San Francisco, Calif. (RSA Security Conference); 11 April 2003 — The Liberty Alliance Project and OASIS today announced that the Liberty Alliance has contributed its version 1.1 federated network identity specifications to OASIS. The OASIS Security Services Technical Committee requested Liberty’s contribution to permit possible incorporation of Liberty version 1.1 specification features in future versions of the OASIS Open Standard Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML).

SAML, an XML-based security framework for authentication and authorization in Web services, serves as a key underpinning to the Liberty Alliance federated network identity architecture. In keeping with Liberty Alliance’s philosophy to leverage existing open standards whenever possible and build new functionality only if needed, the Alliance incorporated SAML into its Phase 1 specifications introduced in 2002.

The Liberty Alliance chose to extend SAML in version 1.1 to include additional security enhancements vital to identity management, such as opt-in account linking, simple session management and global log-out capabilities. For the benefit of SAML and Liberty implementers and the industry as a whole, Liberty Alliance is providing those extensions back to OASIS for future versions of SAML.

"Collaboration between standards groups enables the Web services industry to move forward at a pace that meets the needs of the market," said Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS. "As SAML evolves, it makes sense to leverage the work Liberty Alliance has already done in this area. Our mutual goal is to decrease time-to-market for new technology, enhance interoperability between products and drive broader adoption of open standards."

"We will continue to work closely with OASIS as the Liberty Alliance federated identity architecture evolves," said Michael Barrett, president of the Liberty Alliance Management Board and vice president for Internet strategy at American Express. "The Alliance will continue to develop Liberty’s Identity Federation Framework within the consortium, and plans to collaborate closely with OASIS on future enhancements."

"OASIS is a highly-regarded industry association and the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee’s interest in incorporating Liberty’s version 1.1 features into future versions of the SAML standard demonstrates the relevance and credibility of Liberty Alliance’s work," said Dan Blum, Senior Vice President and Research Director at the Burton Group. "It also shows the industry’s willingness to work together to solve some of the barriers impeding the growth of web services."

About the Liberty Alliance Project (www.projectliberty.org) The Liberty Alliance Project is a consortium formed to develop open standards for federated network identity management and identity-based services. The Alliance is made up of 160 members, representing a worldwide cross-section of organizations ranging from educational institutions and government organizations, to service providers and financial institutions, to technology firms and wireless providers. Federated identity will help drive the next generation of the Internet, offering businesses and consumers convenience and choice. Membership is open to all commercial and non-commercial organizations.

About OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, XML conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 2,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries.

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Carol Geyer

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Ketchum PR for Liberty Alliance

941-284-0403

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Geneva, Switzerland and Boston, MA, USA; 27 March 2003 — International standards bodies, OASIS and UN/CEFACT, will host the ebXML Showcase in London, 5-6 May 2003. Highlighting the growing use of Electronic Business XML (ebXML) in a range of industries as well as ebXML’s role in Web services, the two-day event will be held in conjunction with IDEAlliance’s XML Europe 2003 conference.

The ebXML Showcase is designed for developers and business managers worldwide with an interest in ebXML’s modular suite of specifications for conducting business over the Internet. The event will feature answers to real-life questions of adopting the UN/CEFACT and OASIS ebXML standards for exchanging business messages, establishing trading relationships, communicating data in common terms and defining and registering business processes. Attendees will also hear about the business benefits of managing electronic commerce through ebXML from existing ebXML end users and software suppliers.

Keynote presentations from Paul Murphy of the European Commission, Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS, and Ray Walker, chair of the UN/CEFACT Steering Group, will be featured at the ebXML Showcase. The program will also include updates from ebXML users in the telecommunications, shipping, publishing, manufacturing, and e-commerce industries. Representatives of the United Nations, Fujitsu, NIST, SeeBeyond, Sun Microsystems, and others will present.

"ebXML adoption around the world has been steadily building, and some of the most pervasive and exciting applications are being implemented in Europe," said Patrick Gannon. "The London Showcase will offer industry organizations and business users the chance to learn more about planning, integrating, and implementing various combinations of the ebXML specifications in practical business scenarios. The program will explore how ebXML is being used to facilitate Web services with the support of global product vendors and the backing of major standards-setting bodies."

Ray Walker added, "We are very pleased that the ebXML specifications will be submitted to the UN/CEFACT plenary immediately following the ebXML Showcase. This should pave the way for a UN recommendation to industry, commerce and governments on the use of ebXML."

The ebXML Showcase will feature a presentation by the European ebXML interoperability pilot (a project of the CEN/ISSS eBES Workshop), demonstrating interoperable implementations of the ebXML Messaging OASIS Open Standard in a real-life use case scenario. The demo will employ e-business integration scenarios currently being used in a live ebXML messaging implementation at STEEL24-7, the vertical hub steel industry.

The ebXML Showcase http://www.xmleurope.com/2003/ebxmlconference.asp will be open to all XML Europe 2003 conference attendees, as well as to those who would like to register for the two-day event separately.

About ebXML ebXML (www.ebXML.org), jointly sponsored by UN/CEFACT and OASIS, is a modular suite of specifications that enables enterprises of any size and in any geographical location to conduct business over the Internet. Using ebXML, companies now have a standard method to exchange business messages, conduct trading relationships, communicate data in common terms and define and register business processes. UN/CEFACT (www.uncefact.org) is the United Nations body whose mandate covers worldwide policy and technical development in the area of trade facilitation and electronic business. OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards.

For more information: Carol Geyer Director of Communications OASIS carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.941.284.0403

Boston, MA, USA; 10 March 2003 — The OASIS interoperability consortium today announced plans to define a standard way of using Web services architecture and technology to manage distributed resources. The new OASIS Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) Technical Committee will closely align its work with related activities at other standards groups, including the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Services Architecture Working Group and the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), and with other OASIS security and Web services efforts.

"As the number of Web services deployed across the extended enterprise increases, the ability to effectively manage those services will become critical to building out a comprehensive services-oriented architecture," said Winston Bumpus of Novell, co-chair of the OASIS WSDM Technical Committee. "By collaborating with other ongoing industry standards activities in this area, this new technical committee will play a important role in defining how services should be managed."

Heather Kreger of IBM, co-chair of the OASIS WSDM Technical Committee, added, "This work is immediately relevant for business integrators who use Web services, management system vendors, and Web service platform vendors. It also applies to ongoing work being done by business, government, and university sectors on provisioning, management, grid, and on-demand computing."

Initial members of the OASIS Web Services Distributed Management Technical Committee include Actional, BMC Software, Computer Associates, Confluent Software, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Novell, OpenNetwork, SeeBeyond, Sun Microsystems, Waveset, webMethods, and others.

Industry Support for WSDM

"BMC Software is pleased to be part of the OASIS Web Services Distributed Management Technical Committee," said Mary Smars, vice president, product management and development, PATROL, BMC Software. "As a leader in systems management, we understand that while Web services brings the opportunity for organizations to share data across companies to work together, it also brings significant management challenges. BMC’s goal is to help streamline and improve manageability of these services so that all can benefit from a strong Web Services environment."

"Web services are bringing a new dimension to interoperability and are dramatically affecting the way we manage the IT environment," said Dmitri Tcherevik, vice president in the Office of the CTO at Computer Associates. "CA is committed to supporting industry-wide initiatives to ensure the standards-based manageability of this evolving IT environment, so that customers can gain its full business benefits while optimizing the efficiency of their IT operations."

"The industry has recognized that Web service management is a core requirement for mission-critical deployment of distributed applications. As a leading provider of Web services management products, Confluent Software is pleased to support the formation of the OASIS WSDM Technical Committee," said Dr. Sekhar Sarukkai, co-founder and CTO, Confluent Software Inc. "Confluent will contribute key customer learnings in order to help the new committee successfully deliver on the creation of a Web services-based architecture and technology–in line with what enterprises have told us they need."

"HP is focusing strategic investments in improved manageability, including management of Web services and management through Web services, critical to offering customers the flexibility, adaptability and the economic benefit they require," said Nora Denzel, senior vice president, HP Software Global Business Unit. "As the recognized leader in adaptive management software, HP is committed to the OASIS WSDM Technical Committee; and, on behalf of our customers, we are working with strategic partners to reduce the complexity and costs of managing technology."

"Management is a key component in the Web services stack, and the ability to manage Web services between enterprises and across disparate computing platforms is critical," said Heather Kreger of IBM. "Providing a way to help enable and advance resource management will create new business opportunities for vendors and developers. We are excited to be working with the Web services and management communities to develop these necessary specifications."

"Just as security is a prime concern for our customers looking to deploy Web services, so too is the need to effectively manage those distributed Web services across their organizations – and the WSDM standard will provide an ideal vehicle to accomplish this," said Winston Bumpus, director of standards for Novell. "To that end, Novell brings a wealth of experience in network management to this technical committee, and we are pleased to provide leadership in the important work being conducted by this group."

"With every new wave of technology adoption comes a new set of management challenges. Waveset is committed to providing innovative security management solutions that address these challenges for its customers and partners," says Darran Rolls, Director of Technology for Waveset Technologies Inc. "Defining a standards-based management model for Web services will be a critical part of the end-to-end systems architecture for successful Web services deployments."

"webMethods has played a very active role in writing and promoting management standards based on Web services technologies, exemplified by our efforts in co-creating the OMI specification," said Matt Green, director, Business Technology Group, webMethods, Inc. "We consider our work with the OASIS Web Services Distributed Management Technical Committee to be important for the future development of a Web services management framework. We look forward to helping further drive the adoption of Web services by providing a simple and cost-effective means to manage Web services and other resources in the production environment."

About OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org)

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, XML conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 2,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries.

For more information:

Carol Geyer Director of Communications OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.941.284.0403

Boston, MA, USA; 26 February 2003 — Members of the OASIS standards consortium announced plans to collaborate on the development of a generic and open model for ensuring reliable message delivery for Web services. The new OASIS Web Services Reliable Messaging (WS-RM) Technical Committee will work to establish a standard, interoperable way of achieving reliability at the SOAP messaging level and potentially with other messaging protocols.

The WS-Reliability specification, published by Fujitsu, Hitachi, Oracle, NEC, Sonic Software, and Sun Microsystems, will be submitted as input for the OASIS WS-RM Technical Committee. Other contributions are welcome. The group plans to work closely with related OASIS Technical Committees, such as the ebXML Messaging Services and the Web Services Security teams, and with relevant efforts of other organizations, such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Services Architecture Working Group.

According to Thomas Koulopoulos, Delphi Group CEO, "Through WS-RM, OASIS is once again demonstrating a leadership role in the movement towards building a services-based architecture. The initiative is a critical step forward in creating a solid foundation for virtualization and the underlying, broad-based processes that are critical to its adoption."

"Interoperability, ease-of-implementation, and ease-of-use are our fundamental goals," stated Tom Rutt of Fujitsu, chair of the OASIS WS-RM Technical Committee. "We are determined to build on existing standards wherever possible so that the results of our work will interoperate and not overlap with Web services specifications that are being developed by other open, recognized, standards bodies."

The OASIS Reliable Messaging specification will address message persistence, acknowledgement and resending, elimination of duplicate messages, ordered delivery, and delivery status awareness for sender and receiver applications. It will provide WSDL definitions for reliable messaging, and the message formats will be specified as SOAP headers and/or body content.

Members of the OASIS WS-RM Technical Committee include Commerce One, Cyclone Commerce, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IONA, NEC, Oracle, SAP, See Beyond, Sonic Software, Sun Microsystems, webMethods, WRQ, and others.

Under the rules adopted by the OASIS WS-RM Technical Committee, each participant has agreed to provide a free license to any of its intellectual property rights which someone building a product to the final technical specification would need. Participation in the technical committee remains open to all organizations and individuals, and OASIS will host an open mail list for public comment.

Industry Support for WS-RM

"Fujitsu is committed to contribute its expertise in high reliability communication and messaging software to the OASIS WS-RM Technical Committee in order to realize an open, royalty-free reliable messaging specification for Web services," said Yasushi Ishida, General Manager of Strategy and Technology Division, Software Group for Fujitsu Limited. "We have already demonstrated the high level of our commitment to this goal by our involvement in the collaborative publication of the initial WS-Reliability draft specification, and by our leadership role in the formation of the OASIS WS-RM Technical Committee. We are also very honored to have Tom Rutt of Fujitsu serve as chair of this group."

"As a supplier of XML-based messaging technology for more than three years, IONA is very pleased to support the proposal to charter a technical committee at OASIS to develop a royalty-free reliable messaging specification for Web services," said Eric Newcomer, CTO at IONA. "A reliable messaging standard is key to wider adoption of Web services in mission critical applications."

"Reliable messaging based on open standards is essential for Web services to meet real-world business needs," said Don Deutsch, Vice president of Standards Strategy and Architecture for Oracle Corporation. "Oracle is pleased to co-sponsor the OASIS Web Services Reliable Messaging Technical Committee and to contribute our enterprise software expertise to this effort."

"By providing an open standard for a SOAP-based reliable transport, WS-Reliability will help accelerate adoption of asynchronous Web services, making them relevant for an even wider range of standards-based integration across the extended enterprise and cross-company collaboration challenges. Sonic Software is pleased to be a sponsor of the OASIS WS-RM Technical Committee," said Dave Chappell, vice president and chief technology evangelist, Sonic Software.

"Sun is pleased to work with other industry leading vendors to sponsor this essential OASIS effort," said Mark Bauhaus, vice president Sun ONE Java Web Services. "The WS-RM work is a tremendous step forward in terms of enabling complex business-to-business transaction and real time enterprise application integration. We encourage industry participation and input from those vendors who share our unequivocal commitment to open and royalty-free Web services standards."

"At WRQ, we believe that the WS-Reliability standard is a significant step in moving the industry closer to business-ready Web services," said Scott Rosenbloom, chief strategist at WRQ. "To make that happen, the industry needs to take Web services standards to the next level. Once reliable messaging is added, more companies can confidently take advantage of Web services technology to simplify interoperability among enterprise systems."

About OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org)

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, XML conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 2,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries.

For more information:

Carol Geyer Director of Communications OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.941.284.0403

Boston, MA, USA; 18 February 2003 — The OASIS interoperability consortium today announced that its members have approved the Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) as an OASIS Open Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. XACML allows developers to express and enforce policies for information access over the Internet. “XACML is designed to enable the interoperability of a broad range of administration and authorization products by providing a universal language for authorization policy. Its flexibility and features for supporting large scale, federated environments will literally set the standard for the next generation of authorization products,” explained Hal Lockhart of BEA Systems, co-chair of the OASIS XACML Technical Committee. “Policies applied consistently across environments and across vendor products is the cornerstone of good security,” added Carlisle Adams of Entrust, co-chair of the OASIS XACML Technical Committee. “Coupled with secure mechanisms for carrying requester attributes–such as SAML assertions, Java permissions, or WS-Security tokens–XACML is a key component in an authorization infrastructure that can span Web services, J2SE, and other e-business environments.” The OASIS XACML specification was developed by Entrust, IBM, OpenNetwork, Quadrasis, Sterling Commerce, Sun Microsystems, and other members of the OASIS Extensible Access Control Markup Language Technical Committee. Before becoming an OASIS Open Standard, XACML first completed an extensive public review and was approved by the OASIS XACML Technical Committee. Then, the specification demonstrated its readiness through multiple implementations, after which XACML was reviewed and approved by the OASIS membership as a whole. “Ratification as an OASIS Open Standard means that developers can deploy XACML with confidence,” said Karl Best, vice president of OASIS. “We congratulate and thank the members of the OASIS XACML Technical Committee for all their outstanding efforts in advancing XACML as the newest OASIS Open Standard.” XACML is the latest addition to the growing OASIS portfolio of security standards. It joins another recently approved OASIS Open Standard, the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), as well as emerging specifications advanced within OASIS such as WS-Security, Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML), Digital Signature Services (DSS), and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Industry Support for XACML “The ratification of XACML as an OASIS Open Standard reaffirms OASIS’ leadership in interoperable secuirty standards for XML,” said Edward Cobb, VP of Architecture and Standards, BEA Systems. “XACML and SAML as completed standards, and in-process work such as WS-Security, are the foundation for securing eBusiness interactions. We congratulate the OASIS XACML Technical Committee on reaching this important milestone.” “DataPower applauds the OASIS XACML Technical Committee on their efforts to address a key part of the security area for distributed systems. Their common framework should greatly help accelerate the move away from proprietary systems and towards open networks. DataPower looks forward to suporting rich access control as defined by XACML in our XML-aware network devices,” said Rich Salz, chief security architect at DataPower Technology Inc. “As a leader in delivering enhanced Internet security solutions, Entrust is very proud to have played a role in the development of the XACML 1.0 specification, and we are pleased to see the overwhelming support it has received,” said Brian O’Higgins, chief technology officer at Entrust, Inc. “XACML 1.0, in conjunction with the recently approved SAML standard, will provide critical functionality for a comprehensive authorization architecture. OASIS has taken yet another significant step forward in solving the Internet security puzzle.” “Sun believes that flexible and interoperable access control standards are critical for the future of network computing and for the development of secure Web services,” said Mark Bauhaus, vice president of Java Web services at Sun. “That’s why we have supported and continue to support the XACML standard. Sun announced today that we are releasing our XACML implementation under an Open Source license. This will help developers build secure Web services and enterprise applications, delivering cost savings and simplification to our customers.” About OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, XML conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 2,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries. For more information: Carol Geyer Director of Communications OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209

Boston, MA, USA; 10 February 2003 — Members of the OASIS standards consortium have announced plans to collaborate on the development of XML-based standards for emergency management and incident preparedness and response. The new OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee will define standards to enable vital information exchange between local, state and federal agencies including law enforcement, medical professionals, companies, and other responders to natural and man-made disasters and emergency situations. “The OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee is an important step in creating interoperability for the Responder Community. As an integral part of the Disaster Management e-Gov Initiative, it is a true partnership between industry and government. Most important, the effort is being led by the emergency management industry,” said Mark G. Zimmerman, Program Manager, Disaster Management E-Gov Initiative, Office of the CIO, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). “The output of this OASIS committee will be a critical component for the Federal Enterprise Architecture as well as the Disaster Management e-Gov Initiative. Developing these XML standards is in keeping with the spirit and intent of the President’s Management Agenda e-Gov effort of using information tools to serve the citizen. It could not come at a more critical time in our Nation’s history.” The scope of the OASIS activity will include unified incident identification, emergency GIS data accessibility and usage, notification methods and messages, situational reporting, source tasking, asset and resources management, monitoring and data acquisition systems, and organizational coordination. “Studies conducted under the Homeland Security Act agree that the need for standards in this area is acute. Currently, emergency management is being handled by disparate systems using proprietary architectures and platforms that pose enormous technical challenges to coordinating activities and sharing information,” explained R. Allen Wyke of Blue292, chair of the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee. “The efforts at OASIS will allow greater interoperability and open communication that ultimately will reduce both human and financial losses.” The OASIS effort is supported by the EM-XML Consortium, a group comprised of both industry and government to facilitate collaboration among all parties responsible for preparing, responding, and recovering from incidents and emergencies of any kind. “There is a unanimity of positive response across industry and government for the development of emergency management standards to address the critical interoperability problems at the heart of homeland security,” said Matt Walton of E Team, chair of the EM-XML Consortium Steering Committee. “This strong support not only validates the need for creating standards, but also shows that XML is the right technology and OASIS the appropriate place to solve these fundamental interoperability issues.” Blue292, Boeing, E Team, IBM, MTG Management Consultants, National Center for Crisis and Continuity Coordination (NC4), Oracle, Wells Fargo, and other OASIS members will participate in the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee. “Any company that is developing software or hardware solutions for risks, incidents, emergencies, or disasters should be represented in this work,” noted Scott McGrath, director of membership for OASIS. “The standards developed by this committee will benefit both public agencies and private organizations responsible for meeting safety and security requirements for their communities, as well as the companies that provide products and solutions to support these needs.” Participation in the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee remains open to all organizations and individuals. OASIS will host an open mail list for public comment, and completed work will be freely available to the public without licensing or other fees. Information on joining OASIS can be found on http://www.oasis-open.org/join. Industry Support for the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee “Blue292 has always believed in open architectures and products, with the founding principle that value is not inherently in the technology, but in how that technology can be applied. By supporting the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee, we have taken a step in removing the barriers that currently exist at emergency operation and disaster recovery centers, so that we can focus on providing features, tools, and products to help save lives,” said Susan K. Acker, president, CEO and co-founder of Blue292. “When an emergency occurs, not only do the responding organizations need interoperable voice communications, they need to share data as well. This allows them to develop the common situational awareness that is the critical success factor during emergency response activities,” said Kevin Minds, director, Boeing Mobile Broadband Solutions. “By the end of this year, the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee will have developed an industry standard that allows different emergency response groups to share information across their various decision support software platforms.” “The forming of the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee is a significant step toward the creation of a comprehensive set of standards that will accelerate emergency response time among public safety organizations,” said Steve Davis, CEO of MTG Management Consultants, L.L.C. “MTG is proud to lend its experience and expertise in providing highly specialized IT planning and business process review services to state and local public safety organizations. We look forward to supporting this valuable effort to advance incident preparedness.” “The challenges of homeland security require an unprecedented level of communication and coordination, not only between government agencies at all levels, but equally important, between government and business. The absence of interoperable emergency management information systems severely hinders our nation’s ability to protect our critical infrastructure,” said Jim Montagnino, Vice President and General Manager of NC4 (The National Center for Crisis and Continuity Coordination). “The efforts of the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee are vital to advancing NC4’s goal of enabling effective coordination between the public and private sector before, during, and after crises.” “As XML has emerged as the premier method for data exchange, many large commercial organizations have sought to leverage the technology for their own unique information requirements,” said David Robinson of Wells Fargo. “Data exchange is especially relevant for those involved in emergency and incident management systems because data will originate from a variety of systems that do not inherently communicate with one another. The OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee will define and develop an emergency/incident specific XML standard to enable data exchange between public and private institutions on diverse platforms and applications.” About OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, XML conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 2,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries. For more information: Carol Geyer Director of Communications OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209

Boston, MA, USA; 23 January 2003 — The OASIS standards consortium today announced the formation of a new technical committee to develop a universal global framework for supporting rapid discovery and sharing of suspected criminal and terrorist evidence by law enforcement agencies. The OASIS LegalXML Lawful Intercept XML (LI-XML) Technical Committee was formed to meet critical needs emerging from several national and intergovernmental mandates around the world, including the recently passed United States Homeland Security Information Sharing Act of 2002, the new Lawful Intercept additional protocol of the European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, and e-Government mandates in Europe and the United States. “As the ability for criminals and terrorists to access technology increases, the challenge for law enforcement to detect, comply with legal process, and implement evidence discovery tools also grows,” noted Anthony M. Rutkowski of VeriSign, chair of the OASIS LegalXML LI-XML Technical Committee. “Government agencies as well as providers of electronic communication services worldwide will benefit from uniform XML schema that facilitates fully electronic receipt, authentication, and implementation of lawful process.” Rutkowski added that the enhanced precision, authentication, and audit features provided by LI-XML will result in greater public trust in the traditionally sensitive area of legal discovery. As part of the OASIS LegalXML Member Section, the LI-XML specification will be designed to support an end-to-end legal process where law enforcement, justice, and security agencies are the principal beneficiaries. LI-XML Technical Committee members plan to work closely with related OASIS efforts including the LegalXML Electronic Court Filing and OASIS e-Government Technical Committees. “LI-XML is the latest in a growing number of OASIS Technical Committees that address the needs of the public sector,” noted Karl Best, vice president of OASIS. “We are encouraged to see government agencies and representatives from around the globe joining OASIS to advance this effort, along with our e-Government, Tax XML and other LegalXML initiatives.” Participation in the OASIS LegalXML LI-XML Technical Committee remains open to all organizations and individuals. OASIS will host an open mail list for public comment, and completed work will be freely available to the public without licensing or other fees. Information on joining OASIS can be found on http://www.oasis-open.org/join. About OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, XML conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 2000 participants representing over 300 member companies as well as individual members in 100 countries around the world. For more information: Carol Geyer Director of Communications OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209

Boston, MA, USA; 22 January 2003– The OASIS standards consortium today launched the first in a series of XML.org Focus Areas to provide domain-specific content on XML standards. XML.org Focus Areas for Insurance (http://insurance.xml.org/), Human Resources (http://hr.xml.org/), and Printing & Publishing (http://publishing.xml.org/) are now publicly available, and new XML.org Focus Areas for other vertical and horizontal industries will be introduced periodically. Each XML.org Focus Area covers news, standards and initiatives, vendors, consortia, trade associations, government agencies and implementers, events, and resources germane to a specific domain. Through XML.org, OASIS partners with experts in each Focus Area to provide content and editorial guidance. The XML.org Focus Area on Insurance has been developed in conjunction with ACORD, a nonprofit association that facilitates the development and use of standards for the insurance, reinsurance and related financial services industries. The XML.org Focus Area on Human Resources has been developed in cooperation with the HR-XML Consortium, a non-profit organization that develops and promotes XML specifications to enable e-business and the automation of human resources-related data exchanges. The XML.org Focus Area on Printing & Publishing has been developed in cooperation with IDEAlliance (founded as Graphic Communications Association), a membership organization that advances user-driven, cross-industry solutions for all publishing and content-related processes. “XML.org Focus Areas make it easy for people to track XML standards efforts and XML-related news in their specific area of interest,” explained Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS. “By partnering with experts such as ACORD, HR-XML and IDEAlliance, OASIS is confident that the XML.org Focus Area content will remain comprehensive and relevant to the needs of companies adopting XML-related industry standards.” “As an organization committed to collaboration, ACORD is very excited about the opportunity to be the Insurance Content Provider for XML.org,” said Gregory Maciag, president and CEO, ACORD. “Our relationships with insurance trade associations, standards organizations and regulatory bodies around the world will provide a robust view of XML developments from the insurance and financial services industry perspective.” “Standards within any one industry or enterprise function create opportunities and have ramifications beyond the domain in which they were created,” commented Chuck Allen, Director, HR-XML Consortium, Inc. “This is why the HR-XML Consortium is pleased to support Focus Areas on XML.org that put cross-industry standards news and resources in one place,” said Allen. “XML evolved from the publishing world into a specification with much broader application. IDEAlliance (formerly GCA) continues at the forefront to foster standards and best practices based on XML for publishers,” stated Marion Elledge, Executive Vice President, IDEAlliance. “As the Content Partner for the XML.org Printing & Publishing Focus Area, IDEAlliance welcomes the opportunity to share our expertise in the publishing arena in ways that impact cross-industry initiatives.” XML.org Focus Areas will also serve as access-points to related information on the OASIS-hosted Cover Pages, widely regarded as the most comprehensive public resource for information on XML, SGML, and related technical standards for the structured information community. Future XML.org Focus Areas will include Financial Services, Defense Logistics, Education, Tax/Accounting, E-Government, Security, Retail, Localization & Globalization, E-Marketplaces, and others. XML.org is sponsored by BEA Systems, Global Exchange Services, ISOGEN International, and SAP. About ACORD http://www.acord.org ACORD (Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development) is a global, nonprofit insurance association whose mission is to facilitate the development and use of standards for the insurance, reinsurance and related financial services industries. ACORD accomplishes its mission by remaining an objective, independent advocate for sharing information among diverse platforms. ACORD Standards and services improve efficiency and expand market reach. Affiliated with ACORD are hundreds of insurance and reinsurance companies, and thousands of agents and brokers, related financial services organizations, software providers, and industry organizations worldwide. About HR-XML http://www.hr-xml.org The HR-XML Consortium is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to enabling e-commerce and human resources data interchange universal. The mission of the HR-XML Consortium is to spare employers and vendors the risk and expense of having to negotiate and agree upon data interchange mechanisms on an ad-hoc basis. By developing and publishing open data exchange standards based on Extensible Markup Language (“XML”), the Consortium aims to provide the means for any company to transact with other companies without having to establish, engineer, and implement many separate interchange mechanisms. HR-XML’s efforts are focused on standards for staffing and recruiting, benefits enrollment, payroll, competencies, and workforce management. About IDEAlliance www.idealliance.org IDEAlliance (International Digital Enterprise Alliance) is a not-for-profit membership organization. Its mission is to advance user-driven, cross-industry solutions for all publishing and content-related processes by developing standards, fostering business alliances, and identifying best practices. IDEAlliance has been a leader in information technology since 1966 (founded as Graphic Communications Association) having fostered the development and adoption of standards such as ADIS, GRACoL, ICE, JIFFI, Mail.dat, papiNet, PRISM, PROSE XML, SPACE XML, SGML, and XML. About OASIS http://www.oasis-open.org OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, XML conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. OASIS has more than 600 corporate and individual members in 100 countries around the world. For more information: Carol Geyer Director of Communications OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209

Boston, MA, USA; 8 January 2003 — Members of the OASIS standards body are collaborating to address a key challenge in distributed directory services and data sharing–establishing a common identification scheme that can be used across all domains, applications, and transport protocols. The OASIS Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Technical Committee will define a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme and a corresponding Uniform Resource (URN) namespace that meet these requirements, as well as basic mechanisms for resolving XRIs and exchanging data and metadata associated with XRI-identified resources. “URIs are one of the three pillars of Web architecture, but most URI schemes were developed before the era of XML and Web services,” said Bill Washburn, President and Managing Director of the XNS Public Trust Organization (XNSORG), which intends to contribute the Extensible Name Service (XNS) specifications to seed the work of the OASIS committee. “With its other initiatives related to XML, security, and directory services, we felt OASIS was the right forum to develop a URI syntax that meets the demands of identifying and sharing resources and data persistently across different organizations and applications.” Drummond Reed of OneName, co-chair of the OASIS XRI Technical Committee added, “XRI syntax will be fully federated, the way DNS and IP addressing are today, yet will still address the problem of how to identify the same logical resource stored in different physical locations–for example, the same file stored on different file servers, or the same invoice stored in different accounting systems.” The syntax will allow for identifiers optimized for both human and machine readability, and will provide for internationalization in the same manner as XML. Participation in the OASIS XRI Technical Committee remains open to all organizations and individuals. OASIS will host an open mail list for public comment, and completed work will be freely available to the public without licensing or other fees. Information on joining OASIS can be found on http://www.oasis-open.org/join. Industry Support for XRI “XML-based Web services continue to propagate at a rapid pace and this is escalating the demand to extend the WWW addressing and linking capabilities in order that applications can more easily locate necessary resources for their use,” said Eugene Kuznetsov, founder, President and CTO at DataPower Technology Inc. “As a active member of OASIS, DataPower fully supports the Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Technical Committee and their work to define such a URI scheme and URN namespace to meet these requirements.” “Rationalizing the relationship between identity and directory services–whether in the context of users, applications, machines, or data–holds the key to eliminating many of the obstacles, such as adequate security, extensibility and effective management, that are hindering the adoption of Web services,” said Winston Bumpus, director of standards for Novell. “In an effort to better integrate Web services and identity, Novell is pleased to be working with many of the industry’s leading companies as part of the Extensible Resource Identifier Technical Committee within OASIS. Novell brings years of experience in directory services and secure identity management to the committee, and we look forward to creating a standard that will allow organizations to more easily and confidently adopt Web services.” About OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, XML conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. OASIS has more than 600 corporate and individual members in 100 countries around the world. For more information: Carol Geyer Director of Communications OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209

Boston, MA, USA; 7 January 2003 — The OASIS standards consortium has organized a new technical committee to advance adoption of the Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) for Web services and other applications. PKI serves as a foundation to enable secure e-business transactions. The new technical committee has been created within the OASIS PKI Member Section, a group formed as a result of the recent transition of the advocacy group, PKI Forum, to OASIS. The OASIS PKI Technical Committee will serve as a global information resource for PKI. It will work to increase awareness of digital certificates as an important component for managing access to network resources, delivering secured electronic messages and conducting electronic transactions. Deliverables from the committee will include white papers, implementation guidelines, and conformance tests to promote the adoption of the PKI technology. “We want to address the issues behind the successful deployment of digital certificates to meet business and security requirements. Our collaboration will focus on overcoming technical and integration challenges and promoting greater interoperability,” explained Terry Leahy of Wells Fargo, chair of the new OASIS PKI Technical Committee. “The OASIS PKI Technical Committee will serve as a community forum for exchanging information on using PKI and digital certificates in application-focused standards and projects, and as a mechanism for the creation of documents related to the implementation of PKI internationally.” PKI serves as a foundation for other Web services standards, and the new technical committee joins the growing body of security specifications being developed within OASIS, such as WS-Security, the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), the XML Access Control Markup Language (XACML), the Rights Language, the Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) and XML Common Biometric Format (XCBF) and the Digital Signature Services (DSS) protocol. “PKI and digital certificates have become key components of identity-related security services,” said John Sabo of Computer Associates, vice chair of the OASIS PKI Technical Committee. “We expect the Technical Committee to cover a broad range of business and technical issues and address the practical use of PKI in support of high trust applications on the Web and in other networked environments.” Participation in the OASIS PKI Technical Committee remains open to all organizations and individuals. OASIS will host an open mail list for public comment, and completed work will be freely available to the public without licensing or other fees. Information on joining OASIS can be found on http://www.oasis-open.org/join. Industry Support for PKI “As a transparent technology integrated into a total identity management system, PKI will be a key enabling technology for the use of Web services and other software technologies in high-trust application environments,” said Ron Moritz, senior vice president for eTrust security solutions at Computer Associates. “Computer Associates strongly supports the work of the OASIS PKI Technical Committee and looks forward to working closely with the other committee participants to ensure the effectiveness of next-generation PKI implementations.” “DataPower believes that the demand for more robust and efficient methods of verifying user identity and protecting sensitive information across Web service applications becomes ever more critical as XML-based messaging continues to proliferate,” says Eugene Kuznetsov, founder, president and CTO at DataPower Technology Inc. “PKI is the security infrastructure and the framework for managing keys and digital certificates; DataPower wholly supports the new OASIS PKI Technical Committee as it addresses the industry’s need for successful deployment of digital certificates and the technical and interoperability issues around that.” “As a market-leader in public-key infrastructure, Entrust is pleased to be able to contribute its expertise as a member of the new OASIS PKI Technical Committee,” said Brian O’Higgins, chief technology officer, Entrust, Inc. “We plan to leverage our 10-year history in deploying PKI to customers worldwide to help the new committee successfully reach its goals of providing an international forum for sharing best practices and driving further deployments and interoperability.” “Digital certificates are of growing importance worldwide, as organizations focus on lowering both cost and risk for expanded e-business initiatives,” said Bill McQuaide, senior vice president, Authentication division at RSA Security. “As a leader in a wide range of standards activities across many standards groups, RSA Security is pleased to continue to support PKI-related activities under the new OASIS structure.” “The creation of this group couldn’t come at a better time,” said Dr. Phillip Hallam Baker, Principal Scientist and Web Services Security Architect at VeriSign, Inc. “The industry has now recognized the need to integrate trust and security into Web Services infrastructure, and it clearly makes sense to embrace PKI as a cornerstone of those efforts.” About OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, XML conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. OASIS has more than 600 corporate and individual members in 100 countries around the world. For more information: Carol Geyer Director of Communications OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209

Boston, MA, USA; 17 December 2002 — Members of the OASIS standards consortium have formed a technical committee to develop standards to automate the translation and localization process as a Web service. The effort brings together DataPower, IBM, the Localisation Research Centre, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and others in a collaboration that will use Web services as the backbone to a workflow linking the tasks that comprise a complex software localization project. “Any publisher of content requiring translation should be able to automatically connect to and use the services of any translation vendor over the Internet without previous direct communication,” said Peter Reynolds of Bowne Global Solutions, chair of the OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee. “Web services hold enormous potential for improving the way localization business is conducted, but first the industry must come together to agree on standards. With the support of many of the largest software vendors and localization experts worldwide, we are confident that we can build the consensus that’s needed at OASIS.” The new OASIS Technical Committee will concentrate first on defining service types that are relevant to the software/content localization and translation industry. Their specification will drive the development of Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) documents that will ultimately be published in a Universal Description and Discover Integration (UDDI) registry and potentially also in an ebXML registry. “The core of a localization Web service is the ability for publishers to submit content that requires translation, request quotes or other services from vendors, and for each party to understand what the other needs. To accomplish this, metadata must be used that is standardized and publicly available,” explained Reinhard Schaler, director of the Localisation Research Centre (LRC) at Ireland’s University of Limerick. “A key objective of the OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee will be to build the intelligence into the infrastructure by establishing a set of business process terminology that the software/content localization and translation industries will find comprehensive and complete.” The OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee joins another localization effort at OASIS–one that works to develop an XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF). The two groups plan to coordinate their efforts. Tony Jewtushenko of Oracle, chair of the OASIS XLIFF Technical Committee explained the relationship, “The OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee will define standard interfaces between the disparate actors that work together in a distributed software localization process. As localizable data moves through the localization actors, XLIFF-aware tools can be used with minimal implementation cost. We expect our experience with XML-based localization technology will result in close relations and shared membership with the OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee.” “The OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee is a clear example of how industry players can come together to jointly develop Web services standards for their critical business interactions,” stated Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS. “Industries that conduct their Web services standards development within OASIS have the opportunity to interface directly with developers of key foundational Web services efforts, such as UDDI, WS-Security, SAML, and more than 45 others.” Industry Support for Translation Web Services “The need for localization and translation services is readily apparent in today’s global economy. As a member of OASIS, DataPower fully supports the work of the new OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee to spearhead standards that make automated localization and translations via XML and Web services a reality,” says Eugene Kuznetsov, founder, President and CTO at DataPower Technology Inc. “IBM is committed to advancing the Web services architecture and is pleased to participate in the OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee,” said Steve Holbrook, Program Director, IBM emerging e-business standards. “The ability to describe, publish and find localization and translation services using open standards will benefit our customers and help accelerate Web services adoption worldwide.” “SAP’s globalization, internationalization, localization and translation GILT) activities are key factors to SAP’s success in the marketplace. We have always acknowledged the benefits gained through the use and implementation of industry standards. Accordingly, we have actively promoted GILT-related standards such as Translation Memory eXchange (TMX), Open Lexicon Interchange Format (OLIF), and XML Localization Interchange Format (XLIFF). Web services will have a major impact on the way GILT will be organized in the future. We are ready to provide substantial input to the new OASIS Technical Committee. This input will be based on our expertise related to the management of outsourced translation by SAP Language Services, and SAP’s GILT infrastructure developed by our MultiLingual Technology Group,” said Willi Therre, Senior Vice President, Application Infrastructure for SAP. About OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, XML conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. OASIS has more than 600 corporate and individual members in 100 countries around the world. For more information: Carol Geyer Director of Communications OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209

Boston, MA, USA; 17 December 2002 — Members of the OASIS standards consortium have formed a technical committee to develop standards to automate the translation and localization process as a Web service. The effort brings together DataPower, IBM, the Localisation Research Centre, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and others in a collaboration that will use Web services as the backbone to a workflow linking the tasks that comprise a complex software localization project. “Any publisher of content requiring translation should be able to automatically connect to and use the services of any translation vendor over the Internet without previous direct communication,” said Peter Reynolds of Bowne Global Solutions, chair of the OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee. “Web services hold enormous potential for improving the way localization business is conducted, but first the industry must come together to agree on standards. With the support of many of the largest software vendors and localization experts worldwide, we are confident that we can build the consensus that’s needed at OASIS.” The new OASIS Technical Committee will concentrate first on defining service types that are relevant to the software/content localization and translation industry. Their specification will drive the development of Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) documents that will ultimately be published in a Universal Description and Discover Integration (UDDI) registry and potentially also in an ebXML registry. “The core of a localization Web service is the ability for publishers to submit content that requires translation, request quotes or other services from vendors, and for each party to understand what the other needs. To accomplish this, metadata must be used that is standardized and publicly available,” explained Reinhard Schaler, director of the Localisation Research Centre (LRC) at Ireland’s University of Limerick. “A key objective of the OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee will be to build the intelligence into the infrastructure by establishing a set of business process terminology that the software/content localization and translation industries will find comprehensive and complete.” The OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee joins another localization effort at OASIS–one that works to develop an XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF). The two groups plan to coordinate their efforts. Tony Jewtushenko of Oracle, chair of the OASIS XLIFF Technical Committee explained the relationship, “The OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee will define standard interfaces between the disparate actors that work together in a distributed software localization process. As localizable data moves through the localization actors, XLIFF-aware tools can be used with minimal implementation cost. We expect our experience with XML-based localization technology will result in close relations and shared membership with the OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee.” “The OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee is a clear example of how industry players can come together to jointly develop Web services standards for their critical business interactions,” stated Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS. “Industries that conduct their Web services standards development within OASIS have the opportunity to interface directly with developers of key foundational Web services efforts, such as UDDI, WS-Security, SAML, and more than 45 others.” Industry Support for Translation Web Services “The need for localization and translation services is readily apparent in today’s global economy. As a member of OASIS, DataPower fully supports the work of the new OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee to spearhead standards that make automated localization and translations via XML and Web services a reality,” says Eugene Kuznetsov, founder, President and CTO at DataPower Technology Inc. “IBM is committed to advancing the Web services architecture and is pleased to participate in the OASIS Translation Web Services Technical Committee,” said Steve Holbrook, Program Director, IBM emerging e-business standards. “The ability to describe, publish and find localization and translation services using open standards will benefit our customers and help accelerate Web services adoption worldwide.” “SAP’s globalization, internationalization, localization and translation GILT) activities are key factors to SAP’s success in the marketplace. We have always acknowledged the benefits gained through the use and implementation of industry standards. Accordingly, we have actively promoted GILT-related standards such as Translation Memory eXchange (TMX), Open Lexicon Interchange Format (OLIF), and XML Localization Interchange Format (XLIFF). Web services will have a major impact on the way GILT will be organized in the future. We are ready to provide substantial input to the new OASIS Technical Committee. This input will be based on our expertise related to the management of outsourced translation by SAP Language Services, and SAP’s GILT infrastructure developed by our MultiLingual Technology Group,” said Willi Therre, Senior Vice President, Application Infrastructure for SAP. About OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, XML conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces. OASIS has more than 600 corporate and individual members in 100 countries around the world. For more information: Carol Geyer Director of Communications OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209