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Subject: OASIS News: 9 January 2007
OASIS News 9 January 2007 Welcome to OASIS News, a weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international standards consortium. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Unstructured Operation Markup Language TC Forms Members of OASIS have organized a TC to develop the Unstructured Operation Markup Language (UOML). The OASIS UOML TC will define and develop an open, XML-based operation standard for unstructured documents. The TC is convened by Alex Wang of Sursen Co. The TCs first meeting will be a teleconference on January 16. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200612/msg00005.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Committee Submits OpenDocument v1.1 for Consideration as OASIS Standard The OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC has submitted OpenDocument v1.1 to be considered as an OASIS Standard. OpenDocument defines an XML schema for office applications and its semantics. Version 1.0 of OpenDocument was approved as an OASIS Standard in May 2005 and as ISO/IEC 26300 in May 2006. On 16 January, a Call For Vote on version 1.1 will be issued to all OASIS member organizations. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200701/msg00001.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Review ebXML Deployment Profile Templates The OASIS ebXML Implementation, Interoperability and Conformance (IIC) TC has approved a number of ecXML Deployment Profile Templates as Committee Drafts and submitted the package for public review. The deployment profile templates enables user communities to specify their use of the ebXML BPSS, CPPA, and Message Service specifications. The review ends 7 March. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200701/msg00004.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Review SAML-related specifications The OASIS Security Services (SAML) TC has approved multiple SAML-related specifications as Committee Drafts and submitted the package for public review. The specifications relate to shared credentials, text-based challenge response, and X.500 Attribute Profile. The review ends 7 March. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200701/msg00005.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reveiw WS-BPEL v2.0 The OASIS Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL) TC has approved the Web Services Business Process Execution Language WS-BPEL v2.0 specification set as a Committee Draft and submitted the package for public review. WS-BPEL defines a language for specifying business process behavior based on Web services. The review ends 22 January. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200701/msg00006.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Review XLIFF v1.2 The OASIS XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF) TC has approved the XLIFF v1.2 specification set as a Committee Draft and submitted the package, which includes several supporting non-normative specifications, for public review. XLIFF describes the interchange of localisable software and documentbased objects and related metadata. The review ends 20 January. http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200701/msg00002.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ongoing Public Reviews Ends 12 Jan: WS-BusinessActivity v1.1 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200611/msg00007.html Ends 19 Jan: EDXL-HAVE v1.0 http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200611/msg00012.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS Security Services (SAML) TC Approves IPR Transition Members of the OASIS Security Services (SAML) TC have voted to adopt the "RF on RAND" Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) mode for their work. As defined in the OASIS IPR Policy, "RF on RAND" operates in the same manner as RAND, however, it does not permit the patent holder to charge fees or royalties for the license. http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OGC Announces Adoption of ebRIM Metamodel for Catalogues The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced that is has selected the ebXML Registry Information Model (ebRIM) OASIS Standard as the preferred cataloguing metamodel foundation for future application profiles of the OpenGIS Catalogue Service Web (CS-W) specification. CS-W defines the information required to support discovery and search for data and services, and ebRIM provides the requirements to support registration of services such as those specified in many OGC standards, as well as geospatial data and other resources. The OGC is an international industry consortium of more than 335 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications. http://xml.coverpages.org/OGC-ebRIM-200701.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Events 2007 29 Jan-2 Feb DITA Boot Camp Redwood City, USA http://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/ditabootcamp.shtml 20-21 Mar Topic Maps 2007 Oslo, Norway http://www.topicmaps.com/tm2007/ 15-20 Apr Fourth Annual OASIS Symposium San Diego, USA http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/ 8-9 May Web Services Security Conference & Exhibition Baltimore, MD http://www.unatekconference.com/ All events: http://www.oasis-open.org/events/calendar.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OASIS News is published in English, Japanese, Korean, and Russian. 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