Fw: [members] OASIS News: 2 July 2007

["Jeffrey A. Estefan" <jeffrey.a.estefan@jpl.nasa.gov>]

Colleagues,

With respect to item "Six new TCs form under Open CSA Member Section," 
below, we should see about possible engagement and alignment.  As I 
mentioned before, this body of work is another level of abstraction below 
our work but it would be worth participation/collaboration on our part.

Cheers...

  - Jeff E.

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> OASIS News
> 2 July 2007
>
> Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements,
> accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards
> consortium.
>
> In this issue:
> * New mission statement focuses on global information society
> * WS-SecurityPolicy becomes an OASIS Standard
> * Five new TCs form under Open CSA Member Section
> * Digital Signature Services eXtended (DSS-X) TC forms
> * OASIS Standard ballot on DITA 1.1 opens soon
> * Public review begins for Customer Information Quality (CIQ) 3.0
> * Video interview with OASIS CEO explores ROI of standards
> * OASIS announces Program Committee for Open Standards Forum
> * Consortium seeks research assistant for Cover Pages
>
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> New mission statement focuses on global information society
>
> In response to requests from members to broaden the consortium's
> positioning beyond "e-business", OASIS has edited its mission statement
> and tagline. The new mission statement, "OASIS drives the development,
> convergence, and adoption of open standards for the global information
> society", and tagline "Advancing open standards for the information
> society", will be featured throughout the OASIS web site and other
> materials.
>
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> WS-SecurityPolicy becomes an OASIS Standard
>
> Members have approved version 1.2 of WS-SecurityPolicy as an OASIS
> Standard. WS-SecurityPolicy defines a base set of assertions that describe
> how messages are to be secured in the WS-Policy framework. Congratulations
> to Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) TC co-chairs, Kelvin Lawrence of
> IBM and Chris Kaler of Microsoft, and to all WS-SX TC members for this
> accomplishment.
>
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00001.html
>
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> Six new TCs form under Open CSA Member Section
>
> Members of the OASIS Open CSA Member Section have organized six new TCs to
> advance development of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) family of
> specifications. SCA describes a model for building applications and
> systems using a service-oriented architecture. The new OASIS SCA Policy TC
> will be convened by Michael Rowley of BEA, the SCA Assembly TC by Martin
> Chapman of Oracle, the SCA Bindings TC by Mike Edwards of IBM, the SCA/J
> TC by Henning Blohm of SAP, the SCA BPEL TC by Mike Edwards of IBM and the
> SCA C/C++ TC by Bryan Aupperle of IBM. All these TCs welcome new
> participation.
>
> http://www.oasis-opencsa.org/
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200706/msg00014.html
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200706/msg00015.html
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00002.html
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00003.html
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00004.html
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00005.html
>
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> Digital Signature Services eXtended (DSS-X) TC forms
>
> Members of OASIS have organized a new TC to advance new profiles for the
> DSS OASIS Standard and maintain the specification. Proposers of the OASIS
> DSS-X TC include representatives of CATCert-Agencia Catalana de
> Certificacio, BEA, and others. Convened by Juan Carlos Cruellas of CANET,
> the TC's first meeting will be a teleconference on 23 July. New
> participants are welcome.
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200706/msg00012.html
>
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> OASIS Standard ballot on DITA 1.1 opens soon
>
> The OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture TC has submitted DITA
> version 1.1 to be considered as an OASIS Standard. DITA 1.1 advances a
> document creation and management specification that builds content reuse
> into the authoring process. On 16 July, a Call for Vote on DITA 1.1 will
> be issued to all OASIS member organizations. Members who wish to discuss
> this ballot may do so through member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org.
>
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00000.html
>
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> Public review begins for Customer Information Quality (CIQ) 3.0
>
> The OASIS CIQ TC has approved CIQ version 3.0 as a Committee Draft and
> submitted it for public review. CIQ provides a set of industry- and
> application-neutral XML specifications for representing, interoperating,
> and managing party (person/organization) centric information. The review
> ends 26 August.
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200706/msg00013.html
>
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> Video interview with OASIS CEO explores ROI of standards
>
> A 25-minute conversation between Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of
> OASIS, and Gregory Maciag, CEO of the ACORD insurance standards
> organization, is now available online. In the interview, Gannon discusses
> data integration, Composite Service Architecture, cross-industry
> applications, and the common ground of OASIS and ACORD standards.
>
> http://video.acord.org/?fr_story=9a4544ff30030fb5866b925099409f382410b832
>
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> OASIS announces Program Committee for Open Standards Forum
>
> Industry experts, Tim Jennings, Research Director for the Butler Group;
> Martin Raepple, Standards Architect at SAP; and Pim van der Eijk, European
> Representative for OASIS, will serve on the Programme Committee for OASIS'
> annual European Forum. The event, which will be held 29-30 October in
> London, will explore the theme, "Enabling Transitional Government
> Through Web Services and SOA." Members of the Programme Committee will be
> evaluating proposals for presentations and panel sessions that address
> standardisation for message security, reliable messaging, transaction,
> choreography and orchestration. The deadline to submit presentation
> abstracts is 13 July.
>
> http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2007/callforpresentations
>
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> Consortium seeks research assistant for Cover Pages
>
> Qualified individuals are encouraged to apply for a part-time position
> working with Robin Cover in the collection, editing, and publication of
> standards information for the Cover Pages web site
> (http://xml.coverpages.org/) and for the newsletter, XML Daily Newslink.
> This assistant will conduct research about XML standards activity, based
> upon prescribed research objectives, organizing the content in markup
> format suitable for publication.
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/jobs/cp-assistant.php
>
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>
> Important dates:
>
> 9 Jul:
>  Webinar series on OASIS security standards begin
>  http://www.oasis-open.org/events/webinars/security-2007.php
>
>  Discussion list on document standards interoperability closes
>  http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200704/msg00009.html
>
> 13 Jul:
>  Abstracts due for OASIS Open Standards Forum in London
>  http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2007/callforpresentations
>
> 16 Jul:
>  Code List Representation 1.0 public review closes
>  http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200705/msg00012.html
>
> 18 Jul:
>  Search Web Services TC holds first meeting
>  http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/search-ws/
>
> 26 Aug:
>  Customer Information Quality (CIQ) 3.0 public review closes
>  http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200706/msg00013.html
>
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>
> Recent press releases:
>
> OASIS Members Form Committee to Standardize Symmetric Encryption Key
> Management Across the Enterprise
> http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2007-06-25.php
>
> Members Approve WS-ReliableMessaging as OASIS Standard
> http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2007-06-21.php
>
> Members Approve Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) 1.1 as OASIS Standard
> http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2007-06-19.php
>
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>
> **Membership Tip #40**
>
> Organize an InterOp to demonstrate cross-vendor support for a spec.
> http://www.oasis-open.org/who/interop_demo_policy.php
>
>
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