OASIS News
17 July 2006
Welcome to OASIS News, a weekly update of announcements,
accomplishments, and activities for the international
standards
consortium.
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Balloting Opens for WSDM 1.1 as OASIS Standard
Consortium members are asked to vote on a set of Web
Services
Distributed Management (WSDM) v1.1 specifications that have
been put
forth for consideration as an OASIS Standard. WSDM enables
management
applications to be built using Web services, allowing
resources to be
controlled by many managers through a single interface.
Balloting closes
31 July.
Call for Vote:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-ann
ounce/200607/msg00005.html
Ballot :
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=1071
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OASIS CEO Appointed as High Level Advisor to United Nations
Global Alliance
Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS, has been
appointed to
the high level Advisory Board of the Global Alliance for ICT
and
Development (GAID). GAID is a new initiative of United
Nations
Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, to promote strategic,
intensive,
widespread, and innovative use of Information Communications
Technologies (ICT) in governmental development policies and
programmes.
http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2006-07-11.php
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Open for Public Review
OASIS strongly encourages feedback from potential users,
developers and
others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of
ensuring the
interoperability and quality of OASIS work. The following
specifications
are
* Open Building Information Exchange (oBIX) v1.0
specification; ends 12
September.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php
?wg_abbrev=obix.
* XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF) 1.2; ends
12 September .
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.ph
p?wg_abbrev=xliff.
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Planning Begins for Document Standards InterOp
All members interested in participating in a Document
Standards OASIS
InterOp demonstration are asked to join a discussion list to
coordinate
planning.Several venues in Europe and North America are
currently under
consideration. InterOp participants may be involved in the
OASIS
DocBook, DITA, and/or OpenDocument TCs.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/20
0607/msg00003.html
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Call for Papers Is Issued for OASIS Open Standards 2006 in
Sydney
All those interested in open standards development,
convergence and
adoption are invited to participate in the OASIS Open
Standards 2006
event taking place 25-27 October 25-27 in Sydney, Australia.
OASIS Open
Standards 2006 is the fourth annual Asia Pacific event where
both
management and technical professionals from the business and
government
sector can gather to share expertise and promote open
discussion on the
latest technologies, applications, and services supporting
the global
e-Business community.
http://www.open-standar
ds.com
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OASIS Seeks Presentations for Annual European Event
OASIS invites proposals for presentations, and panel
sessions for the
third annual OASIS Adoption Forum, 28-29 November. Held in
bond, the
event seeks to educate and expose security leaders and
professionals to
the tools, standards and implementations that are
transforming security
interactions and relationships between citizens, businesses,
governmental institutions and agencies. Submission Deadline
is 31
August.
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ttp://www.oasis-open.org/events/adoptionforum2006/
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OASIS ebXML Podcasts
Sacha Schlegel has conducted a series of audio interviews
with peer
experts on ebXML (ISO 15000) in the spring of 2006. The
podcasts offer
unique, accessible insight into the status and history of
ebXML and
related technologies advanced by OASIS and UN/CEFACT. The
interviews
are available in MP3 and OGG formats.
http://www.ebx
ml.org/ebxmlpodcasts.htm
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Events
23-28 July
XML Summer School
University of Oxford, UK
http://www.xmlsummers
chool.com/
24-28 July
GeoWeb 2006
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
http://www.geoweb.org/
27-29 July
Tri-XML Conference: XML in the Flow
Raleigh, NC, USA
http://www.trix
ml.org/confindex.shtml
30 August
XML and technical documentation - with DITA case study
Culemborg, Netherlands
http://dita.xml.org/nod
e/1360
19-20 October 2006
ITU-T and OASIS Workshop and Demonstration of Advances in
ICT Standards
for Public Warning
Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/ITU-T-OASISWo
rkshop2006/index.php
25-27 October
OASIS Open Standards
Sydney, Australia
http://www.open-standar
ds.com
28-29 November 2006
OASIS Adoption Forum
bond, UK
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ttp://www.oasis-open.org/events/adoptionforum2006/
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