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

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HEADLINES:

* OASIS Standard ballots on CAM and WS-ReliableMessaging open soon
* Eight candidates run for OASIS Board of Directors
* LegalXML eContracts TC approves Committee Specification
* Public reviews begin for XLIFF 1.2 and ebXML Messaging Services 3.0
* TCs host ebXML Webinar Week
* Burton Catalyst Conference to feature XACML InterOp
* IDtrust Member Section elects Steering Committee
* World Conservation Union (IUCN) and OASIS host Biodiversity Workshop
* OASIS Test Assertions Guidelines TC holds first meeting
* DSS, WBBPEL, WS-Context, WS-Transaction mail lists support developers
* Upcoming deadlines

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OASIS Standard ballots on CAM and WS-ReliableMessaging open soon

The OASIS Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) TC has submitted the CAM 1.1
specification to be considered as an OASIS Standard. CAM provides an open
XML-based system for using business rules to define, validate and compose
specific business documents from generalized schema elements and structures.

The OASIS Web Services Reliable Exchange (WS-RX) TC has submitted the
WS-ReliableMessaging 1.1 specification set to be considered as an OASIS
Standard. WS-ReliableMessaging allows messages to be transferred reliably
despite software component, system, or network failures.

On 16 May, Calls for Vote on CAM 1.1 and on WS-ReliableMessaging 1.1 will be
issued to all OASIS member organizations. Members who wish to discuss either of
these ballots may do so through member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org.

CAM: http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200705/msg00001.html
WS-RX: http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200705/msg00000.html

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Eight candidates run for OASIS Board of Directors

In the upcoming OASIS Board of Directors elections, members will select five
candidates from eight nominees: Peter Brown of Pensive.eu; Mike DeNicola of
Fujitsu; Rik Drummond of Drummond Group; Bob Freund of Hitachi; Eduardo
Gutentag of Sun Microsystems; Jim Hughes of Microsoft; Claus von Riegen of SAP;
and Michael Winters of IBM. Candidate profiles will be posted for review, and
balloting will be held 15 May - 15 June.

In addition, four technology experts have accepted nominations for the four
open seats on the Technical Advisory Board. They include: Hal Lockhart of BEA
Systems; Bill Cox; Martin Chapman of Oracle; and Mahav Vodnala of Fiorano
Software.

http://www.oasis-open.org/who/election_process.php

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LegalXML eContracts TC approves Committee Specification

eContracts 1.0, an XML markup model for the creation, maintenance, management,
exchange and publication of business and consumer contract documents, has been
approved as a Committee Specification by the OASIS LegalXML e-Contracts TC. The
eContracts schema is designed to reduce maintenance costs of precedent
documents and allow organizations to effectively automate document assembly and
publishing processes. Congratulations to TC chair, Daniel Greenwood, and all
members who participated in this work.

http://docs.oasis-open.org/legalxml-econtracts/CS01/legalxml-econtracts-specifi
cation-1.0.html

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Public reviews begin for XLIFF 1.2 and ebXML Messaging Services 3.0

The OASIS XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF) TC has approved
XLIFF 1.2 as a Committee Draft and submitted the specification for public
review. XLIFF is a specification for the loss-less interchange of localizable
data and its related information. The review ends 17 May.

The OASIS ebXML Messaging Services TC has approved ebXML Messaging Services
Version 3.0: Part 1, Core Features as a Committee Draft and submitted the
package for public review. This specification defines a communications-protocol
neutral method for exchanging electronic business messages. The review ends 17
May.

XLIFF: http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200705/msg00003.html
ebXML: http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200705/msg00002.html

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TCs host ebXML Webinar Week

The OASIS ebXML Technical Committees will host a week of free webinars devoted
to the ebXML OASIS Standards (ISO 15000). A different standard will be featured
each day, Monday through Thursday, 4-7 June, at 3:00 PM GMT (8:00 AM San
Francisco, 11:00 AM Boston, 4:00 PM London). Attend one or all four. Learn
about the current state of the standards from the people who created them and
who continue to advance this foundational work.

http://www.oasis-open.org/events/webinars/ebxml-2007.php

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Burton Catalyst Conference will feature XACML InterOp

Seven companies will collaborate to demonstrate interoperability of the
eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) 2.0 OASIS Standard at the
Burton Catalyst Conference in San Francisco, 28 June. Optimized for
large-scale, federated environments, XACML specifies the syntax and processing
rules for authorization. In the demo, multiple XACML components are deployed in
a hypothetical high value stock portfolio account, where customer and account
managers coordinate and approve transactions. Each vendor's implementation will
exchange policies with others, and policy enforcement points will request
authorization decisions from one another. BEA Systems, IBM, Jericho Systems,
Oracle, Red Hat, Securent, and other TC members will participate in this
InterOp.

http://catalyst.burtongroup.com/NA07/index.html

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IDtrust Member Section elects Steering Committee

June Leung, Abbie Barbir of Nortel, Arshad Noor, John Sabo of CA, and Ann
Terwilliger of Visa International have been elected to the Steering Committee
for the OASIS Identity and Trusted Infrastructure (IDtrust) Member Section.
IDtrust promotes greater understanding and adoption of standards-based identity
and trusted infrastructure technologies, policies, and practices. Each Steering
Committee member will serve a two-year term.

http://www.oasis-idtrust.org/steering-committee

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World Conservation Union (IUCN) and OASIS host Biodiversity Workshop

Representatives from the scientific community, conservation organizations,
government agencies, and intergovernmental groups met in Gland, Switzerland to
address the need for improved standards in the collection and exchange of
biodiversity data. The event, which was produced by the Biodiversity
Conservation Standards initiative of IUCN and the Conservation Commons in
partnership with OASIS, articulated the growing demand for easier integration
of biodiversity data with corporate decision support systems. A follow-on
workshop is planned for June in Arlington, Virginia, USA. All those interested
in advancing biodiversity data standards are invited to contact
peter.roden@oasis-open.org for information on getting involved.

http://www.oasis-open.org/events/OASIS-IUCNWorkshop2007/slides/OASIS-IUCN-Works
hop-Communique.pdf

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OASIS Test Assertions Guidelines TC holds first meeting

Jacques Durand of Fujitsu and Patrick Curran of Sun Microsystems were elected
co-chairs of the new OASIS TAG TC, which  held its first meeting on Thursday, 3
May. Devoted to improving the quality of standards, this TC will facilitate the
creation and use of test assertions by OASIS committees and others. The group's
member roster demonstrates wide geographic diversity, with representatives from
Korea, Russia, the UK and US. New participation is welcome.

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

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DSS, WBBPEL, WS-Context, WS-Transaction mail lists support developers

OASIS has created four new public mail lists, dss-dev, wsbpel-dev,
ws-context-dev, and ws-tx-dev, to foster support among developers of Digital
Signature Services, Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL),
WS-Context, and WS-Transaction OASIS Standards. Members and non-members are
encouraged to subscribe and share advice, questions, and experiences with one
another.