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OASIS News: 2 July 2007 OASIS News 2 July 2007 Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium. In this issue: * New mission statement focuses on global information society * WS-SecurityPolicy becomes an OASIS Standard * Five new TCs form under Open CSA Member Section * Digital Signature Services eXtended (DSS-X) TC forms * OASIS Standard ballot on DITA 1.1 opens soon * Public review begins for Customer Information Quality (CIQ) 3.0 * Video interview with OASIS CEO explores ROI of standards * OASIS announces Program Committee for Open Standards Forum * Consortium seeks research assistant for Cover Pages ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New mission statement focuses on global information society In response to requests from members to broaden the consortium's positioning beyond "e-business", OASIS has edited its mission statement and tagline. The new mission statement, "OASIS drives the development, convergence, and adoption of open standards for the global information society", and tagline "Advancing open standards for the information society", will be featured throughout the OASIS web site and other materials. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WS-SecurityPolicy becomes an OASIS Standard Members have approved version 1.2 of WS-SecurityPolicy as an OASIS Standard. WS-SecurityPolicy defines a base set of assertions that describe how messages are to be secured in the WS-Policy framework. Congratulations to Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) TC co-chairs, Kelvin Lawrence of IBM and Chris Kaler of Microsoft, and to all WS-SX TC members for this accomplishment. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00001.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Six new TCs form under Open CSA Member Section Members of the OASIS Open CSA Member Section have organized six new TCs to advance development of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) family of specifications. SCA describes a model for building applications and systems using a service-oriented architecture. The new OASIS SCA Policy TC will be convened by Michael Rowley of BEA, the SCA Assembly TC by Martin Chapman of Oracle, the SCA Bindings TC by Mike Edwards of IBM, the SCA/J TC by Henning Blohm of SAP, the SCA BPEL TC by Mike Edwards of IBM and the SCA C/C++ TC by Bryan Aupperle of IBM. All these TCs welcome new participation. http://www.oasis-opencsa.org/ http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200706/msg00014.html http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200706/msg00015.html http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00002.html http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00003.html http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00004.html http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00005.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital Signature Services eXtended (DSS-X) TC forms Members of OASIS have organized a new TC to advance new profiles for the DSS OASIS Standard and maintain the specification. Proposers of the OASIS DSS-X TC include representatives of CATCert-Agencia Catalana de Certificacio, BEA, and others. Convened by Juan Carlos Cruellas of CANET, the TC's first meeting will be a teleconference on 23 July. New participants are welcome. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200706/msg00012.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Standard ballot on DITA 1.1 opens soon The OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture TC has submitted DITA version 1.1 to be considered as an OASIS Standard. DITA 1.1 advances a document creation and management specification that builds content reuse into the authoring process. On 16 July, a Call for Vote on DITA 1.1 will be issued to all OASIS member organizations. Members who wish to discuss this ballot may do so through member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00000.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Public review begins for Customer Information Quality (CIQ) 3.0 The OASIS CIQ TC has approved CIQ version 3.0 as a Committee Draft and submitted it for public review. CIQ provides a set of industry- and application-neutral XML specifications for representing, interoperating, and managing party (person/organization) centric information. The review ends 26 August. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200706/msg00013.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Video interview with OASIS CEO explores ROI of standards A 25-minute conversation between Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS, and Gregory Maciag, CEO of the ACORD insurance standards organization, is now available online. In the interview, Gannon discusses data integration, Composite Service Architecture, cross-industry applications, and the common ground of OASIS and ACORD standards. http://video.acord.org/?fr_story=9a4544ff30030fb5866b925099409f382410b832 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS announces Program Committee for Open Standards Forum Industry experts, Tim Jennings, Research Director for the Butler Group; Martin Raepple, Standards Architect at SAP; and Pim van der Eijk, European Representative for OASIS, will serve on the Programme Committee for OASIS' annual European Forum. The event, which will be held 29-30 October in London, will explore the theme, "Enabling Transitional Government Through Web Services and SOA." Members of the Programme Committee will be evaluating proposals for presentations and panel sessions that address standardisation for message security, reliable messaging, transaction, choreography and orchestration. The deadline to submit presentation abstracts is 13 July. http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2007/callforpresentations ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Consortium seeks research assistant for Cover Pages Qualified individuals are encouraged to apply for a part-time position working with Robin Cover in the collection, editing, and publication of standards information for the Cover Pages web site (http://xml.coverpages.org/) and for the newsletter, XML Daily Newslink. This assistant will conduct research about XML standards activity, based upon prescribed research objectives, organizing the content in markup format suitable for publication. http://www.oasis-open.org/jobs/cp-assistant.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: 9 Jul:   Webinar series on OASIS security standards begin   http://www.oasis-open.org/events/webinars/security-2007.php   Discussion list on document standards interoperability closes   http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200704/msg00009.html 13 Jul:   Abstracts due for OASIS Open Standards Forum in London   http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2007/callforpresentations 16 Jul:   Code List Representation 1.0 public review closes   http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200705/msg00012.html 18 Jul:   Search Web Services TC holds first meeting   http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/search-ws/ 26 Aug:   Customer Information Quality (CIQ) 3.0 public review closes   http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200706/msg00013.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Recent press releases: OASIS Members Form Committee to Standardize Symmetric Encryption Key Management Across the Enterprise http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2007-06-25.php Members Approve WS-ReliableMessaging as OASIS Standard http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2007-06-21.php Members Approve Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) 1.1 as OASIS Standard http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2007-06-19.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- **Membership Tip #40** Organize an InterOp to demonstrate cross-vendor support for a spec. http://www.oasis-open.org/who/interop_demo_policy.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. 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