Re: 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:

* Test Assertions Model 1.0 becomes OASIS Standard
* OASIS Standard vote opens for AMQP 1.0
* Members propose CloudAuthZ TC
* Members propose Privacy by Design TC
* XACML 3.0 public review begins


* KMIP 1.1 public reviews begin
* TC approves Transport Protocol Bindings for Energy Interoperation 
* Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) TC publishes errata
* European Union broadens policy to include industry consortia


* KMIP and SAML webinars available for download
* Sailpoint and SecureKey become newest OASIS Sponsors
* Members to gather at Cloud Expo

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Test Assertions Model 1.0 becomes OASIS Standard

The Model specifies the structure and semantics of a measurable _expression_ for evaluating the adherence of an implementation to normative statements in a specification. Congratulations to the Test Assertions Guidelines TC chair, Jacques Durand of Fujitsu, and to all TC participants including representatives of Axway, Fujitsu, Oracle, and US NIST for this accomplishment.


http://t.co/mBZUUdqd

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OASIS Standard vote opens for AMQP 1.0

The Advanced Message Queueing Protocol (AMQP) is a wire level messaging protocol that supports common middleware messaging interaction patterns: messaging, request/response, publish/subscribe, transactions, and store and forward. It allows middleware applications to communicate with each other without requiring the same infrastructure on both ends (i.e. it provides vendor neutral communications). AMQP 1.0 was developed by OASIS Foundationals, Microsoft and Primeton, and Sponsors, Axway, Kaazing, Progress Software, Red Hat, Software AG, VMware, Zenika, and others. All organizational members of OASIS are encouraged to vote on AMQP before 29 Oct; those who wish to discuss the ballot may do so through oasis-member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org.


http://t.co/Pcr7o347

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Members propose CloudAuthZ TC

All interested parties are asked to review and comment on a draft charter to establish the OASIS Cloud Authorization (CloudAuthZ) Technical Committee. The goal of CloudAuthZ is to enable greater control of the way cloud computing resources are used by allowing authorization policies to be enforced closer to the consumer. It will define a generalized model for context-based authorization--knowing when and where users are, what they are doing, which device they are using, etc., and applying this information to authorization decisions. TC Proposers include Sponsors, Axiomatics, Intel, Quest, RedHat, Sailpoint, and Yaana. Abbie Barbir of Bank of America serves as convener. The member comment period for this draft charter closes 17 Oct.


https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201210/msg00005.html

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Members propose Privacy by Design TC

All interested parties are asked to review and comment on a draft charter to establish the OASIS Privacy by Design Documentation for Software Engineers (PbD-SE) Technical Committee. The group will define governance and documentation standards where privacy is built directly into the design and operation, not only of technology, but also of operational systems, work processes, management structures, physical spaces and networked infrastructure. Dawn N. Jutla, PhD, of the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University serves as convener. The member comment period for this draft charter closes 17 Oct.


https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201210/msg00004.html

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XACML 3.0 public review begins

eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) 3.0 defines a core XML schema for representing authorization and entitlement policies. The public review ends 7 Dec.

http://t.co/4mxtpvvt


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KMIP 1.1 public reviews begin

The Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) establishes a single, comprehensive protocol for communication between enterprise key management servers and cryptographic clients. 


The public reviews for KMIP Specification 1.1 and for KMIP Profiles 1.1 both end 10 Dec.

http://t.co/KoQ4bpL7
http://t.co/5AqtpUjK

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TC approves Transport Protocol Bindings for Energy Interoperation 

The new Committee Specification defines energy interoperation services, payloads, and interaction patterns. Congratulations to TC Foundational Sponsor, IBM, and to Sponsors, EnerNOC, TIBCO, US NIST, and to all other Energy Interoperation TC members.


http://t.co/KMEbzfaS

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Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) TC publishes errata


WS-Trust 1.4 Errata, WS-SecurityPolicy 1.2 Errata, and WS-SecurityPolicy 1.3 Errata document errata for extensions to the WS-Security OASIS Standard. Congratulations to WS-SX TC members including Foundational Sponsors, IBM, ISIS Papyrus America, and Microsoft, and Sponsors, Axway, CA Technologies, EMC, Fujitsu, Nokia, Novell, Oracle, Ping Identity, Red Hat, SAP, Software AG, TIBCO, and the US Veterans Health Administration on this accomplishment.


http://t.co/MOT3xeXe

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European Union broadens policy to include industry consortia


The Council of the European Union adopted new rules to broaden outreach and collaboration among European member states and agencies, de jure standards organizations, and industry standards consortia including OASIS. The new policy explicitly embraces the use of appropriate consortia standards for public procurement and the inclusion of established global consortia in official programs and grants. It amends several directives, removing implications of exclusivity for de jure standards. 


https://www.oasis-open.org/news/pr/eu-reform

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KMIP and SAML webinars available for download

"Addressing the New Complexities in Key Management Interoperability: KMIP V. Next" was originally presented by the KMIP TC and "SAML: Right Here, Right Now" was originally presented by the Security Services TC on 25 Sept.


https://www.oasis-open.org/events/webinars/

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Sailpoint and SecureKey become newest OASIS Sponsors

SailPoint provides identity management solutions that help organizations mitigate risk, reduce IT costs, and ensure compliance. SailPoint IdentityIQ and SailPoint AccessIQ offer visibility into and control over user access to sensitive applications and data, both on-premises and in the cloud. Sailpoint is a Proposer of the CloudAuthZ TC.


http://www.sailpoint.com

SecureKey develops hardware and software solutions that extend the power of chip-based identity and payment technologies to online and mobile transactions. SecureKey uses strong cryptographic authentication to leverage existing investments in smartcard and mobile NFC technologies.


http://www.securekey.com 

New OASIS Contributors include APIphany, Carlos III University of Madrid, Cognizant, Eurotech, iFOSSF, Novetta, Palestinian Legislative Council, ShepHertz, and SSH.


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Members to gather at Cloud Expo

OASIS will be promoting our Cloud standards work at the upcoming Cloud Expo, 5-8 Nov, in Santa Clara, California. Members who are attending Cloud Expo--and those in the Santa Clara area--are invited to attend an informal meet-and-greet reception on Tuesday, 6 Nov. Contact dee.schur@oasis-open.org for details. To receive a free pass to the Expo (a $2,000 value), register using the promo code "oasisVIPgold".


http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/

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Important dates:

17 Oct
Comments close for CloudAuthZ proposed charter
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201210/msg00005.html


Comments close for PbD-SE proposed charter
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201210/msg00004.html

28 Oct
SAML Asynchronous Single Logout Profile public review ends


http://t.co/yQEm5vcg

29 Oct
OASIS Standard vote for AMQP 1.0 closes
http://t.co/Pcr7o347

29-31 Oct

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

5-8 Nov
Cloud Expo, Santa Clara, California
Free pass available with code: "oasisVIPgold".


http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/

6 Nov
Member reception at Cloud Expo, Santa Clara, California
RSVP: dee.schur@oasis-open.org


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

7 Dec
XACML 3.0 public review ends 
http://t.co/4mxtpvvt


10 Dec
Public reviews for KMIP Spec 1.1 and KMIP Profiles 1.1 end 
http://t.co/KoQ4bpL7
http://t.co/5AqtpUjK

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