OASIS News
21 May 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:
* Elections for OASIS Board and TAB open
* Members vote on CAM and WS-ReliableMessaging as OASIS
Standards
* Public review begins for Code List Representation
* Members propose new Search Web Services TC
* Three TCs close as IRP transition period ends
* Registration continues for free ebXML Webinar Week
* OASIS invites organizations to participate in Member
Section Program
* Upcoming deadlines
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Elections for OASIS Board and TAB open
Primary Representatives from OASIS member organizations are
asked to select
five candidates to serve two-year terms on the consortium's
Board of Directors.
Nominees include Peter Brown of Pensive.eu, Mike DeNicola of
Fujitsu, Rik
Drummond of Drummond Group, Bob Freund of Hitachi, Eduardo
Gutentag of Sun
Microsystems, Jim Hughes of Microsoft, Claus von Riegen of
SAP, and Michael
Winters of IBM. Candidate profiles are posted for review,
and members may share
views on the candidates by emailing the publicly archived
list,
oasis-member-discuss lists.oasis-open.org. Elections close 15
June.
Hal Lockhart of BEA Systems, Bill Cox, Martin Chapman of
Oracle, and Madhav
Vodnala of Fiorano Software have accepted nominations for
the four open seats
on the Technical Advisory Board.
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200705
/msg00010.html
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Members vote on CAM and WS-ReliableMessaging as OASIS
Standards
Two specification sets have been submitted for balloting as
OASIS Standards:
Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) 1.1 and
WS-ReliableMessaging 1.1. CAM provides
an open XML-based system for using business rules to define,
validate and
compose specific business documents from generalized schema
elements and
structures. WS-ReliableMessaging describes a protocol that
allows messages to
be transferred reliably between nodes implementing this
protocol in the
presence of software component, system, or network failures.
Members who wish
to discuss either of these specifications may do so through
member-discusslists.oasis-open.org. Ballots will remain
open until Thursday,
31 May 2007.
CAM: http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200705
/msg00009.html
WS-ReliableMessaging:
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200705
/msg00008.html
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Members propose new Search Web Services TC
A new OASIS TC to define search and retrieval Web services
has been proposed.
The group would work to develop a web service interface
specification covering
search/retrieval, query, sorting, record retrieval, and
index browsing. Ray
Denenberg of the US Library of Congress has agreed to serve
as convener of this
TC. A proposed charter is available for review, and members
are invited to
comment by 29 May.
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200705
/msg00006.html
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Public review begins for Code List Representation
The OASIS Code List Representation TC has approved Code List
Representation
(Genericode) Version 1.0 as a Committee Draft and submitted
the specification
for public review. The specification defines an XML format
for the interchange,
documentation and management of controlled vocabularies or
coded value
enumerations in any processing context. The review ends 16
July.
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200705
/msg00012.html
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Three TCs close as IPR transition period ends
The OASIS Web Services Business Process Execution Language
(WSBPEL) TC, Web
Services Composite Application Framework (WS-CAF) TC, and
Digital Signature
Services (DSS) TC have all concluded operations. The TCs,
which were formed
under the legacy OASIS Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
Policy, did not
achieve the consensus needed to transition to the current
IPR Policy.
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200705
/msg00011.html
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Registration continues for free ebXML Webinar Week
The OASIS ebXML Technical Committees will host a week of
free webinars devoted
to the ebXML OASIS Standards (ISO 15000). A different
standard will be featured
each day, Monday through Thursday, 4-7 June, at 3:00 PM GMT
(8:00 AM San
Francisco, 11:00 AM Boston, 4:00 PM bond). Attendees will
learn about the
current state of the standards from the people who created
them and who
continue to advance this foundational work.
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/webinars/ebxml-2007.php
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OASIS invites organizations to participate in Member Section
Program
Member Sections maintain their own identities as distinct
organizations while
gaining access to OASIS infrastructure, resources,
reputation, administrative
support, and expertise. The program is designed to meet the
needs of groups
interested in creating open standards, as well as those
seeking to articulate
business requirements, promote adoption of existing
standards, or advocate for
interoperable solutions.
http://
www.oasis-open.org/who/ms-overview.php
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**MEMBERSHIP TIP #35**
Start a new committee to advance adoption of an existing
standard
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/staff-stds-wiki/Starting
Committees
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Upcoming deadlines
31 May:
Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) 1.1 as OASIS Standard
ballot
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=1292
WS-ReliableMessaging 1.1 as OASIS Standard ballot
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=1291
8 Jun:
Emergency Data Exchange (EDXL-RM) 1.0 public review
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200704
/msg00011.html
10 Jun:
Election Markup Language (EML) 5.0 public review
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200704
/msg00011.html
15 Jun:
OASIS Board and TAB elections
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200705
/msg00010.html
9 Jul:
Document standards interoperability discussion list
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200704
/msg00009.html
16 Jul:
Code List Representation 1.0 public review
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200705
/msg00012.html
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