-5 Nov
OASIS participates in NIST Cloud Computing Workshop
http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/cloudworkshopii.cfm

9 Nov
Legal XML co-sponsors Open Government Workshop at Stanford
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/law/forms/opengov.fb

11 Nov
SOA End-to-End Resource Planning 1.0 public review ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201010/msg00010.html

16 Nov
DITA 1.2 ballot opens
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201011/msg00002.html

OAXAL TC hosts free webinar on localization spec
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/334724681

23 Nov
WS-Calendar 1.0 public review ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201009/msg00011.html

24 Nov
UBL 2.1 public review ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201009/msg00012.html

6 Dec
CIQ presents to ISO TC 211
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq/

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