OASIS News - 13 January 2005

OASIS NEWS
13 January 2005

Welcome to OASIS News, a weekly 
update of announcements, accomplishments, 
and activities for the 
international standards 
consortium.

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Nominations 
Open for Special Board of Directors Election

 

With Colin Evans of Intel having resigned his position on the OASIS Board 
of Directors, a Special Election will be held to complete his term, which 
expires in July 2006. Candidate nominations from OASIS members will be accepted 
until 21 Jan.

 

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200501/msg00005.html

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OASIS Committees to Meet at Symposium 

OASIS TCs are strongly 
encouraged to meet at the OASIS Symposium in New Orleans, Apr 27-29. The event presents a 
great opportunity to interact with other TCs. Several TCs have already reserved 
meeting space, including:

 

- OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets

- OASIS Emergency Management

- OASIS Business-Centric Methodology

- OASIS International Health Continuum

- OASIS Content Assembly

- OASIS Web Services Composite Application Framework

- OASIS e-Government

- OASIS LegalXML Integrated Justice & Court Filing

- OASIS XRI Data Interchange  

 

Chairs from other TCs should review the details on the event and complete 
the online scheduling form. Space is limited and will be allocated on a 
first-come, first-served basis.

http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium_2005/tc_meetings.php.

 

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OASIS Federated Identity InterOp Demo to be held at RSA Conference, 16-17 
February

OASIS, GSA E-Authentication Initiative, Enspier, and RSA 
Security will
co-sponsor the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) v2.0 
OASIS Standard
InterOp Demo at the RSA Conference on 16-17 February in 
San 
Francisco.
Computer Associates, DataPower, Enspier, 
Entrust, Hewlett Packard, NIPPON
Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), OpenNetworks, 
Oracle, Principal Identity, RSA
Security, Sun Microsystems, Symlabs and 
Trustgenix will come together to
demonstrate secure exchange of 
authentication, attribute, and authorization
information between disparate 
security domains, which makes
vendor-independent web single sign-on and 
secure e-business transactions
possible.

 

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OASIS 
Committees Promote Standards

 

Organizations investing resources to create OASIS Standards may also 
consider working to educate the marketplace on the importance of these 
specifications. OASIS members may form Committees or Sub-Committees to promote 
the adoption of standards. For more information on creating a promotional 
Committee or Sub-Committee, please e-mail .

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OASIS 
on the Agenda

24-28 Jan - Boundaryless Information Flow TM: Architecting 
Identity Management. San 
Francisco, CA. Patrick Gannon will speak 
on
interoperable identity management solutions at the conference. OASIS 
members are eligible for a discount.

Contact  for specific information on taking advantage of OASIS member 
discounts.

http://www.oasis-open.org/events/