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To OASIS Members:

This is a Call For Vote to approve the following Committee Specification set as an OASIS Standard:

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Documents:
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Ballot:
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The Committee Specification has had its required 60 day public review, and the review materials were sent out to the membership of OASIS for the required 15-day familiarization period. (Those materials can be found at:
[link to publicly accessible tc-announce of familiarization].) As the required review and familiarization periods have now been completed it is time to vote. The applicable section of the OASIS TC Process is at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process-2009-07-30.php#OASISstandard.

Voting to approve the work product of our Technical Committees is a key step in the OASIS process, to better assure our broader user community of the quality and applicability of the methods or TCs create. I strongly encourage each member organization to consider the works submitted for approval and participate by casting a ballot.

As each OASIS member organization has only one vote, participating employees of your organization should provide their input to you, their voting representative, so that you can decide how to vote on behalf of your organization. We point that out to them, on our [tc-announce] list, concurrently with this message.

The voting representative from each OASIS member organization should submit the organization’s vote by 11:45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (US) [dd month] 2010. Voting will be conducted using the OASIS member database tools. To cast your ballots, go to the Voting group ballot page at http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/voting/ballots.php. You will need to log-in to the database tools in order to cast your ballots; if you have not yet obtained your username and password please contact Scott McGrath (scott.mcgrath@oasis-open.org) for help.

You may change your ballot until the time that balloting closes. Ballots will be publicly archived. Comments may be made but are not solicited as the specifications already have been subject to public review.

Mary

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To OASIS members, Public Announce Lists:

The OASIS [tcname] TC has recently approved the following specification as a Committee Draft and approved the package for public review:

[spec names/titles]

The public review starts today, [dd mmm yyyy], and ends [dd mmm yyyy]. This is an open invitation to comment. We strongly encourage feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of OASIS work. We also welcome interested parties to join the TC as it continues to further development of its specifications. [or more specific info from TC]. Please feel free to distribute this announcement within your organization and to other appropriate mail lists.

More non-normative information about the specification and the technical committee may be found at the public home page of the TC at [1] below. Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located via the button marked “Send A Comment” at the top of that page, or directly at [2] below.

Submitted comments (for this work as well as other works of that TC) are publicly archived and can be viewed at [3] below. All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members.

The specification document and related files are available here:

Editable Source:
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PDF:
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HTML:
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Schema:
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[Additional information about changes/enhancements/impact from previous version]

We also call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy applicable to the work of this technical committee, which can be found at [4] below. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member’s patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification. OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC’s work, at [5] below.

OASIS and the [tcname] TC welcome your comments.

Mary P McRae
Director, Standards Development
Technical Committee Administrator
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
web: http://www.oasis-open.org
twitter: @fiberartisan #oasisopen
phone: 1.603.232.9090

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[5] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/%5Btcname%5D/ipr.php

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To OASIS members, Public Announce Lists:

The OASIS [tcname] TC has recently approved the following specification as a Committee Draft and approved the package for public review:

[spec names/titles]

The public review starts today, [dd mmm yyyy], and ends [dd mmm yyyy]. This is an open invitation to comment. We strongly encourage feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of OASIS work. We also welcome interested parties to join the TC as it continues to further development of its specifications. [or more specific info from TC]. Please feel free to distribute this announcement within your organization and to other appropriate mail lists.

More non-normative information about the specification and the technical committee may be found at the public home page of the TC at [1] below. Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located via the button marked “Send A Comment” at the top of that page, or directly at [2] below.

Submitted comments (for this work as well as other works of that TC) are publicly archived and can be viewed at [3] below. All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members.

The specification document and related files are available here:

Editable Source:
[link]

PDF:
[link]

HTML:
[link]

Schema:
[link]

[Additional information about changes/enhancements/impact from previous version]

We also call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy applicable to the work of this technical committee, which can be found at [4] below. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member’s patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification. OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC’s work, at [5] below.

OASIS and the [tcname] TC welcome your comments.
Mary P McRaeDirector, Standards DevelopmentTechnical Committee AdministratorOASIS: Advancing open standards for the information societyemail: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org web: http://www.oasis-open.orgtwitter: @fiberartisan #oasisopenphone: 1.603.232.9090[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=%5Btcname%5D
[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=%5Btcname%5D[3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/%5Btcname%5D-comment/
[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php
[5] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/%5Btcname%5D/ipr.php

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OASIS WS-Calendar Committee Addresses Need for Precise, Secure Exchange of Scheduling Data in Smart Grid and Other Applications

Boston, MA, USA; 13 September 2010 — The OASIS international consortium has formed the Web Services Calendar (WS-Calendar) Technical Committee to adapt existing calendaring standards (those used in human interactions) for Web services. WS-Calendar data structures are being designed for use inside other specifications and standards, with an initial focus on utility pricing and scheduling in the US federal “Smart Grid” open standards program and similar electricity supply re-engineering projects. The Committee’s work is based on the iCalendar (IETF RFC 5545) XML serialization specification (xCal) from The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (CalConnect.org). An instrumental player in the formation of the OASIS WS-Calendar Technical Committee, CalConnect.org developed the CalWS-Restful Web Services Calendaring API specification specifically for the OASIS project. “CalConnect and OASIS enjoy a mutually productive collaboration, and we expect CalWS and WS-Calendar to continue to evolve together,” said Dave Thewlis, Executive Director of CalConnect. “At CalConnect, we will continue to advance CalWS to meet our own requirements and those of OASIS, and we intend to resubmit future versions of CalWS for inclusion in future versions of WS-Calendar. Our shared goal is to ensure these two specifications remain harmonized.” Although the initial focus of WS-Calendar is on electricity supply and demand, the specification’s time and price data elements are designed to be used in any area where the common exchange of scheduling information is critical, such as business process applications, emergency management, and smart buildings. “There are clear advantages in a standard Web services calendaring model in a robust transactional Smart Grid, where pricing can change by the second,” explained Toby Considine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, chair of the OASIS WS-Calendar Technical Committee. “Obviously, there also are great benefits for many other transactional and business systems in a standard representation for basic calendaring and time sequence statements that works between domains. These data elements will help extend the easy, ‘apples-to-apples’ interoperability of iCalendar into a much broader world of inter-domain transactions.” Use cases and requirements on Demand Response (DR) and Distributed Energy Resources (DER) functions defined in the US Smart Grid project have been contributed to WS-Calendar by the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB). CalConnect, NAESB, OASIS and other standard bodies are cooperating and interactively sharing their work in this effort, making WS-Calendar an early success for the key goal of open standards cooperation established by the U.S. government for the Smart Grid. Participation in the WS-Calendar Technical Committee is open to all interested parties. Archives of the Committee’s work are accessible to both members and non-members. OASIS is expected to announce a first public review of WS-Calendar 1.0 next month. In recognition of the level and closeness of the joint work done by the OASIS WS-Calendar Technical Committee and the CalConnect XML Technical Committee, OASIS and CalConnect are providing press releases in parallel; the CalConnect release may be found at http://www.calconnect.org/publicity/20100913-calconnect-oasis.doc. Additional information: OASIS WS-Calendar Technical Committee CalConnect XML Technical Committee About OASIS: OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society. OASIS promotes industry consensus and produces worldwide standards for the Smart Grid, security, Web services, XML conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, and other applications. OASIS open standards offer the potential to lower cost, stimulate innovation, grow global markets, and protect the right of free choice of technology. OASIS members broadly represent the marketplace of public and private sector technology leaders, users and influencers. The consortium has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries. http://www.oasis-open.org Press contact: Carol Geyer Senior Director, Communications OASIS carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209 (office) +1.941.284.0403 (mobile)

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OASIS Interoperability Demo Features Eight Open Source and Commercial Implementations of OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.2 on Desktop, Mobile Devices, and in the Cloud

Budapest, Hungary; 2 September 2010 — Eight implementations of the Open Document Format (ODF) OASIS Standard were orchestrated in a real-world scenario today at the OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon) at the Central European University in Budapest. The OASIS ODF 1.2 Interop showcased both open source and commercial software applications processing ODF documents on the desktop, in the cloud, and on mobile devices. The interoperation of Open Document files in a real world scenario was led by Ruven Pillay, representing the Centre de recherche et restauration des musée de France, within the Louvre museum. Pillay observed, “ODF enables our research team to use the right application for our diverse research challenges. We use the ODF Python library from lpOD to manage and manipulate large document repositories programmatically, while we are also able to choose from a number of desktop application for more traditional document editing. With ODF we are free to choose the right solution from many diverse sources.” Documents for the scenario were provided by Louvre Labs, originating from several sources: a Louvre document repository, a local desktop file system, and a cloud-based collaborative editing environment provided by Open Framework Systems (OFS). Eighty documents, containing many images of artwork in various states of restoration, were programmatically extracted and stored as a new ODF presentation file. This new presentation file was reformatted with the ODF Python programming library, applying templates provided by KOffice and OpenOffice.org for automated styling. The resulting ODF file was read and edited by a number of desktop ODF applications including IBM Lotus Symphony, OpenOffice.org Novell Edition, and Oracle Open Office. The edited documents were then reviewed and approved by a research colleague using a Nokia N900 smart phone. By accessing the metadata, including the author’s vCard data, the N900 automatically connected to the author where a discussion completed the review and approval process. OASIS members demonstrated many facets of ODF including its use of existing open standards such as RDF for metadata, MathML for mathematic expressions, and XForms for forms data. The new OpenFormula language and application support for accessibility technologies such as screen readers were also shown. These demonstrations illustrated the breadth and power of the format to handle enterprise, academic, and government needs. ODF is offered for implementation on a royalty-free basis. Participation in the OASIS ODF Technical Committee, ODF Adoption Committee, and ODF Interoperability and Conformance Committee is open to all companies, non-profit groups, governments, academic institutions, and individuals. As with all OASIS projects, archives of the Committees’ work are accessible to both members and non-members, and OASIS hosts an open mail list for public comment. “With new accessibility technologies implemented in IBM Lotus Symphony, we are pleased to offer modern office productivity support for Open Document Format users of all abilities. By contributing this innovative software to the OpenOffice.org community, we hope to expand the ODF application ecosystem to serve a broader range of business users and consumers,” said Robert Sutor, Vice President of Open Source and Linux, IBM. “Novell is pleased with the advancement of the ODF specification reaching this demonstration milestone for the much-anticipated upcoming version 1.2. This Interoperability Demo is a great opportunity to demonstrate how open standards are implemented and supported throughout a wide range of products, hardware and open source software. Open standards like ODF affirm Novell’s commitment to cross-platform and cross-vendor office document interoperability, which is at the core of our value proposition to our customers,” said Michael Meeks, Go-oo.org and OpenOffice.org Novell Edition Architect. Additional information: OooCon OpenDocument XML.org OASIS ODF Technical Committee OASIS ODF Adoption Committee OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance Committee About OASIS: OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) drives the development, convergence, and adoption of open standards for the global information society. A not-for-profit consortium, OASIS advances standards for SOA, security, Web services, documents, e-commerce, government and law, localisation, supply chains, XML processing, and other areas of need identified by its members. OASIS open standards offer the potential to lower cost, stimulate innovation, grow global markets, and protect the right of free choice of technology. The consortium has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries. http://www.oasis-open.org Press contact: Carol Geyer OASIS Senior Director, Communications carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209

Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) 1.2 Receives Approval as OASIS Standard

Boston, MA, USA; 12 August 2010 — The OASIS open standards consortium today announced approval of the Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) version 1.2, a message format for exchanging emergency alerts and public warnings over all kinds of networks. Advanced via an international collaboration of the public and private sectors, CAP 1.2 is now an official OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. EDXL-CAP allows a consistently well structured message to be disseminated simultaneously over many different warning systems. The standard is simple to understand and easy to implement. Its all-hazard, all-media format means it can provide notifications via radio, television, cell phones, email, and other media. The new version of CAP delivers digital signature support, which offers added security and authentication for next-generation alerting systems. “CAP has been driven by practitioners, reviewed by vendors, and adopted internationally. Practitioner involvement ensures that CAP meets the needs of the disaster management and responder communities. Vendor participation guarantees availability of a wide range of products built to support the standard. International adoption enables CAP to be useful for emergency response around the world, especially for disasters that cross national boundaries,” said Elysa Jones of WSI, chair of the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee. CAP is endorsed by organizations and government agencies around the world. The standard has been approved as ITU-T 1303. It’s supported by the World Meteorological Organization, as well as Environment Canada and the U.S. National Weather Service. The U.S. Geological Survey uses CAP for earthquake and tsunami warnings. Canada and the U.S. have adopted profiles of CAP that define events, location codes, and other parameters specific to their needs. The Canadian Profile (CAP-CP) supports automated translation of emergency messages, critical for Canada’s bi-lingual society. The U.S. Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Profile (IPAWS) defines codes in support of the Emergency Alert System (EAS). Other countries and groups are expected to develop similar CAP profiles. CAP is part of the EDXL family of standards, which also includes the Distribution Element (DE), Hospital Availability Exchange (HAVE), and Resource Message (RM), as well as two specifications under development, Situation Reporting (SitRep) and Tracking of Emergency Patients (TEP). EDXL-HAVE recently played an instrumental role in Haiti by enabling response workers to transport earthquake victims to available and appropriate emergency care facilities. CAP is offered for implementation on a royalty-free basis. Participation in the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee and Emergency Management Adoption Committee is open to all companies, non-profit groups, governments, academic institutions, and individuals. As with all OASIS projects, archives of the Committees’ work are accessible to both members and non-members, and OASIS hosts an open mail list for public comment. CAP will be featured in the upcoming OASIS EDXL Interoperability Demo at the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) conference, 28 October – 4 November in San Antonio, Texas. Participating in the demo will be AtHoc, Desktop Alert, U.S. DHS, WSI, and others. Support for CAP 1.2 AtHoc “The OASIS CAP 1.2 ratification is another important milestone for making multi-channel and interoperable alerting systems a reality. The ability to alert people quickly using multiple and redundant communications channels across multiple systems and devices is critical for achieving an effective emergency response. Interoperability between these communication channels is the key for successful alert dissemination to all targeted populace during an emergency.” — Aviv Siegel, CTO Desktop Alert “The emergence of CAP has significantly impacted the way information sharing is accomplished within DoD and numerous other government agencies. Information silos created by proprietary vendor protocols greatly limited information sharing between these agencies until CAP arrived. Emergency operation centers and other critical government agencies using CAP may now share critical message information across disparate networks, disparate platforms and proprietary vendor communication protocols. The end result is a truly unified mass notification capability without technological or competitive barriers.” — Howard Ryan, CEO and Founder U.S. DHS Science and Technology Command “The continued advancement of CAP is vital to enhancing the ability to provide alerts and warnings to the public. The partnership of CCI and OASIS on this version of CAP will provide the foundation for the nation’s IPAWS alert and warning protocol.” — Denis Gusty, EDXL Program Manager, Science and Technology Command, Control and Interoperability (CCI) Division U.S. DHS FEMA National Continuity Programs “With the American public as our most trusted stakeholder, this is yet another huge OASIS accomplishment towards ensuring Americans receive timely information about emergencies that helps increase the likelihood of their survival and minimize damage.” — Damon C. Penn, Assistant Administrator, National Continuity Programs U.S. DHS FEMA IPAWS Program Management Office “FEMA is very proud of our partnership with OASIS and is excited about the release of the CAP standard. This is a huge step towards ensuring interoperability and establishing standards for emergency notification across the spectrum of alerting systems.” — Antwane V. Johnson, Director, IPAWS Program Management Office WSI “The approval of CAP 1.2 marks another milestone in the history of this vitally important international standard. WSI is proud to play a part in this work, having provided leadership to the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee since 2004. By being interoperable with other CAP-compliant applications, WSI’s OnAlert and AdaptAlert systems rapidly convey alerts and warnings to the right people to save lives and protect property.” — Patrick J. Gannon, President and COO Additional information: OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee OASIS Emergency Management Adoption Committee EDXL Product Directory About OASIS: OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) drives the development, convergence, and adoption of open standards for the global information society. A not-for-profit consortium, OASIS advances standards for SOA, security, Web services, documents, e-commerce, government and law, localisation, supply chains, XML processing, and other areas of need identified by its members. OASIS open standards offer the potential to lower cost, stimulate innovation, grow global markets, and protect the right of free choice of technology. The consortium has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries. http://www.oasis-open.org Press contact: Carol Geyer OASIS Senior Director, Communications carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209

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