OASIS News
15 January 2007
Welcome to OASIS News, a weekly update of announcements,
accomplishments, and activities for the international
standards consortium.
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Mike DeNicola Joins OASIS Board
Mike DeNicola, Director of Industry Relations at Fujitsu
Computer
Systems, has been elected to the OASIS Board of Directors,
filling the
seat vacated by the resignation of John Jackson of GM Mike
will hold
this seat until its expiration in July 2007. OASIS extends
congratulations to Mike and thanks all those who
participated in the
Special Election.
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200701
/msg00009.html
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OASIS Unstructured Operation Markup Language TC Forms
Members of OASIS have organized a TC to develop the
Unstructured
Operation Markup Language (UOML). The OASIS UOML TC will
define and
develop an open, XML-based operation standard for
unstructured
documents. The TC is convened by Alex Wang of Sursen Co. The
TC's first
meeting will be a teleconference on 6 February.
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announc
e/200701/msg00003.html
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Upcoming Public Review Deadlines:
19 Jan:
EDXL-HAVE v1.0
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announc
e/200611/msg00012.html
20 Jan:
XLIFF v1.2
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-ann
ounce/200701/msg00002.html
22 Jan:
WS-BPEL v2.0
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-ann
ounce/200701/msg00006.html
30 Jan:
CAM v1.1
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-ann
ounce/200611/msg00015.html
10 Feb:
WS-SecurityPolicy v1.2
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-ann
ounce/200612/msg00007.html
11 Feb:
ebXML Registry Profile for OWL v1.5
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-ann
ounce/200612/msg00008.html
7 Mar:
ebXML-IIC Deployment Profile Templates
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announc
e/200701/msg00004.html
SAML-related specifications
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announc
e/200701/msg00005.html
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OASIS XACML TC Approves IPR Transition
Members of the OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup
Language (XACML)
TC have voted to adopt the "RF on Limited Terms"
IPR mode for their
ongoing work. In selecting this mode, obligated TC members
agree to
grant nonexclusive, worldwide, non-sublicensable, perpetual
patent
licenses without payment of royalties or fees. See the OASIS
IPR Policy
for more details.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php
?wg_abbrev=xacml
http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php
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OASIS Welcomes New Sponsor-Level Members
*WISeKey SA (www.wisekey.com) provides a reliable manner of
establishing
universal secure communications with uniquely identifiable
individuals
and organisations as well as animate and inanimate objects
of tangible
or intangible nature. Through the provision of an
international
recognized PKI infrastructure technology, WISekey enables
companies
worldwide to securely develop their internet strategies
*SAS Institute Inc. (www.sas.com) is an international
provider of
business intelligence software and services. SAS offers
data
integration, intelligence storage, advanced analytics and
business
intelligence applications within a comprehensive enterprise
intelligence
platform.
*XyEnterprise Inc. (www.xyenterprise.com) provides content
management
and publishing software solutions to industry leaders in
technology,
financial services, publishing, manufacturing, government
and
aerospace/defense.
*Comtech Services, Inc.(www.comtech-serv.com) offers a wide
variety of
services to its customers, including
content-management/single-sourcing
design, planning, and implementation, customer research,
benchmark
studies, process re-engineering and process maturity
studies,
competitive analysis, interface design and usability
testing, web site
design reviews and user-centered design as well as workshops
in content
management, organizational management, information design,
structured
writing, and interface design. Comtech's president, Dr.
JoAnn Hackos,
serves as secretary for the OASIS DITA TC and chair of the
DITA XML.org
Editorial Board.
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Events 2007
29 Jan-2 Feb
DITA Boot Camp
Redwood City, USA
http://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/ditabootcamp.shtml
5-8 Feb
Designing and Building Ontologies Seminar
Washington, DC, United States
http://www.wilshireconferences.com/seminars/Ontologies/
7-9 Mar
Open Publish 2007
Baltimore, United States
http://www
.open-conferences.com/baltimore/
12-15 Mar
LISA Forum Asia: China Focus
Beijing, China
http://www.lisa.org/events/2007beijing/?from=posting
19-21 Mar
AJAXWorld Conference & Expo
New York, United States
http://www.ajaxworldexp
o.com/
20-21 Mar
Topic Maps 2007
Oslo, Norway
http://www.topicmaps
.com/tm2007/
26-28 Mar
Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2007
Boston, United States
http://www.cm-
strategies.com/index.htm
15-20 Apr
Fourth Annual OASIS Symposium
San Diego, United States
http://ww
w.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/
8-9 May
Web Services Security Conference & Exhibition
Baltimore, United States
http://www.unatekcon
ference.com/
All events:
http://
www.oasis-open.org/events/calendar.php
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