OASIS News: 18 Sept 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:

* Webinar to discuss future of SAML 
* CMIS 1.1 public review begins
* WS-HumanTask 1.1 public review begins
* KMIP TC publishes four documents
* Reference Architecture Foundation for SOA 1.0 public review begins



* JumpSoft and Standing Cloud become newest Sponsor members
* European Commission Head to Address Int'l Cloud Symposium 
* CMIS TC members co-author new book

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Webinar to discuss future of SAML 

"SAML -- Right Here, Right Now" will provide insights into the TC's plans to make implementing SAML easier, more manageable and secure. The enormously successful standard for Web Single Sign-on and Identity Federation is in use around the world in configurations ranging from a single enterprise to country scale federations. The TC webinar will be held on 25 Sept. There is no cost to attend, however, advance registration is required.


https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/661177496


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CMIS 1.1 public review begins

Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) is a Web services interface specification that enables greater interoperability of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems. CMIS uses Web services and Web 2.0 interfaces to enable rich information to be shared across Internet protocols in vendor-neutral formats, among document systems, publishers and repositories, within one enterprise and between companies. CMIS 1.1 adds a JSON browser binding as well as type mutability, secondary object type, retention and hold support, and other features. The public review ends 10 Oct.

http://t.co/U9aLfIs8


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WS-HumanTask 1.1 public review begins

Produced by the BPEL4People TC, this document defines human tasks, as part of business processes, including their properties, behavior, and operations. It includes a coordination protocol for controlling autonomy and life cycle of service-enabled human tasks in an interoperable manner. The public review ends 26 Sept.


http://t.co/rmVog5C1


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KMIP TC publishes four documents

Versions 1.1 of the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP), Profiles, Usage Guide, and Test Cases have been approved by the TC. KMIP is a single, comprehensive protocol for communication between clients that request any of a wide range of encryption keys and servers that store and manage those keys. An overview of this work will be provided in the KMIP V.Next webinar on 25 Sept. (

http://t.co/jVcFZhy2)

http://t.co/fpzczPpU


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SOA-RAF 1.0 public review begins

Reference Architecture Foundation for SOA d

escribes the foundation upon which concrete service oriented architectures can be built. It has three main views: Participation in a SOA Ecosystem; Realization of a SOA Ecosystem; and Ownership in a SOA Ecosystem. The public review ends 14 Oct.

http://t.co/7jjvCuyf


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JumpSoft and Standing Cloud become newest Sponsor members

JumpSoft provides application management software and solutions that extend control, management and automation to the application and database level across the enterprise. 

http://www.jumpsoft.net/

Standing Cloud delivers an application marketplace and management platform for cloud service providers, ISVs and other technology solution providers.

http://www.standingcloud.com/

JumpSoft and Standing Cloud are co-proposers of the CAMP TC.


New OASIS Contributor members include SSH, iFOSSF, and ShepHertz. Welcome all!

https://www.oasis-open.org/member-roster

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European Commission Head to Address Int'l Cloud Symposium

Ken Ducatel, Head of Unit for Cloud Computing in the European Commission, will discuss actions being taken to address key issues that stakeholders have identified as major barriers to cloud, such as trust and security. The Symposium will also offer an overview of the new European Cloud Partnership program to put Europe's public authorities at the forefront of cloud adoption by developing common requirements. The event will be held 10-12 Oct in Washington, DC at the Microsoft offices. Sponsors include IBM and CA Technologies.

https://www.oasis-open.org/events/cloud/2012

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CMIS TC members co-author new book

The first four chapters of CMIS and Apache Chemistry in Action by Florian Müller, Jay Brown, and Jeff Potts is now available via a MEAP release. The book covers CMIS basics including the CMIS domain model, metadata, and query. OASIS members receive a 37% discount (use code 12cmisoa when ordering).

http://www.manning.com/mueller/


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Important dates:

21 Sept

TAB Special Election closes
https://www.oasis-open.org/board/election-process

25 Sept
"KMIP V.Next" webinar (advance registration required)

http://t.co/jVcFZhy2

"SAML--Right Here, Right Now" webinar (advance registration required)
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/661177496

26 Sept
WS-HumanTask 1.1 public review ends 
http://t.co/rmVog5C1

1 Oct

IAEM Emergency Standards Round-up participation deadline
https://www.oasis-open.org/events/edxl/2012/roundup

AMQP Steering Committee nominations deadline

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201209/msg00002.html


10-12 Oct
OASIS hosts International Cloud Symposium in Washington, DC.
https://www.oasis-open.org/events/cloud/2012


10 Oct
CMIS 1.1 public review ends 
http://t.co/U9aLfIs8

13 Oct
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) 1.0 public review ends
http://t.co/qLn9PrLg

14 Oct
Reference Architecture Foundation for SOA 1.0 public review ends 

http://t.co/7jjvCuyf

26 Oct - 1 Nov
OASIS hosts Emergency Standards Round-up at IAEM
https://www.oasis-open.org/events/edxl/2012/roundup

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