OASIS News
21 August 2006
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OASIS Announces Newly Seated Board of Directors and
Technical Advisory
Board
OASIS issued a press release today to announce its newly
seated Board of
Directors and Technical Advisory Board (TAB). Paul Knight of
Nortel was
elected, and Ed Cobb of BEA Systems, Robert Glushko, Ph.D,
of the
University of California, Berkeley, Frederick Hirsch of
Nokia, and Jeff
Mischkinsky of Oracle were re-elected to the OASIS Board of
Directors.
The OASIS Board of Directors is chaired by Eduardo Gutentag
of Sun
Microsystems and also includes John Jackson of General
Motors, Chris
Kurt of Microsoft, Claus von Riegen of SAP and Michael
Winters of IBM,
as well as Patrick Gannon, who has an appointed seat on the
Board of
Directors as President and CEO of OASIS. Newly elected TAB
members
include Abbie Barbir of Nortel, Bill Barnhill of Booz Allen
Hamilton,
Jacques Durand of Fujitsu Limited, and Andy Lee of China's
Changfeng
Open Standards Platform Software Alliance. They join
existing TAB
members, Martin Chapman, Ph.D. of Oracle, William Cox,
Ph.D., Pete
Wenzel of Sun Microsystems, and Hal Lockhart of BEA Systems,
who chairs
the TAB.
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/announce/2006
08/msg00002.html
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OASIS CEO Visits China
Patrick Gannon spoke at several events hosted by OASIS
members in
Beijing last week, including the Digital Innovate China
Conference,
hosted by Digital China, and the SOA Strategy conference,
hosted by
Changfeng Alliance. Patrick also represented OASIS at the
ODF
Conference, hosted by China 2000, the creators of Red
Office, which now
supports ODF. He attended briefings by Beijing Sursen on
their UOML
Proposal, recently launched as a new OASIS discussion list.
Patrick
expressed appreciation for the support demonstrated by the
local Chinese
employees of OASIS multi-national members, as well as the
enthusiasm of
software vendors, system integrators, standards
organizations and
government officials in China.
http://w
ww.uoml.org/news/OASIS_CEO_VISIT.htm
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200608
/msg00003.html
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Consortium approves Guidelines for Filenames, URIs,
Namespaces, and Metadata
Members of OASIS have approved the "Guidelines for
Filenames, URIs,
Namespaces, and Metadata". The rules presented in this
document are
concerned chiefly with resources targeted for publication in
the OASIS
Open Library. OASIS would like to thank the OASIS Technical
Advisory
Board (TAB) and all those that took time to review and
comment on
numerous drafts. This document will be updated periodically;
notification of updates will be posted to the members list.
http://docs.oasis-open.or
g/
http://docs.oasis-open.org/specGui
delines/namingGuidelines/resourceNaming.html
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Ongoing Public Reviews
60-day review of oBIX v1.0 ends 12 Sept.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-ann
ounce/200607/msg00003.html
60-day review of XLIFF v1.2 ends 12 Sept.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-ann
ounce/200607/msg00004.html
60-day review of OpenDocument v1.1 ends 25 Sept.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-ann
ounce/200607/msg00009.html
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Sponsor Workshop and Demonstration of Advances in ICT
Standards for
Public Warning
Sponsorship opportunities are available for the first
international
workshop on standards for public warning, to be held in
Geneva, 19-20
October 2006. Hosted by the ITU-T and OASIS, and the event
will attract
high-level, public sector officials from various nations.
Attendees will
come together to gain and share knowledge of public warning
systems,
implementations and experiences. Opportunities to establish
co-operative
relationships for key players from both the public and
private sectors
will be provided. For more information on sponsorship,
contact
dee.schur oasis-open.org
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/ITU-T-OASI
SWorkshop2006/schedule.php
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Deadline Nears for Adoption Forum Presentations
The OASIS Adoption Forum, to be held 28-29 November in bond,
will
focus on the tools, standards, and implementations that are
transforming
security interactions and relationships between citizens,
businesses,
governmental institutions, and agencies. Potential speakers
are
especially encouraged to submit presentations related to:
the SAML OASIS
Standard (ITU X.1141) as a foundation for identity
management; the XACML
OASIS Standard (ITU X.1142) as a foundation for representing
and
evaluating access control policies; the use of biometric
identity
information in Web services; and wider issues related to SOA
and
security, for example, how security fits into an SOA
framework. The
submission deadline is 31 August.
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ttp://www.oasis-open.org/events/adoptionforum2006/
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Events
21-25 August
DITA Boot Camp
Wakefield, MA, USA
http://dita.xml.org/nod
e/1381
30 August
XML and technical documentation - with DITA case study
Culemborg, Netherlands
http://dita.xml.org/nod
e/1360
11-13 September
OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2006)
Lyon, France
http://ma
rketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/
24-27-29 September
Open Publish
Baltimore, MD
http://open-con
ferences.com/baltimore
2-4 October
AJAX World Conference & Exhibition 2006
Santa Clara, California
http://www.ajaxworldexp
o.com/
11-12 October
TMRA 2006 - Leveraging the Semantics
Leipzig, Germany
http://ww
w.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra/
19-20 October
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
2-3 November
DITA Europe Conference 2006
Frankfurt, Germany
http://www.infomanagementcenter.com/DITAeurope/index.htm
8-9 November
OASIS Open Standards Day Germany
Wiesbaden, Germany
http://
www.tekom.de/upload/alg/CfP%20OOSD.pdf
13-17 November
UBL International 2006
Copenhagen, Denmark
http://www.ublconferenc
e.com/
28-29 November
OASIS Adoption Forum
bond, UK
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ttp://www.oasis-open.org/events/adoptionforum2006/
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