EML SUBMISSION FOR OASIS STANDARD

Mary,

 

The OASIS Election and Voter 
Services Technical Committee is pleased to provide the 
following documentation with its 
submission of the Committee Specification of the EML v 4.0 Specification for Member Approval as 
an OASIS Standard.

1.   Links to the approved Committee 
Specification in the TC's document repository, and any appropriate supplemental 
documentation for the specification, both of which must be written using the 
OASIS templates. The specification may not have been changed between its 
approval as a Committee Specification and its submission to OASIS for 
consideration as an OASIS Standard, except for the changes on the title page and 
running footer noting the approval status and date. 

 

       A consolidated zip file 
with all specifications and Schemas 
is publicly available 
from:

      - http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/12091/cd2.zip

2.   The editable version of all files 
that are part of the Committee Specification; 

 

        see EML v 4.0 Process 
and Data Requirements and EML v 4.0 Schema Descriptions in zip file referenced 
above.

 

3.  Certification 
by the TC that all schema and XML instances included in the specification, 
whether by inclusion or reference, including fragments of such, are well formed, 
and that all expressions are valid; 

 

        I can certify that the 
schema and XML instances included in the specification are well formed and all 
expressions are valid.

 

4.  A clear English-language 
summary of the specification:

        
The Election mark-up Language 
(EML) specification defines the 
standard for the structured interchange of data among hardware, software, 
and  service     providers 
who engage in any aspect of providing election or voter services to public 
or private organizations.

    The 
specification consists of:

  

  
A generic process model that 
  sets the scope of e-voting

  

  
A data catalogue that defines 
  the data exchanged during the voting processes

  

  
a set of XML schemas that 
  support the data exchanges

  

  
a discussion of the some of the common security requirements 
  faced in different election scenarios, a possible security model, and the 
  mechanisms that are available in the EML specifications to help address those 
  requirements. 

5.  A statement 
regarding the relationship of this specification to similar work of other OASIS TCs or other 
standards developing 
organizations:

         To our 
knowledge this specification has no 
relationship to any other work of other OASIS TCs or other standards developing 
organizations.

6.  Certification by 
at least three OASIS member organizations that they are successfully using the specification 
consistently with the OASIS IPR 
Policy:

        Oracle - see 
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/election/download.php/15925/FW%20EML%20-%20VERY%20URGENT%20-%20ORACLE.htm

 

        Accenture - to follow shortly

 

        Opt2Vote - to follow shortly

 

7.   The beginning and ending dates of 
the public review(s), a pointer to the announcement of the public review(s), and 
a pointer to an account of each of the comments/issues raised during the public 
review period(s), along with its resolution; 

 

        See 
attached.   No comments/issues were raised during the public 
review.

8.  An 
account of and results of the voting to approve the specification as a Committee 
Specification, including the date of the ballot and a pointer to the 
ballot;

 

        see http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/election/ballot.php?id=899

9.  An 
account of or pointer to votes and comments received in any earlier attempts to 
standardize substantially the same specification, together with the originating 
TC's response to each comment; 

 

        
This specification has not previously been submitted to OASIS for standardization.

10.  A 
pointer to the publicly visible comments archive for the originating 
TC; 

          - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/election-services-comment/

11  A 
pointer to any minority reports submitted by one or more Members who did not 
vote in favour of approving the Committee Specification, which report may 
include statements regarding why the member voted against the specification or 
that the member believes that Substantive Changes were made which have not gone 
through public review; or certification by the Chair that no minority reports 
exist. 

 

           
No such reports exist.

 

 

Please let me know 
if you require any further information.

 

Regards

 

John 
Borras

Chair E&VS 
TC

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From: "James Bryce Clark" <>

To: <>,<>

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 23:05:03 -0000

To:  OASIS members, public announce lists

    The OASIS Election and Voter Services TC has approved
the following specification as a Committee Draft and approved the package
for public review:

        Election Markup Language (EML)
v4.0  

            Part
1: EML Process & Data Requirements Version 4.0  

            Part
2: EML Schema Descriptions Version 4.0  

The public review starts today, 15 September 2005, and ends 14 November
2005.  This is an open invitation to comment.  Please feel free
to distribute this announcement within your organization and to other
appropriate mail lists.

     Public review from potential users, developers
and stakeholders is an important part of the OASIS process to assure
interoperability and quality.  Comments are solicited from all
interested parties.  

    More non-normative information about the specification
and the technical committee may be found at the public home page of the
TC at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election/.
 Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person, by a web-form
that can be reached either on that page, via the button marked 
"Send A Comment" at the top of that page, or directly at 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=election.

     Submitted comments (for this work as well as
other works of that TC) are publicly archived and can be viewed at
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/election-services-comment/.
 All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback
License, to assure that the comment may be freely re-used by the
TC;  the license terms can be found on the comment
web-form.

    The specification documents and related documents are
available here:

ZIP file of PDF copies, XSDs: 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/14032/EML%20Public%20Review%20Draft%20v1.zip

ZIP file of HTML copies, specs only: 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/14489/EML-public-review-draft-html.zip

    1.  EML Process & Data Requirements Version
4.0 

        HTML (in HTML Zip):  EML
v4.0 Process and Data Requirements.htm

        PDF (in PDF Zip):  EML
v4.0 Process and Data Requirements.pdf

    2.  EML Schema Descriptions Version 4.0 

        HTML (in HTML
Zip):   EML v4.0 Process and Data Requirements.pdf

        PDF (in PDF Zip):  EML
v4.0 Process and Data Requirements.pdf

    3.  EML v4.0 Data Dictionary 

        Spreadsheet (in PDF
Zip):  EML v4.0 Data Dictionary.xls

    4.  38 sample schema (.XSD files) (in PDF
Zip)

    OASIS and the Technical Committee welcome your
comments.

~   James Bryce Clark 

~   Director, Standards Development, OASIS

~    

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