A brief summary of the status of the OASIS TCs may be found at http://oasis-open.org/presentations/tc_status.ppt. For more information about each specific TC, go to the TC's web page by clicking on the links below.

All official announcements related to OASIS TCs are publicly archived at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/

Current Committees

OASIS Access Control Markup Language TC
The purpose of the XACML TC is to define a core schema and corresponding namespace for the expression of authorization policies in XML against objects that are themselves identified in XML. The schema will be capable of representing the functionality of most policy representation mechanisms available at the time of adoption. It is also intended that the schema be extensible in order to address that functionality not included, custom application requirements, or features not yet envisioned. Issues to be addressed include, but are not limited to: fine grained control, the nature of the requestor, the protocol over which the request is made, content introspection, the types of activities authorized.

OASIS Automotive Repair Information Technical Committee
The purpose of the OASIS Automotive Repair Information Technical Committee is to develop a standard format to enable access to emission-related repair, diagnostic and technical information with respect to the vehicles covered by the scope of Directive 70/220/EEC, i.e. passenger cars and light commercial vehicles. The project will take account of similar standards or legislation adopted in other world areas.

OASIS Business Transactions TC
The Business Transactions Technical Committee will develop technology for business transactions on the Internet. Long lasting business transactions spanning multiple enterprises pose a unique challenge to B2B systems. The interdependent workflows among multiple trading partners, which drive business transactions, need to be coordinated to ensure that the outcome of the transaction is reliable. The purpose of this committee is to develop an agreed to set of requirements for a business transaction protocol; evaluate the BEA technology submission and other available technologies made available to the committee and determine their suitability to the requirements identified by the committee; and produce a final specification for a business transaction protocol which works in conjunction with existing business messaging standards, particularly those being developed in the ebXML initiative.

OASIS Conformance TC
The committee provides a forum where interested parties can discuss issues that are pertinent to the interoperability and conformance of structured information standards. The objective of the committee is to share our conformance knowledge and experience with each other, with the OASIS membership and committees, and with the public through discussions, white papers, and guidance documents.

OASIS Content Assembly Mechanism TC
The purpose of the Content Assembly Mechanism TC is to provide a specification of a generalized mechanism in XML whereby implementers can deliver the means to bring together business process context and the localized implementation business rules needed to take a raw industry standard schema instance and combine that with actual business information content, context and roles and produce a valid consistent XML document instance.

OASIS Controlled Trade TC
The purpose of the Controlled Trade Markup Language (CTML) Technical Committee (TC) is to develop a unified trade control vocabulary that supports an international collection of business documents (e.g., trade applications, cases, licenses, delivery verification certificates, etc.) through the extension and expansion of an existing XML vocabulary.

OASIS Customer Information Quality TC
The objective of the Technical Committee (TC) on Customer Information Quality (CIQ) is to deliver XML standards for customer profile/information management to the industry. Customer data forms the foundation to build effective customer relationships. To be effective, customer data must meet the highest possible standards of both quality and integrity. A global standard is becoming a necessity in today's competitive global customer-centric business culture to understand customer data, maintain quality and integrity of customer data and to exchange/share customer information across systems, tools, databases and platforms. This helps in building successful Customer Information Systems such as Data Warehouses, Operational Data Marts, CRM/e-CRM, and Single Customer View.

This committee is committed to developing XML Standards for Name and Address data management and Customer Information/Profile Management that are application-independent, vendor neutral, open and importantly, "Global".

OASIS Digital Signature Services TC
The OASIS Digital Signature Services Technical Committee will develop techniques to support the processing of digital signatures. This includes defining an interface for requesting that a web service produce and/or verify a digital signature on a given piece of data and techniques for proving that a signature was created within its private key validity period.

OASIS Directory Services TC
The Directory Services Markup Language (DSML) bridges the world of directory services with the world of XML. DSML 1.0 provided a means of representing directory information in XML. This Technical Committee is working on DSML 2.0 which will add support for querying and modifying directories.

OASIS DocBook TC
DocBook is a DTD (both SGML and XML versions are available) that is particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications).

Because it is a large and robust DTD, and because its main structures correspond to the general notion of what constitutes a "book"; DocBook has been adopted by a large and growing community of authors writing books of all kinds. DocBook is supported "out of the box" by a number of commercial tools, and there is rapidly expanding support for it in a number of free software environments. These features have combined to make DocBook a generally easy to understand, widely useful, and very popular DTD. Dozens of organizations are using DocBook for millions of pages of documentation, in various print and online formats, worldwide.

OASIS ebXML Collaboration Protocol Profile and Agreement TC
The committee will continue the work of ebXML on Collaboration Protocol Profiles (CPPs) and Collaboration Protocol Agreements (CPAs). A CPP defines one business partner's technical capabilities to engage in electronic business collaborations with other partners by exchanging electronic messages. A CPA documents the technical agreement between two (or more) partners to engage in electronic business collaboration. The committee will develop enhancements to the existing version 1 specifications that will result in at least one substantive new version. It will also coordinate its work with appropriate standards bodies within and outside OASIS. In addition, the committee will maintain version 1.0 of the ebXML Collaboration-Protocol Profile and Agreement Specification and will issue minor updates as needed.

OASIS ebXML Implementation, Interoperability, and Conformance TC
The OASIS ebXML Implementation, Interoperability and Conformance Technical Committee will provide a means for software vendors to create infrastructure and applications which adhere to the ebXML specifications and are able to interoperate. The TC will create a conformance plan; a set of reference implementation guidelines; a set of base line interoperability tests; and will provide guidelines and direction for thrid-party creation of conformance laboratories. The TC will align its work with the ebXML Joint Coordinating Committee, with the work taking place in all of the other ebXML TCs, whether under OASIS or UN/CEFACT, and with other standard bodies whose work is leveraged in present or future ebXML specifications including W3C and UN/CEFACT.

OASIS ebXML Joint Committee (JC)
This Joint Committee is for the purpose of coordinating the technical work of the OASIS ebXML TCs. Each of the TCs who are members of this JC have appointed members to represent them in coordinating discussions. The JC has no technical deliverables; it is for coordination only.

OASIS ebXML Messaging Services TC
The OASIS ebXML Messaging Technical Committee will develop and recommend technology for the transport, routing and packaging of business transactions using standard Internet technologies. This work will foster consistency across specifications developed in other forums and carry forward the work started in the ebXML Transport, Routing and Packaging project team.

OASIS ebXML Registry TC
The objective of the committee is to develop one or more specifications for interoperable registries and repositories for SGML- and XML-related entities, including but not limited to DTDs and schemas. XML.org, an initiative of OASIS, intends to construct and maintain a registry and repository in accordance with these specifications, including an interface that enables searching and browsing of the contents of a repository of those entities. The registry and repository are to be designed to interoperate and cooperate with other similar registries and repositories.

OASIS Education XML TC
The purpose of the OASIS Education XML TC is to represent international pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade (PK12) interests by developing XML requirements documentation for shared extensible user profiles, controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and thesauri, and other needed specifications; translation and publication of a set of XML schema and specifications based on the authoritative Data Handbooks published by the US Education Department National Center for Educational Statistics; and publish a series of Implementation Handbooks and Best Practice Guidelines for the PK12 community of practice, which document and illustrate the utilization and integration of OASIS XML specifications and other XML specifications and standards in the PK12 context.

OASIS e-Government TC
The purpose of the e-Government TC is to to provide a forum for Governments internationally to voice their needs and requirements with respect to XML-based standards which can be handed off to relevant OASIS TCs (if they exist); provide a mechanism for the creation of best practice documents relative to the adoption of OASIS specs/standards within Governments internationally; to promote the adoption of OASIS specs/standards within Governments which could include the creation of implementation-oriented pilot projects to involve software vendors and participating government agencies to demonstrate the use of OASIS specs/standards; and to work with other OASIS channels (e.g. XML.org for schema registry and/or information portal), act as a clearinghouse of information related to applicable specs/standards as well as activities and projects being conducted by Governments in the adoption of XML-based systems and standards.

OASIS Election and Voter Services TC
The purpose of the Election and Voter Services Technical Committee is to develop a standard for the structured interchange of data among hardware, software, and service providers who engage in any aspect of providing election or voter services to public or private organizations. The services performed for such elections include but are not limited to voter role/membership maintenance (new voter registration, membership and dues collection, change of address tracking, etc.), citizen/membership credentialing, redistricting, requests for absentee/expatriate ballots, election calendaring, logistics management (polling place management), election notification, ballot delivery and tabulation, election results reporting and demographics.

OASIS Emergency Management TC
The purpose of the Emergency Management TC is to advance the fields of incident preparedness and response. The TC will design, develop, and release XML Schema-based standards that begin to solve these real-world problems. These standards will not only provide a framework for data exchange, but also for functionality and service accessibility, all with the common goal of seamless application and data interoperability.

OASIS Entity Resolution TC
The objective of the Entity Resolution TC is to provide facilities to address issue A of the OASIS catalog specification (TR 9401). These facilities will take into account new XML features and delete those features of TR 9401 that are only applicable to SGML, as well as those features applicable only to issue B in TR 9401.

OASIS Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Technical Committee
The purpose of this TC is to define a URI scheme and a corresponding URN namespace for distributed directory services that enable the identification of resources (including people and organizations) and the sharing of data across domains, enterprises, and applications.

OASIS HumanMarkup TC
The purpose of the HumanMarkup Technical Committee is to develop and promote the Human Markup Language and related efforts. These recommendations function to allow the conveyance of human characteristics through XML. HumanML will be an XML Schema and RDF Schema specification, containing sets of modules which frame and embed contextual human characteristics including cultural, social, kinesic, psychological, and intentional features within conveyed information.

OASIS LegalXML Electronic Court Filing TC
The Electronic Court Filing Technical Committee will develop specifications for the use of XML to create legal documents and to transmit legal documents from an attorney, party or self-represented litigant to a court, from a court to an attorney, party or self-represented litigant or to another court, and from an attorney or other user to another attorney or other user of legal documents.

OASIS LegalXML eContracts TC
The purpose of the eContracts Technical Committee is to develop open XML standards for the markup of contract documents to enable the efficient creation, maintenance, management, exchange and publication of contract documents and contract terms.

OASIS LegalXML eNotarization TC
The purpose of the eNotarization TC is to develop an agreed set of technical requirements to govern self-proving electronic legal information.

OASIS LegalXML Integrated Justice TC
The purpose of the Integrated Justice Technical Committee is to develop XML specifications for exchanging data among justice system branches and agencies. While its principal focus will be on data pertaining to criminal cases, its scope will include certain data exchanges in civil cases, such as civil protection order, child support enforcement and dependency and neglect cases.

OASIS LegalXML Lawful Intercept TC
The purpose of the LegalXML Lawful Intercept TC is to produce a structured, end-to-end LegalXML Lawful Interception Process framework consisting of XML standards and authentication mechanisms, including the development and harmonization of identifiable related XML standards and XML translations of ASN.1 modules, including proprietary ones made available in accordance with IPR policies.

OASIS LegalXML Legislative Documents TC
The Legislative Documents, Citations, and Messaging Technical Committee exists to harmonize current DTD's and further develop open XML standards for the markup of legislative documents and a system of simple citation capability for non-legislative documents (e.g. newspaper articles). The primary goal is to allow the public to more easily participate in the democratic process by creating a more open, accessible, easier to parse, research and reference legislative documents.

OASIS LegalXML Legal Transcripts TC
The purpose of thr LegalXML Transcripts TC is to develop an XML compliant syntax for representing legal transcript documents either as stand-alone structured content, or as part of other legal records.

OASIS LegalXML Online Dispute Resolution TC
The LegalXML ODR TC mission is to develop open XML standards for the markup of information and documents used in online dispute resolution systems. The primary goal is to allow the public to gain standardized access to justice through private and government sponsored dispute resolution systems. These efforts will draw on standards that seek to establish electronic commerce and allow dispute resolution information to flow into agencies, court and corporations who sponsor or utilize dispute resolution services. The Technical committee will develop and review requirements, specifications and schemas for OdrXML and to harmonize current document type definitions (DTD) and schemas among developers, providers, vendors, agencies and other organizations involved in online dispute resolution.

OASIS Management Protocol TC
The purpose of the Management Protocol TC is to develop open industry standard management protocols to provide a web-based mechanism to monitor and control managed elements in a distributed environment based on industry accepted management models, methods, and operations, including, OMI, XML, SOAP, DMTF CIM, and DMTF CIM Operations. This work will help consolidate and deliver an industry standards protocol for manageing desktops, services, and networks across an enterprise or internet environments.

OASIS Open Office XML Format TC
The purpose of the Open Office XML Format TC is to create an open, XML-based file format specification for office applications.

OASIS Provisioning Services TC
The purpose of the OASIS Provisioning Services TC is to develop an end-to-end, open, XML-based framework specification for exchanging user, resource, and service provisioning information based on previous specifications such as ADPr, XRPM, ITML, and others.

Public Key Infrastructure TC (PKI TC)
The purpose of the PKI TC is to address issues related to the successful deployment of digital certificates to meet business and security requirements, as well as technical and integration/interoperability issues. The TC will increase the awareness of digital certificates as an important component when managing access to network resources, delivering secured electronic messages and conducting secure electronic transactions, and will provide a forum for a broad community utilizing PKI and digital certificates in application-focused standards and projects, as well as a mechanism for the creation of documents related to the implementation of PKI internationally.

OASIS Published Subjects for Geography and Languages TC (GeoLang TC)
This Technical Committee will define sets of published subjects for language, country, and region subjects, based on existing PSI sets and using existing code sets defined by recognised standards bodies such as the ISO and the UN. The published subjects will defined be in accordance with the guidelines for published subjects set by the OASIS Published Subjects TC.

OASIS RELAX NG TC
The purpose of this committee is to create a specification for a schema language for XML based on the TREX proposal http://www.thaiopensource.com/trex/). The key features of TREX are that it is simple, easy to learn, uses XML syntax, does not change the information set of an XML document, supports XML namespaces, treats attributes uniformly with elements so far as possible, has unrestricted support for unordered content, has unrestricted support for mixed content, has a solid theoretical basis, and can partner with a separate datatyping language (such W3C XML Schema Datatypes).

OASIS Rights Language TC
The purpose of the Rights Language TC is to define the industry standard for a digital rights language that supports a wide variety of business models and has an architecture that provides the flexibility to address the needs of the diverse communities that have recognized the need for a rights language.

OASIS Security Services TC
The purpose of the XML-Based Security Services TC is to define an XML framework for exchanging authentication and authorization information.

OASIS Tax XML TC
The purpose of the OASIS Tax XML TC is to research and analyze personal and business tax reporting & compliance information, represented in XML, to facilitate interoperability in a way that is open, flexible and international in scope. The products of Tax XML will include a vocabulary of terms, a repository of artifacts including XML templates, documents exchanged for tax compliance, best practices, guidelines and recommendations for practical implementation. It will focus on developing a common vocabulary that will allow participants to unambiguously identify the tax related information exchanged within a particular business context.

OASIS Topic Maps Published Subjects TC
The purpose of the Topic Maps Published Subjects Technical Committee is to promote the use of Published Subjects by specifying recommendations, requirements and best practices, for their definition, management and application. Public Subject is defined in the ISO 13250 Topic Maps standard and further refined as Published Subject in the XML Topic Maps (XTM) 1.0 Specification.

OASIS Translation Web Services
The purpose of the Translation Web Services TC is to define industry standard business process terminology which will then drive the development of an industry standard WSDL file and UDDI businessservice entries. The TC will define the service types that are relevent to the software/content localisation and translation industry. These will be defined and published within a specification with a public call for comment.

OASIS UDDI Specifications TC
The purpose of the UDDI Specication TC is to continue work on the Web services registry foundations developed and published by UDDI.org. The UDDI specifications form the necessary technical foundation for publication and discovery of Web services implementations both within and between enterprises.

OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) TC
The purpose of the UBL TC is to quickly develop a synthesis of existing XML business libraries, to develop a coordinated set of XML grammatical components that will allow trading partners to unambiguously identify the business documents to be exchanged in a particular business context. The TC will align the vocabulary and structures of UBL with the vocabulary and structures of other already existing business libraries, and implement a mechanism for the generation of context-specific schemas for basic business documents and their components through the application of transformation rules to a common XML source library.

OASIS User Interface Markup Language (UIML TC)
The purpose of the User Interface Markup Language (UIML) Technical Committee is to develop a specification for an abstract meta-language that can provide a canonical XML representation of any user interface (UI). The language should be capable of specifying the requirements, design, and implementation of any UI.

OASIS Vocabulary for XML Standards and Technologies TC (XMLvoc TC)
This Technical Committee will define a vocabulary for the domain of XML standards and technologies, which will provide a reference set of concept and relationship types that will enable common access layers and thus improved findability for all types of information relating to XML, related standards, and the XML community. The vocabulary items will be defined as Published Subjects, following the recommendations of the OASIS Topic Maps Published Subjects Technical Committee.

OASIS Web Services Distributed Management TC (WSDM TC)
The purpose of this TC is to define web services management, including using web services architecture and technology to manage distributed resources. This TC will also develop the model of a web service as a manageable resource.

OASIS Web Services for Interactive Applications TC
The purpose of the OASIS Web Services for Interactive Applications (WSIA) TC is to create an XML and web services centric framework for interactive web applications; harmonize WSIA as far as practical with existing web application programming models, with the work of the W3C, emerging web services standards, and with the work of other appropriate business information bodies; ensure that WSIA applications can be deployed on any tier on the network and remain target device and output markup neutral; and promote WSIA to the status of an international standard for the conduct of XML and Web Services based web application development, deployment and management.

OASIS Web Services Reliable Messaging TC (WS-RM TC)
The purpose of this TC is to create a generic and open model for ensuring reliable message delivery for Web services. Reliable message delivery is the ability to guarantee message delivery to software applications - Web services or Web service client applications - with a chosen level of quality of service (QoS).

OASIS Web Services Remote Portal TC (WSRP TC)
The WSRP TC will an XML and web services standard that will allow for the "plug-n-play" of portals, other intermediary web applications that aggregate content, and applications from disparate sources. These Remote Portlet Web services will be designed to enable businesses to provide content or applications in a form that does not require any manual content or application-specific adaptation by consuming applications. The TC will work with other OASIS web services TCs and will harmonize WSRP as far as practical with existing web application programming models, the work of the W3C, emerging web services standards, and with the work of other appropriate business information bodies.

OASIS Web Services Security TC
The purpose of the Web Services Security TC (WSS) is to continue work on the Web services security foundations published in the WS-Security specification and under the context of the Web Services Security roadmap published in April, 2002. WS-Security forms the necessary technical foundation for higher-level security services including Federation, also within the context of the Web Services Security roadmap.

OASIS XML Common Biometric Format TC (XCBF TC)
Biometrics are used to prove or help prove identity based on human characteristics such as DNA, fingerprints, iris scans, hand geometry, etc. This Technical Committee will define a common set of XML 1.0 encodings for the patron formats defined in CBEFF, the Common Biometric Exchange File Format (NISTIR 6529, available at http://www.nist.gov/NISTIR-6529-CBEFF). These formats will be specified in accordance with the ASN.1 schema definitions published in ANS X9.84:2000 Biometrics Information Management and Security For The Financial Services Industry© (available from the ANSI electronic bookstore at http://www.ansi.org).

OASIS XML Localisation Interchange File Format TC
The purpose of the XLIFF TC is to define a specification for an extensible localisation interchange format that will allow any software provider to produce a single interchange format that can be delivered to and understood by any localisation service provider. The format should be tool independent, standardised, and support the whole localisation process. It will comprehensively support common software data formats and be open enough to allow the development of tools compatible with an implementer's own proprietary data formats and company culture.

OASIS XSLT Conformance TC
The XSLT Conformance Technical Committee was formed to collect, develop and document a suite of tests for XSLT and XPath processors. With major contributions from Lotus and NIST, and help from other member companies, the committee is addressing the text of the W3C XSLT and XPath 1.0 Recommendations, establishing tests useful to those measuring the conformance of processors to the published W3C documents.

Retired Committees

OASIS XML Conformance TC
The OASIS XML Conformance Technical Committee provides a forum where XML vendors, content providers, and users can discuss issues that are pertinent to XML conformance and interoperability. The objective of this committee is to develop tests and associated documentation that can be used by developers and users alike to determine whether a particular XML processor adheres to the XML 1.0 Recommendation.