RE: [election-services] FW: [announce] Members Approve Election Markup Language (EML) as OASIS Standard

Siobhan,

 

Did OASIS decide to label this version 1.0 from their side?

 

Or should the announcement reference v4.0 - not v1.0?

 

My sense is that it should be labelled v4.0 to avoid confusion.

 

Thanks, DW

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Subject:
[election-services] FW: [announce] Members Approve Election
Markup
Language (EML) as OASIS Standard
From: "Siobhan Donaghy"
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Date: Mon, February 13, 2006 10:47
am
To: <>
Cc: "Roy
Hill" <>, "Desmond
Vincent"
<>, "Aisling Collins"
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All,

 

Please see message from Carol, press release
at:

 

http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-06-02-13.php

 

Regards,

Siobhan

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Geyer
[mailto:] 
Sent: 13 February 2006
15:45
To: Siobhan Donaghy
Subject: FW: [announce] Members Approve
Election Markup Language (EML) as OASIS Standard
Importance:
High

 

Sioban,

Could you please send this message to the OASIS
E&VS TC members for me?

Thanks,

Carol

 

 

OASIS Election and Voter Services Committee
Members:

 

The following press release was issued this
morning and is posted at
http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-06-02-13.php.
Your

help in raising awareness of this exciting news
would be most appreciated. Please consider:

 

*linking to this release from your
organization's web site

 

*translating this press release into another
language (notify me so OASIS can post or link to your
translation)

 

*distributing the announcement to appropriate
email lists, forums, etc.

 

*issuing a press release from your organization
in support of EML and your participation in its
development

 

*sending me links to any EML press coverage you
see, so we can add to the Committee's Press
page

(http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election/press.php)

 

 

With congratulations and
thanks,

 

Carol

 

 

 

-----Original
Message-----

From: Carol Geyer
[mailto:] 

Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 8:06
AM

To:


Subject: [announce] Members Approve Election
Markup Language (EML) as OASIS Standard

Importance: High

 

Members Approve Election Markup Language (EML)
as OASIS Standard

 

Boston, MA, USA;
13 February 2006 -- OASIS, the international standards consortium, today
announced that its members have approved

the Election Markup Language (EML) version 1.0
as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of
ratification.

Developed through an open process by the OASIS
Election and Voter Services Technical Committee, EML enables the secure
interchange

of information between electronic voting
systems, software, and services. 

 

"EML provides a high-level overview of the
processes within an electronic voting system and XML schemas for the
various data

interchange points between the e-voting
processes," explained John Borras, out-going chair of the OASIS
Election and Voter Services

Committee. "It describes the data requirements
of the flows between electronic voting processes and addresses security
issues

relating to the exchange of
data."

 

Services addressed by EML include new voter
registration, membership and dues collection, change of address
tracking, redistribution

of electoral boundaries, requests for
absentee/expatriate ballots, election timetabling, polling place
management, election

notification and administration, ballot
delivery and vote counting, and election results reporting and
analysis. 

 

"The increase in the use of electronic voting
techniques around the world has resulted in an explosion of products
and suppliers

addressing this market," said Siobhan Donaghy
of OPT2VOTE Ltd, secretary for the OASIS Election and Voter Services
Committee. "EML

provides the needed assurance that all these
products can work to the same standard." 

 

EML has been developed following work over
several years by key representatives from IBM, Oracle, Sun
Microsystems, and other

suppliers in collaboration with international
government agencies across many countries. These organizations came
together to

develop a robust and reliable standard that
would provide a secure approach and sustain voter confidence in voting
practices. 

 

"EML is designed to benefit public officials
who oversee voting in local or national elections and referendums, as
well as those who

conduct private elections within corporations
or other organizations. Suppliers of electronic voting systems profit
from EML by

reducing their development costs," noted
Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS. "Of course ultimately, it's
the voters who

stand to gain the most from this standard. The
added reliability that comes from using common data elements in a
consistent manner

provides more security and reduces costs in the
election process, which is a bottom-line benefit that has the potential
to touch us

all."

 

The OASIS Election and Voter Services Committee
remains open to new participation. Those interested in implementing EML
are

encouraged to exchange information via the
public eml-dev mailing list (http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/). As
with all Consortium

projects, archives of the OASIS Election and
Voter Services Committee's work are accessible to both members and
non-members, and

OASIS hosts an open mail list for public
comment on the standard.

 

 

About OASIS:

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of
Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, international
consortium that

drives the development, convergence, and
adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS
technical agenda, using

a lightweight, open process expressly designed
to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. The
consortium produces

open standards for Web services, security,
e-business, and standardization efforts in the public sector and for
application-specific

markets. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than
5,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual
members in 100

countries. Approved OASIS Standards include
AVDL, CAP, DITA, DocBook, DSML, ebXML CPPA, ebXML Messaging, ebXML
Registry, EML,

OpenDocument, SAML, SPML, UBL, UDDI, WSDM,
WS-Reliability, WSRP, WS-Security, XACML, XCBF, and XML
Catalogs.

http://www.oasis-open.org

 

 

Additional
information:

 

OASIS Election and Voter Services Technical
Committee: 

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election

 

EML FAQ: 

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election/faq.php

 

Cover Pages Technology Report:

http://xml.coverpages.org/eml.html

 

 

Press contact:

 

Carol Geyer

Director of
Communications

OASIS



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