OASIS News: 2 Oct 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:

* Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP) TC forms
* Jun Qian of Primeton elected to Technical Advisory Board (TAB)
* Members propose AMQP Bindings and Mappings TC 
* Members propose Public Administration Cloud Requirements (PACR) TC

* OASIS Standard vote opens for Test Assertions Model 1.0
* TC approves XACML 3.0 
* SAML Asynchronous Single Logout Profile public review begins
* AS4 Profile of ebMS 3.0 public review begins
* Cabral and Palmirani elected to LegalXML Steering Committee

* OASIS seeks Systems Administrator
* In'tl Cloud Symposium to feature updates on NSTIC and CAMP

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Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP) TC forms

This group will advance an interoperable protocol that cloud implementers can use to package and deploy their applications. CAMP defines interfaces for self-service provisioning, monitoring, and control. Based on REST, CAMP is expected to foster an ecosystem of common tools, plugins, libraries and frameworks. TC proposers include Cloudsoft, JumpSoft, Oracle, Red Hat, Software AG, Standing Cloud, and others. Jeff Mischkinsky of Oracle is the convener; a TC chair or two co-chairs will be elected at the first meeting, which will be held by teleconference on 23 Oct. All interested parties are invited to participate; contact join@oasis-open.org for details.

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

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Jun Qian of Primeton elected to Technical Advisory Board (TAB)

Dr. Qian joins the TAB in its mission to continually improve the standards development process and quality of OASIS Standards through the production of guidelines and educational materials. He represents Foundational Sponsor, Chinese Primeton Technology Company. His term extends to July 2014.

https://www.oasis-open.org/tab

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Members propose AMQP Bindings and Mappings TC 

All interested parties are asked to review and comment on a draft charter to establish the OASIS AMQP Bindings and Mappings Technical Committee. The group will define bindings of AMQP 1.0 core protocol to underlying transports other than TCP, to define mappings of the AMQP 1.0 core protocol to existing well-known programming APIs, and to define representations of the AMQP 1.0 message format in existing well-known languages. TC proposers include Foundational Sponsor,  Microsoft, and Sponsors, Red Hat, Software AG, VMware, and others. Laurie Bryson of JPMorgan Chase Bank serves as convener. The member comment period for this draft charter closes 15 Oct.

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201210/msg00000.html

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Members propose Public Administration Cloud Requirements (PACR) TC

The group will develop a set of common required functional elements and measurable criteria or qualities that should be present in cloud computing services or installations employed by public sector administrations. John Borras serves as convener. All interested parties are asked to review and comment on the PACR draft charter by 9 Oct.

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201209/msg00008.html

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OASIS Standard vote opens for Test Assertions Model 1.0

Balloting is now underway and will close 15 Oct. Test Assertions Model 1.0 specifies the structure and semantics of a measurable _expression_ for evaluating the adherence of an implementation to one or more normative statements in a specification. The Model allows for writing test assertions that bridge the narrative of a specification with the related test suite, acting as an intermediary step toward the development of executable test cases. The Model was developed by OASIS Sponsors, Axway, Fujitsu, Oracle, US NIST, and others. All organizational members of OASIS are encouraged to vote on Test Assertions Model 1.0; those who wish to discuss the ballot may do so through oasis-member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org.

http://t.co/bdDpMUT9

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TC approves XACML 3.0 

The new Committee Specification defines version 3.0 of the core XML schema for representing authorization and entitlement policies. Congratulations to TC Foundational Sponsors, IBM, Microsoft, and Primeton, and to Sponsors, Axiomatics, Boeing, CA Technologies, Cisco, EMC, Jericho, Oracle, Quest, Red Hat, SailPoint, US Veterans Health Administration, and ViewDS, and to all other XACML TC members. 

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201209/msg00008.html

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SAML Asynchronous Single Logout Profile public review begins

This document defines an extension to the SAML 2.0 Single Logout Protocol that allows the initiator to indicate that it does not expect to receive a response from the session authority. This improves user interface interoperability in deployments that want the identity provider to control the user experience during logout. The public review ends 28 Oct.

http://t.co/yQEm5vcg

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AS4 Profile of ebMS 3.0 public review begins

This B2B protocol uses modern underlying Web Services technology and is easier to implement for small and medium size enterprises. The public review ends 30 Nov.

http://t.co/ciPIX4ZP

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Cabral and Palmirani elected to LegalXML Steering Committee

Jim Cabral of MTG Management Consultants and Monica Palmirani of the University of Bologna have been elected to serve on the OASIS LegalXML Member Section Steering Committee. Their terms extend until Sept 2013.


https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/201209/msg00005.html

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OASIS seeks Systems Administrator

The consortium has a job opening for a Systems Administrator/Engineer with experience designing, deploying and maintaining IT systems from hardware up through the platform and application stack. The successful applicant will help OASIS move from a self-hosted to a managed-hosting environment. 

https://www.oasis-open.org/org/jobs/systems-administrator-systems-engineer

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In'tl Cloud Symposium to feature updates on NSTIC and CAMP

Jim Sheire, Senior Advisor in the US NSTIC National Program Office, will lay out the case for tackling cloud identity via a public-private partnership and detail how organizations can leverage the funded Identity Ecosystem pilot projects.  In addition, OASIS members will provide a preview of the newest and most relevant Cloud standardization projects, including CAMP, CloudAuthZ, and PACR.   Registration for the Symposium closes 5 Oct.

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

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Important dates:

9 Oct
Comments on proposed Public Administration Cloud Requirements (PACR) TC due
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201209/msg00008.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

15 Oct
OASIS Standard ballot closes for Test Assertions Model 1.0 
http://t.co/bdDpMUT9

Comments on proposed AMQP Bindings and Mappings TC due

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201210/msg00000.html

28 Oct
SAML Asynchronous Single Logout Profile public review ends 

http://t.co/yQEm5vcg

29-31 Oct 
OASIS hosts Emergency Standards Round-up at IAEM
https://www.oasis-open.org/events/edxl/2012/roundup

30 Nov
AS4 Profile of ebMS 3.0 public review ends 
http://t.co/ciPIX4ZP

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