OASIS News
21 Aug 2007
Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements,
accomplishments,
and activities for the international open standards
consortium.
In this issue:
* OASIS and Butler announce program for Open Standards Forum
in bond
* IDtrust adds Digital Signature Services Extended (DSS-X)
TC
* Second public review underway for Election Markup Language
5.0
* Open CSA announces SCA educational sessions and TC
meetings
* SDD TC publishes new FAQ
* OASIS welcomes Comet to Sponsor-level membership
* Important dates
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OASIS and Butler announce program for Open Standards Forum
in bond
Visionaries from the public and private sectors will address
the theme of
"Enabling Transformational Government through Web
Services and SOA" at the Open
Standards Forum, 29-30 October, near bond. The program
features keynote
addresses from John Wailing, of the UK Home Office of the
CIO, and David Keene,
Vice President of Platform, Technology and Solutions for SAP
UK. Other speakers
include public sector representatives from A-SIT Austria,
Danish National IT
and Telecom Agency, the UK's NHS Connecting for Health, and
RSOE (Hungary). The
Forum will also offer presentations from representatives of
AmberPoint, Axway,
BEA, Beijing Digital China, Capgemini, Fujitsu, IBM,
JBOSS/Red Hat, Oracle, and
other providers and implementers. Support for the event is
provided by OASIS
Foundational Sponsors, BEA, EDS, IBM, Primeton, SAP, and Sun
Microsystems.
Contact events oasis-open.org for information on
additional sponsorship
opportunities.
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200708
/msg00005.html
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IDtrust adds Digital Signature Services Extended (DSS-X) TC
The IDtrust Member Section has expanded its oversight of
OASIS TCs to include
DSS-X, a committee that was recently formed to advance new
profiles for the
Digital Signature Services OASIS Standard. IDtrust is a
group within OASIS that
promotes greater understanding and use of standards-based
technologies,
policies, and practices for identity and trusted
infrastructure. In addition to
DSS-X, IDtrust affiliated TCs include PKI Adoption and EKMI.
IDtrust welcomes
ideas for forming more new Committees in this arena.
http://www.oasis-i
dtrust.org/dss-x
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Second public review underway for Election Markup Language
5.0
The OASIS Election and Voter Services TC has edited the
Election Markup
Language (EML) version 5.0, which was approved as a
Committee Draft, and
submitted it for a second public review. EML enables the
exchange of data for
public and private election services. This review ends 30
August and is limited
in scope to changes made from the previous public review.
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announc
e/200708/msg00003.html
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Open CSA announces SCA educational sessions and TC meetings
On 18 Sept, the OASIS Open Composite Services Architecture
(Open CSA) Member
Section will sponsor a full day of public educational
sessions on the Service
Component Architecture (SCA) at the SAP facility in Palo
Alto, California. SCA
simplifies SOA application development by defining a
flexible model for
creating business solutions using service components. The
educational sessions
will be followed by face-to-face inaugural meetings of six
SCA TCs and an Open
CSA Member Section plenary. The event is free. Educational
sessions are open to
the public. TC membership is required to attend the
subsequent SCA TC meetings
and plenary; however, new members are welcomed.
http://www.
oasis-opencsa.org/2007-plenary
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SDD TC publishes new FAQ
Members of the OASIS Solution Deployment Descriptor TC have
created a new FAQ
to address questions on their work and encourage new
participation and
adoption. The TC, which includes representatives of CA,
Dell, Fujitsu, IBM,
Macrovision, SAP AG, SAS Institute, Sun Microsystems, and
others, works to
define a standard for expressing metadata about software
deployment and
lifecycle management. The primary areas being standardized
are package and
deployment descriptors.
http
://www.oasis-open.org/committees/sdd/faq.php
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OASIS welcomes Comet to Sponsor-level membership
Comet Communications offers consulting, training courses,
and other services in
all areas of technical writing, technical documentation, and
technical
communication. Headquartered in Munich, Comet is an active
supporter of the
OASIS DITA TC, as well as other consortium work.
http://www.comet.de/
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Important dates
26 Aug:
Customer Information Quality (CIQ) 3.0 public review ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-ann
ounce/200706/msg00013.html
30 Aug:
Election Markup Language (EML) 5.0 public review ends
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announc
e/200708/msg00003.html
18-20 Sept:
Open CSA holds plenary, SCA educational sessions, and TC
meetings
http://www.
oasis-opencsa.org/2007-plenary
22 Sept:
Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) public review
ends
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announc
e/200707/msg00011.html
29-30 Oct:
OASIS and Butler Group host Open Standards Forum in bond
http://
events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2007/
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**Membership Tip #43**
Sponsor an OASIS case study
http://www.oasis-open.org/casestudies/guidelines.php
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