OASIS News
9 April 2007
Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements,
accomplishments,
and activities for the international open standards
consortium.
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HEADLINES:
* Nominations open for OASIS Board and TAB
* Test Assertions Guidelines (TAG) TC forms
* Countdown to Symposium begins
* Discussion list opens on document standards
interoperability
* OASIS WSRF TC completes work
* Committees transition IPR mode
* OASIS welcomes new Sponsors: Australian DEST, Jericho
Systems,
Rogue Wave, and World Bank
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Nominations open for OASIS Board and TAB
OASIS is now seeking candidates to fill five seats on its
Board of Directors
and four seats on its Technical Advisory Board (TAB). Board
directors and TAB
members each serve two-year terms. Any OASIS member
organization may nominate
candidates; nominees are not required to be members of the
Consortium. A
distinctive characteristic of OASIS is that its leadership
is elected by the
membership and not tied to financial contribution, corporate
standing, or staff
appointment. Everyone is encouraged to thoughtfully consider
participation in
the election process.
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Test Assertions Guidelines (TAG) TC forms
Members of OASIS have organized a TC to facilitate the
creation and use of test
assertions by OASIS Committees and others in an effort to
improve the overall
quality of standards. Proposers of the OASIS TAG TC include
representatives
from Fujitsu, the Korean Institute for Electronic Commerce,
Sun Microsystems,
and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST). Convened by
Jacques Durand of Fujitsu, the TC's first meeting will be a
teleconference on 3
May 3.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tag/200704/msg
00000.html
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Countdown to Symposium begins
Registrations are still being accepted for the fourth annual
OASIS Symposium.
This year's event on "eBusiness and Open Standards:
Understanding the Facts,
Fiction, and Future" will be held 15-20 April in San
Diego, California. The
Symposium will begin with a keynote by Bob Sutor, Open
Source and Standards VP
at IBM, and will close with an interactive panel where top
executives from BEA
Systems, EDS, IBM, Primeton, SAP, and Sun Microsystems
debate SOA and Web
services methods. Other highlights include TC Lightning
Rounds, tabletop
displays, the OASIS Annual General Members Meeting, an OASIS
Board of Directors
session open to members, and a special reception sponsored
by the Changfeng
Alliance. Two Wednesday Workshops--on OpenDocument and on
WS-BPEL--will be free
to Symposium attendees or available separately.
Note: Attendees who blog about the Symposium are asked to
email
communications oasis-open.org. Links to Symposium-related
blogs will be
promoted at the event and online.
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/2007/index.p
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Discussion list opens on document standards interoperability
OASIS has created a new discussion list to explore the
possibility of forming a
technical committee to address the development and
documentation of scenarios
for cross-standard content sharing. Subscribers to the list
will discuss the
creation of a specification for an interoperability
framework (including
mappings from participating standard formats to the
framework), as well as
requirements on participating standards to improve
interoperability. This mail
list will remain open for 90 days. Anyone, including OASIS
members and
non-members, may subscribe in order to discuss the merits
and possibility of
the proposed project.
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200704
/msg00009.html
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OASIS WSRF TC completes work
After producing version 1.2 of the Web Services Resource
Framework (WSRF) and
successfully advancing the specification through the open
standardization
process, the OASIS WSRF TC is now closed. WSRF provides a
standardized,
interoperable platform for resource-based Web services that
is widely used
around the world. The Consortium congratulates TC co-chairs,
David Snelling of
Fujitsu and Ian Robinson of IBM, and all the members of the
OASIS WSRF TC for
their contributions and dedication to this effort. The TC's
work, including its
email archives, will remain permanently accessible to the
public.
http://www
.oasis-open.org/committees/wsrf/
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Committees transition IPR mode
Five TCs recently transitioned to "RF on Limited
Terms" mode, as defined by the
OASIS Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy. These
include the OASIS ebXML
Messaging Services, Election and Voter Services, Public Key
Infrastructure
Adoption, SOA Reference Model, and Web Services for Remote
Portlets Committees.
The OASIS Provisioning Services TC transitioned to the
"RF on RAND Terms" IPR
mode.
http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php
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OASIS welcomes new Sponsor-level members:
* Australian Department of Education, Science and Training
(DEST)
(www.dest.gov.au/) develops and implements national policies
to ensure the
continuing relevance of education, science and training to
contemporary needs
and the growing requirement for lifelong learning.
* Jericho Systems (www.jerichosystems.com) offers enterprise
systems, software
and services based on the SAML, XACML, and WS-Security OASIS
Standards, as well
as SOAP.
* Rogue Wave (www.roguewave.com) delivers reusable software
components and
services for enterprise-class application development and
high performance SOA.
Rogue Wave recently upgraded from Contributor- to
Sponsor-level membership in
OASIS.
* The World Bank (www.worldbank.org/) provides financial and
technical
assistance to developing countries around the world.
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Upcoming deadlines
9 April:
OASIS IDtrust Member Section Steering Committee
elections
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200703
/msg00024.html
11 April:
OASIS Symposium advance registration (re-opens onsite 15
April)
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/2007/
registration.php
12 April:
WS-SecurityPolicy 1.2 public review
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200703
/msg00025.html
19 April:
WebCGM v2.0 errata public review
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200704
/msg00008.html
1 May:
OASIS Board and TAB nominations
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4 May:
DITA v1.1 public review
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-ann
ounce/200703/msg00007.html
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