OASIS News: 6 June 2012

[Carol Geyer <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

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:

* BIAS Biometric Identity Profile 1.0 becomes OASIS Standard
* WS-Security 1.1.1 becomes OASIS Standard
* Public Administration Cloud Requirements discussion underway
* Emergency Situation Reporting (EDXL-SitRep) 1.0 public review begins

* PMRM Privacy Reference Model 1.0 public review begins
* Public review underway for four KMIP key management documents
* XACML 3.0 access control public review begins
* Field Force Management 1.0 public review begins

* DocBook re-launches eLearning Subcommittee
* Board adds Interpretations and Whistleblower Policies
* Ballot for Board of Directors and TAB closes 15 Jun

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BIAS Biometric Identity Profile 1.0 becomes OASIS Standard

Members have approved the Biometric Identity Assurance Services (BIAS) SOAP Profile 1.0 as an OASIS Standard. The Profile specifies how to use XML-encoded SOAP messages to exchange biometric data and perform biometric-based identity operations. Congratulations to the BIAS TC co-chairs, Kevin Mangold of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cathy Tilton of Daon, and to all TC participants including representatives of OASIS Sponsors, Booz Allen Hamilton, US National Institutes of Health, US NIST, US Department of Defense, and others for this accomplishment.

http://t.co/fMOXchwg

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WS-Security 1.1.1 becomes OASIS Standard

Members have approved Web Services Security 1.1.1 as an OASIS Standard. The specification set integrates specific error corrections and editorial changes to WS-Security 1.1 and its token profiles. Congratulations to the WS-Security Maintenance TC chair, David Turner of Microsoft, and to all TC participants including representatives of OASIS Foundational Sponsors, IBM and Microsoft, and Sponsors, Fujitsu, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, TIBCO, US Department of Defense, and others for this accomplishment.

http://t.co/FEy4FGJY

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Public Administration Cloud Requirements discussion underway

Interest in forming a TC to define Public Administration Cloud Requirements (PACR) is being explored via a new discussion list. PACR proposes to draw together a common set of attributes and operational requirements that are relevant to public administrations, at each of the major service levels of cloud systems, and map them to existing open standards and published governmental works that supply methods of measurement and definition. The TC would develop a set of common required functional elements and measurable criteria that should be present in cloud computing services or installations employed by public administration entities. All interested parties are welcome to subscribe to this list and participate in the discussion.

https://www.oasis-open.org/news/announcements/new-discussion-list-opened-for-public-administration-cloud-requirements

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Emergency Situation Reporting (EDXL-SitRep) 1.0 public review begins

This specification describes a set of standard reports and elements that can be used for data sharing among emergency information systems that provide incident information for situation awareness on which incident command can base decisions. The public review remains open until 20 Jul.

http://t.co/NpEzUcgx

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PMRM Privacy Reference Model 1.0 public review begins

PMRM provides a model and a methodology for understanding and analyzing privacy policies and their privacy management requirements in defined use cases and for selecting the technical services that must be implemented to support privacy controls. PMRM is particularly relevant for use cases in which personal information flows across regulatory, policy, jurisdictional, and system boundaries. The public review remains open until 2 Jul.

http://t.co/NztBbdeL

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Public review underway for four KMIP key management documents

Version 1.1 of the KMIP Specification, Profile, Usage Guide, and Test Cases support a single, comprehensive protocol for communication between encryption systems and a broad range of new and legacy enterprise applications, including email, databases, and storage devices.This public review remains open until 19 Jun.

http://t.co/k2Dc1HwR

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XACML 3.0 access control public review begins

The newest version of the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) defines a core XML schema for representing authorization and entitlement policies. This public review ends 14 Jun.

http://t.co/HS6cE0h2

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Field Force Management 1.0 public review begins
 
This document describes the interface between Enterprise Resource Management Systems and Field Force Management Systems. It defines flexible mechanisms that enable Work Request modeling (data content, workflow), exchange, work history collection, and collection of data from the field and is adaptable to numerous industries. The public review ends 28 Jun.

http://t.co/stkIPVJz

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DocBook re-launches eLearning Subcommittee

The Subcommittee will develop and maintain official variants of DocBook in support of eLearning content, including online learning, instructor-led training, and other related educational materials. The group will address issues and enhancement requests that have arisen from experience with real-world DocBook and eLearning implementations. It will also establish best practices guidelines for applying DocBook markup to learning content. All interested parties are invited to join this work.

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=docbook-elearning

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Board adds Interpretations and Whistleblower Policies

The Interpretations Policy describes the process by which implementers may seek interpretation of OASIS Standards. The Whistleblower Policy provides instruction and protection for individuals who make allegations regarding potentially illegal or inappropriate conduct within OASIS. A minor revision to the IPR Policy has also been approved by the Board of Directors.

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201205/msg00018.html

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Ballot for Board of Directors and TAB closes 15 Jun

OASIS member organizations will elect six Board Directors from the following ten candidates: Carl Cargill of Adobe; Tony Giroti; Frederick Hirsch of Nokia; Jim Hughes of Microsoft; Gershon Janssen; Dawn Jutla of St. Mary's University; Paul Lipton of CA Technologies; Jeff Mischkinsky of Oracle; Jun Qian of Primeton; and Zhexuan Song of Huawei. Candidates have provided bios and answered a series of questions submitted by members. All Foundational, Sponsor, and Contributor members are strongly encouraged to review this information and participate in the election process before the 15 Jun deadline.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201205/msg00008.html

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Important dates:

12 Jun
OASIS participates in ODCA Industry Standards Development panel
http://www.opendatacenteralliance.org/forecast2012/agenda

14 Jun
OASIS presents on TOSCA at Cloud Expo East, NYC
http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/event/session/1609

WS-I Steering Committee elections close

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201205/msg00002.html

XACML 3.0 access control public review ends
http://t.co/HS6cE0h2

15 Jun
Ballots for Board of Directors and TAB close
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201205/msg00008.html

19 Jun

KMIP 1.1 public review ends
http://t.co/k2Dc1HwR

28 Jun
Field Force Management 1.0 public review ends
http://t.co/stkIPVJz

2 Jul

PMRM Privacy Reference Model 1.0 public review ends
http://t.co/NztBbdeL

20 Jul
Emergency Situation Reporting (EDXL-SitRep) 1.0 public review ends
http://t.co/NpEzUcgx

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