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Subject: OASIS News: 5 April 2011


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

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In this Issue:

* Nominations open for OASIS Board of Directors and TAB
* TAB drafts interoperability guidelines
* Two SAML 2.0 public reviews begin
* ebXML Messaging Services 3.0 public review begins
* TC approves SKSML 1.0 as Committee Specification
* TC approves OpenDocument 1.2 as Committee Specification
* TC approves SAML Algorithm Support Profile as Committee Specification
* Liscia to speak at METERINGChina
* LegalXML elects new Steering Committee members
* OASIS launches LinkedIn group
* OASIS explores geothermal data standardization

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Nominations open for OASIS Board of Directors and TAB

Members will elect five candidates for seats on the OASIS Board of
Directors and three candidates for seats on the Technical Advisory
Board. Each will serve a two-year term beginning July 2011. All
members are encouraged to consider serving in these positions or
nominating qualified candidates. Nominations close 12 May.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201103/msg00010.html

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TAB drafts interoperability guidelines

Three draft documents from the Technical Advisory Board are aimed at
assisting TCs with conformance, testability, and interoperability. The
guidelines may form the basis for more formal requirements on TCs in
the future. Member feedback will ensure this information is in line
with best and current TC practices. The deadline to provide comments
to the TAB is 27 May.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201103/msg00007.html

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Two SAML public reviews begin

The Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 Change Notify
Protocol 1.0 describes request and response messages for informing
SAML endpoints about available changes to subjects and attributes
associated with subjects. The public review ends 4 May.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201104/msg00002.html

The SAML Session Token Profile 1.0 defines a format for communicating
security session state based on the SAML Assertion. It also specifies
two different mechanisms for communicating this information between
servers via a standard Web browser. This public review ends 1 May.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201104/msg00000.html

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ebXML Messaging Services 3.0 public review begins

Part 2, Advanced Features of the ebMS 3.0 Core Specification specifies
advanced functionality for message service configuration, message
bundling, messaging across intermediaries (multi-hop) and transfer of
(compressed) messages as series of smaller message fragments. The
public review ends 18 April.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201104/msg00001.html

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TC approves SKSML 1.0 as Committee Specification

Members of the Enterprise Key Management Infrastructure (EKMI) TC have
approved the Symmetric Key Services Markup Language (SKSML) 1.0 as a
Committee Specification. SKML is an XML-based messaging protocol by
which applications executing on computing devices may request and
receive symmetric key-management services from centralized
key-management servers, securely, over networks. Congratulations to TC
co-chairs, Timothy Bruce of CA Technologies and Anil Saldhana of Red
Hat and to all EKMI TC participants.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201103/msg00002.html

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TC approves OpenDocument 1.2 as Committee Specification

Members of the OpenDocument TC have approved the Open Document Format
(ODF) for Office Applications version 1.2 as a Committee
Specification.  ODF 1.2 specifies the characteristics of XML-based
applications and the characteristics of software applications that
read, write and process such documents.  Congratulations to TC
co-chairs, Michael Brauer of Oracle and Rob Weir of IBM, and to all
ODF TC participants.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201103/msg00003.html

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TC approves SAML Profile for Algorithm Support as Committee Specification

Members of the Security Services (SAML) TC have approved the SAML 2.0
Metadata Profile for Algorithm Support as a Committee Specification.
The profile includes an element allowing entities to describe the
algorithms for XML Encryption and Signature metadata that they
support. Congratulations to TC co-chairs, Thomas Hardjono of M.I.T.
and Nate Klingenstein of Internet2, and to all SAML TC participants.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201103/msg00004.html

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Liscia to speak at METERINGChina conference

OASIS executive director, Laurent Liscia, will present on "The Need
for an Open, Standardized IT Architecture for Smart Grid" at this
smart metering and data management event in China. OASIS is
cosponsoring the conference, which will be held 19-21 April in
Guangzhou, China. Members receive a discount off registration.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201103/msg00006.html

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LegalXML elects new Steering Committee members

Monica Palmirani of the University of Bologna School of Law and Robert
O’Brien have been elected to serve one-year terms on the LegalXML
Member Section Steering Committee. LegalXML produces technical
specifications that support implementation of XML technology in
electronic legal documents, records, and information exchanges.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201103/msg00008.html

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OASIS opens LinkedIn group

OASIS has opened its LinkedIn Group to the public. The "Discussions"
section of this Group can be used for building support for new work at
OASIS, identifying gaps where standards are needed, and promoting
adoption of existing OASIS work in the international marketplace. The
"Promotions" section may be used by OASIS members to promote their
corporate webinars, events, products, or other announcements relevant
to OASIS standards.

http://linkd.in/OASISopen

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OASIS explores geothermal data standardization

A new OASIS LinkedIn Group Discussion has been started to determine
the feasibility, and possible scope, of an open standards project for
geothermal asset exploration, measurement and power generation. All
interested parties are invited to comment.

http://linkd.in/OASIS-geothermal

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Important dates:

12 Apr
Public Review for Biometric Identity Assurance Services (BIAS) SOAP ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201102/msg00002.html

18 Apr
ebXML Messaging Services 3.0 public review ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201104/msg00001.html

19-21 Apr
Liscia speaks at METERINGChina
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201103/msg00006.html

20 Apr
Paper submission deadline for ICAIL2011 conference
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201103/msg00003.html

1 May
SAML Session Token Profile public review ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201104/msg00000.html

4 May
SAML Change Notify Protocol public review ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201104/msg00002.html

11-13 May
OASIS presents at WCO conference
https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/index.php?eventid=18357&;

12 May
Nominations close for OASIS Board and TAB
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201103/msg00010.html

27 May
Member review ends for TAB interoperability and testing guidelines
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201103/msg00007.html

10 Jun
LegalXML sponsors tutorial at ICAIL 2011 conference
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201103/msg00007.html

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