Fwd: [members] OASIS News--3 June 2005

May be a good option for our fall f2f...

-matt

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Subject: [members] OASIS News--3 June 2005

 
OASIS News

3 June 2005

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

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Mark Your Calendars: OASIS Adoption Forum, London, 17 Oct

This year, the OASIS Adoption Forum will be held at the Russell Hotel in London, 17 Oct. All members, as well as the public, are

encouraged to attend this annual European event, which will explore open standards issues that profoundly affect government,

healthcare, and commerce. Chaired by John Borras, CEO of the UK's Local e-Government Standards Body, the OASIS Adoption Forum will

deliver insight and updates on work in SOA, Web services, tax, business process, and localisation. OASIS gratefully acknowledges

event sponsors, BEA Systems, IBM, Innodata Isogen, SAP, and Sun Microsystems; their support will provide meeting rooms for TCs on

18, 19, and 20 Oct. (Space is limited, so TC chairs are advised to reserve early.) The OASIS Adoption Forum is being held in

conjunction with the eWorld Government and Healthcare Conference.

http://www.oasis-open.org/events/adoption_forum_2005/

http://www.eworld-government.com/

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OASIS Board and TAB Elections Underway 

Eight candidates have come forward to fill five seats on the OASIS Board of Directors. The OASIS Technical Advisory Board also has

eight nominations for its four open seats. Elections are underway now and will remain open until 24 June. All OASIS participants are

encouraged to review candidates profiles, as well as Board nominees' responses to member questions, and discuss preferences with

their Voting Representatives. 

http://www.oasis-open.org/private/elections/2005board/

http://www.oasis-open.org/private/elections/2005tab/

http://www.oasis-open.org/private/elections/2005board/questionaire.php

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Public Review of CAP v1.1 Ends 15 July

All interested parties are encouraged to provide comments on the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) v1.1 Committee Draft before the

close of its 60-day public review on 15 July. CAP, developed by the OASIS Emergency Management TC, enables information exchange to

advance incident preparedness and response to emergency situations. Public review from potential users, developers, and stakeholders

is an important part of the OASIS process to assure interoperability and quality. 

http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200505/msg00007.html

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Presentations from OASIS Open Standards Day Amsterdam Are Now Available

Slides used at the OASIS Open Standards Day, held in Amsterdam, 24 May, have been posted online. The programme featured

presentations on the latest eGovernment projects as well as on XML for tax-related information. It provided updates on the Web

Services Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL), Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) OASIS Standard, Web Services

Resource Framework (WSRF) and Web Services Notification (WSN) specifications. The Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 and

its interaction with the related profile adapters in eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) and WS-Security were also

explored, as was the Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) specification. A European Justice System's use of the ebXML Messaging OASIS

Standard provided perspective on real-world deployment of standards.

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

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Members Discuss XML Education and Evangelism 

Suggestions on ways OASIS can communicate the mission and purpose of XML to the world is one topic currently being vetted on the

OASIS member-discuss list. This unmoderated, open forum gives Consortium members a place to comment on, solicit input for, and

exchange ideas regarding topics of general interest to the OASIS community. Any OASIS member may post to this list; archives are

publicly accessible.

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/oasis-member-discuss/

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OASIS e-Gov TC Elects New Chair

Harm-Jan van Burg of the Netherlands Tax and Customs Administration has been unanimously elected to chair the OASIS eGovernment TC.

He will provide leadership to move the TC forward as a forum for governments to articulate and coordinate requirements for XML- and

Web services-based standards.    

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/egov/200505/msg00009.html

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OASIS Welcomes New Sponsor Members

Gupta Technologies (http://www.guptaworldwide.com/) produces secure, small-footprint, embeddable databases and enterprise

application development tools.

Idiom Technologies (www.idiominc.com) combines XML publishing and globalization to create and deliver comprehensive enterprise

software solutions for authoring, managing, and publishing content in any format in any language.

Justsystem (www.justsystem.com), one of the largest software vendors in Japan, develops technologies to process natural language as

the fundamental means for communications.

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Upcoming Events

6-7 June

Gartner Business Process Management Summit 

Arlington, VA, USA

24-29 July

XML Summer School

Oxford, UK 

7-9 June 2005

U-Connect Conference

Grapevine, TX

18-22 July 2005

GML and Geo-Spatial Web Services Conference 2005

Vancouver, British Columbia

24-29 July 5005

The XML Summer School 2005

Oxford, UK

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

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