San Francisco, CA, USA; 7 April 2008 — At the RSA Conference today, members of the OASIS open standards consortium, in cooperation with the Health Information Technologies Standards Panel (HITSP), demonstrated interoperability of the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) version 2.0. Simulating a real world scenario provided by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the demo showed how XACML ensures successful authorization decision requests and the exchange of authorization policies.

"XACML is widely regarded as the standard for solving complex access control problems in the enterprise," noted James Bryce Clark, director of standards development at OASIS. "Today’s demo shows that XACML can play a key role in health care. By successfully enforcing fine-grained access control decisions to protected health information, XACML meets HITSP’s requirements for security and privacy."

"We’re pleased to work with OASIS on addressing the very sensitive issues related to the access of patient information," said John (Mike) Davis, standards architect with the VHA Office of Information in the Department of Veterans Affairs, and a member of the HITSP Security, Privacy and Infrastructure Technical Committee. "XACML helps ensure that patients, physicians, hospitals, public health agencies and other authorized users share critical information appropriately and securely."

The XACML Interop at the RSA 2008 conference utilizes requirements from Health Level Seven (HL7), ASTM International, and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The demo features role-based access control (RBAC), privacy protections, structured and functional roles, consent codes, emergency overrides and filtering of sensitive data. Vendors show how XACML obligations can provide capabilities in the policy decision making process. The use of XACML obligations and identity providers using the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) are also highlighted.

XAMCL Interop Participants:

Axiomatics "The XACML Interop demonstrates the power, speed, and flexibility which XACML delivers to application developers and IT users. XACML is the technology which will deliver efficient and future-proof authorization management for the service oriented world," said Erik Rissanen, CTO, Axiomatics AB.

BEA "The XACML Interop at the RSA conference illustrates BEA’s continuing commitment to the latest version of the XACML standard in AquaLogic Enterprise Security. Centralized access control policy that uses a standards-based framework is critically important to the success of SOA initiatives," said Geoff Charron, VP & Unit Executive.

Cisco "As a company that believes in open standards, Cisco is pleased to participate in the XACML Interop at RSA and excited by the increasing adoption of XACML across all segments of the industry," said Rajiv Gupta, vice president, policy management business unit, Cisco. "The Cisco Enterprise Policy Manager—formerly Securent Entitlement Management Solution—was one of the first commercial products to support XACML, and we remain committed to the standard."

IBM "This Interop session supports IBM’s approach to interoperability, in that significant customer value is possible when industry leaders work together. OASIS and these vendors that support XACML are moving towards improved levels of interoperability through our collaboration as demonstrated this week with the health care industry," said Anthony Nadalin, IBM Distinguished Engineer and chief security architect for IBM Tivoli Software.

Red Hat "XACML has proven to be a strong candidate in building complex access control infrastructures, not only in verticals such as the health care and financial industries, but also in the extension of access control for the various containers of an Enterprise Application Server such as the JBoss Application Server. Health care poses immense challenges in establishment of access control policies and enforcement. Patient privacy is an important issue that needs immediate focus, and its access control use cases have been driven by XACML in this interoperability. Emergency overrides of the privacy controls has been given prominence in this demo, along with the modeling of roles and privileges. XACML has the flexibility of extensions to solve similar complex use cases in other verticals," said Anil Saldhana, Leader and Chief Security Architect, JBoss Security and Identity Management, Red Hat Inc.

Oracle "XACML 2.0 can provide an authorization model for complex policies required by enterprise-scale applications and administrators. Through our support of XACML and participation in the OASIS InterOp event at the RSA conference, Oracle will demonstrate key authorization concepts important to our customers. These include role-based access control and access to medical records based on patient consent," said Prateek Mishra, director, Security Standards, Oracle.

Sun "Sun is committed to the industry’s collaborative efforts to develop and promote interoperability standards that facilitate the creation of dynamic federated identity networks," said Mark Herring, vice president of marketing, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems. "Support for XACML allows our customers to share access control policies across corporate boundaries and offers more dynamic standards-based tools for creating federated mashups. As a result, our customers can continue to expand their business reach while using open-standards to enforce security decisions and minimize security risk."

Additional information: XACML 2.0 OASIS Standard http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#xacmlv2.0 OASIS XACML Technical Committee http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/ XACML FAQ http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/faq.php

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 Director of Communications carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209 (office) +1.941.284.0403 (mobile)

Boston, MA, USA; 2 April 2008 — OASIS, the international open standards consortium, has formed a new technical committee to make it easier to validate the trustworthiness of businesses, projects, and people working and socializing in electronic communities. The new OASIS Open Reputation Management Systems (ORMS) Technical Committee will define common data formats for consistently and reliably representing reputation scores. ORMS will be relevant for a variety of applications including validating the trustworthiness of sellers and buyers in online auctions, detecting free riders in peer-to-peer networks, and helping to ensure the authenticity of signature keys in a web of trust. ORMS will also help enable smarter searching of web sites, blogs, events, products, companies, and individuals.

"The use of the Internet as a medium for social interaction, commerce, and collaboration places new emphasis on the need for standard reputation mechanisms. More and more, trust is based on verifiable claims and opinions of others online," explained Abbie Barbir of Nortel. "As the convener of the OASIS ORMS Technical Committee, I see that the challenge to be addressed with this new work is to define open reputation management systems that enable large sets of different and possibly contradictory opinions about a person, company, or product to be evaluated in a fair and meaningful way."

Because the majority of existing on-line rating, scoring and reputation mechanisms have been developed by private companies using proprietary schemas, there is currently no common method to query, store, aggregate, or verify claims between systems. The different sources of reputation data–user feedback channels (product ratings, comment forms), online user profiles, etc.– are each uniquely susceptible to bad actors, manipulation of data for specific purposes, and spammers.

"ORMS will provide standard ways to express assertions, evaluations and comparisons of rating and reputation data, making it easier to consume that data, aggregate it, and even ‘rate the raters’," said James Bryce Clark, director of standards development at OASIS. "This will make systems less susceptible to data manipulation, and help make trustworthiness scores more usable, constructive and contextually relevant."

ORMS will not attempt to define algorithms for computing reputation scores. Instead, the OASIS Committee will provide the means for understanding the relevancy of a score within a given context.

ORMS will be offered for implementation on a Royalty-Free basis. The new technical committee will hold its first meeting on 1-2 May, in conjunction with the OASIS Open Standards 2008 symposium in Santa Clara, California. Participation in the OASIS ORMS Technical Committee remains open to all interested parties. Archives of the work will be accessible to both members and non-members, and OASIS will offer a mechanism for public comment. The ORMS Technical Committee is affiliated with the OASIS IDtrust Member Section, a group that promotes greater understanding and adoption of standards-based identity and trusted infrastructure technologies, policies, and practices.

Support for ORMS

BEA "BEA is pleased to join in this effort," said Hal Lockhart, Office of the CTO at BEA Systems. "Developing reputation management standards is important to enabling agile business processes."

CA "CA welcomes and supports the formation of the OASIS ORMS Technical Committee. Reputation on the Internet and within the enterprise is a critical aspect of managing trust among participants in business transactions and social collaborations," said Vadim Lander, CA chief security architect. "Having an open standard for managing and providing reputation services will simplify the ability to include this important information in identity security solutions resulting in more secure and satisfactory business relationships."

Cordance "Reputation systems will without doubt play a major role in the emerging Internet identity layer," said Drummond Reed, Chief Architect of Cordance Corporation and co-chair of the OASIS XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) and XDI (XRI Data Interchange) Technical Committees. "In fact, a key purpose of the XRI digital identifier and XDI data sharing specifications is to provide the building blocks Internet reputation systems will need. So we are very pleased to be a founding member of the ORMS TC."

IBM "With the increasing use of ‘strong’ identities, regulated or unregulated, reputation plays an important part in the process of tracking an entity’s actions and creating a feedback loop for analysis of that data," said Anthony Nadalin, IBM Distinguished Engineer and chief security architect for IBM Tivoli Software. "The goal of this technical community is to look at standardized algorithms for this analysis and common data formats to develop working interoperability between these various reputation systems."

Additional information: OASIS ORMS Technical Committee http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/orms/ IDtrust XML.org http://idtrust.xml.org/ Open Standards 2008: Composability within SOA http://events.oasis-open.org/home/symposium/2008/

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 Director of Communications carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209 (office) +1.941.284.0403 (mobile)

Boston, MA, USA; 17 March 2008 — "Composability within SOA" will be the focus of Open Standards 2008, the fifth annual symposium hosted by OASIS, the international, not-for-profit consortium. The event, which will be held in Santa Clara, California, 28 April — 1 May, will examine the critical issues faced when architecting service-oriented applications and the benefits being reaped by real-world implementations that take advantage of Web services transactions. Presentations on the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), Service Component Architecture (SCA), Service Data Objects (SDO), WS-Transaction, and related standards will be featured.

In an Open Standards 2008 keynote address, Peter Carbone, Vice President, SOA, Office of the CTO at Nortel, will share insights on the new realities presented by communications-enabled applications and the opportunities they create for standards development, software vendors, and service providers. According to Carbone, "Communications-enabled applications are requiring current SOA frameworks to extend capabilities. They’re testing accepted definitions of scale, scope, performance, and even partnership models."

Doug Shoupp, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP, will address the concept of "services thinking" in a second keynote. "To unlock the enormous potential of SOA, you need to raise the discussion from the IT shop to the executive suite and focus on longterm business agility and execution within organizations," Shoupp said.

SAP AG, Premiere Sponsor of Open Standards 2008, will moderate the closing panel, "SOA within the Vertical Industries." Representatives from OpenTravel, TM Forum, and the U.S. Veterans Health Administration will participate in this panel.

"I’m looking forward to leading a lively discussion with representatives from vertical industry consortia on how the application of SOA concepts and standards varies across different industry sectors, and what we can expect for the future," said Claus von Riegen, director, Technology Standards and Open Source at SAP AG.

The OASIS Open CSA Member Section will host a table-top exhibition showcasing SCA and SDO supporters, BEA, IBM, Primeton, Rogue Wave, SAP, Software AG, and Sun Microsystems. Executives from these companies will participate in a press briefing on the current state of SCA on Tuesday, 29 April, at noon.

Support for Open Standards 2008

BEA Systems "The OASIS Composability within SOA Symposium will be an excellent opportunity to hear from thought leaders in the area of SOA and composite applications," said Edward Cobb, Vice President, Emerging Technology & Standards, BEA Systems. "BEA is pleased to be a sponsor of this important event."

Rogue Wave "As companies move towards deploying SOA, there will be a growing demand for developers to find a way to leverage the agility and flexibility that the architecture offers. Since there is a software legacy issue in utilizing SOA, developers will be faced with either the ‘rip and replace’ option or a significant code rewrite," said Patrick Leonard, VP, Engineering and Product Strategy at Rogue Wave. "We believe development teams should be able to modernize their existing applications without ever leaving the installed code base, and can solve this problem with our Hydra Product Suite."

SAP "Enterprise SOA helps customers and partners transform their IT environments into more responsive, efficient business networks that enable process innovation and new business models — creating value beyond the four walls of the enterprise," said Michael Bechauf, vice president, Industry Standards, SAP. "As a sponsor of the OASIS Open Standards 2008 Symposium, we’re looking forward to an event that brings developers, users and technology suppliers together to share experiences and innovative ideas for successfully utilizing SOA in their business."

Software AG "As a leader in SOA, Software AG is committed to supporting open standards that promote interoperability in heterogeneous IT environments," said Franco Castaldini, Director of SOA Product Marketing. "Our commitment to open standards is exemplified by the market’s leading community for SOA interoperability, the CentraSite Community, where our network of more than 50 partners ensures that open standards like UDDI, WS-I, BPEL, and JAXR are used to promote interoperability."

Sun Microsystems "The OASIS symposium is a great forum to discuss the current state of composability standards and implementations, including best practices and potential obstacles," said Carl Cargill, Director of Corporate Standards, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "As a foundational member, Sun has been involved since the beginning in the development of SOA standards, participating in basic Web services technical committees. More recently, Sun has participated in the Open CSA Member Section and technical committees affiliated with it, including SCA-J TC, the SCA-Policy TC, and the SCA-Assembly TC, helping technology architects find ways to make composite applications work and implement successful SOA projects."

For more information: http://events.oasis-open.org/home/symposium/2008

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 Director of Communications carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209

Boston and Wayland, MA, USA; 12 March 2008 — Progress on ongoing collaborative efforts was announced today by two international standards consortia, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) and OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards). The groups have fostered an active commitment to cooperation since signing a Memorandum of Agreement in 2006.

"OASIS Standards enable a broad set of capabilities, and OGC’s standards apply wherever ‘where’ and ‘when’ are included," explained Mark Reichardt, President and CEO of the OGC. "For the members of both organizations and for the broader global community of IT developers and users, it’s important that the two organizations work together to strengthen open standards-based interoperability."

"OGC brings value to both the front and back ends of OASIS work," noted James Bryce Clark, director of standards development at OASIS. "They actively participate in a wide range of OASIS technical committees, ensuring that the business requirements of the geospatial community are represented in the standards development process. Once OASIS Standards are approved, OGC champions their adoption by designing geospatial extensions and profiles."

The groups point to Web services as a key area of their cooperation. With the existing OGC Web Services (OWS) standards, most of the standards needed to publish, discover and use Web-resident geospatial data and services on the Web are in place. However, OWS must work in concert with other Web services standards. That’s why OGC members approved the ebRIM (electronic business Registry Information Model) OASIS Standard as the preferred cataloging meta-model foundation for future application profiles of the OpenGIS® Catalog Service Web (CS-W) Standard.

In the security space, the recently approved OGC GeoXACML standard represents a spatial extension of the XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language) OASIS Standard. GeoXACML was developed in close collaboration with the OASIS XACML Technical Committee.

OGC also plays an active role in the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee, which works to advance the fields of incident and emergency preparedness and response. This committee developed the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) OASIS Standards. OGC members helped define a GML application very similar to GeoRSS GML for use in CAP and EDXL, as well as in other specifications under development including the Extensible Address Language (xAL), and Hospital Availability Exchange (HAVE).

The OGC’s Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards reference CAP and other relevant OASIS alerting standards including the OASIS Web Services Notification (WS-N) and Asynchronous Service Access Protocol (ASAP) specifications. The OGC works with OASIS to harmonize these standards with the SWE specifications.

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, localization, 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

About the OGC: The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 345 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OpenGIS® Standards support interoperable solutions that “geo-enable” the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled. http://www.opengeospatial.org

For more information:

Sam Bacharach Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc tel: +1-703-352-3938 sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

Carol Geyer Director of Communications OASIS Tel: +1 978 667-5115 x209 carol.geyer@oasis-open.org

Boston, MA, USA; 14 February 2008 — OASIS, the international open standards consortium, has formed a new technical committee to extend the Web Services Business Processes Execution Language (WS-BPEL) to support human interactions. The new OASIS WS-BPEL Extension for People (BPEL4People) Technical Committee will expand the capabilities of WS-BPEL to support a broad range of human interaction patterns, allowing for additional modeling of business processes within the language.

WS-BPEL 2.0, which was approved as an OASIS Standard in 2007, introduced a model to support automated business processes based on Web services. The standard is now widely used for orchestrating machine-to-machine interactions.

"WS-BPEL was not designed for human workflow," noted Jeff Mischkinsky of Oracle, convenor of the OASIS BPEL4People Technical Committee. "Nevertheless, we realize that many business processes comprise a broad range of activities where people are directly involved. Whether performing tasks, reviewing actions, approving steps, or entering data, people are a key part of many workflow scenarios."

BPEL4People will define a new type of basic activity that will allow human tasks, including their properties and behavior, to be defined, as well as the operations used to manipulate those tasks. A BPEL4People coordination protocol will control autonomy and life cycle of service-enabled human tasks in an interoperable manner.

"BPEL4People demonstrates WS-BPEL’s promise of extensibility," said James Bryce Clark, directory of standards development at OASIS. "Being able to represent human interactions as well as automated service exchanges is a powerful evolutionary step. We expect that building on WS-BPEL, rather than developing an entirely new specification, will be most welcomed by the marketplace."

OASIS members will build on version 1.0 of the BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask specifications, which will be contributed to the Committee by Adobe, Active Endpoints, BEA, IBM, Oracle and SAP. Other contributions and changes to these input documents will be accepted for consideration and evaluated based on technical merit and conformance to the Committee’s charter.

BPEL4People will be offered for implementation on a Royalty-Free basis. The new technical committee will hold its first meeting by teleconference on 5 March 2008. Participation remains open to all companies, non-profit groups, government agencies, academic institutions, and individuals. Archives of the work will be accessible to both members and non-members, and OASIS will offer a mechanism for public comment.

Presentations on BPEL and other SOA-related standards will be the focus of the upcoming OASIS event, ‘Open Standards 2008: Composability within SOA’, which will be held 28 April — 1 May in Santa Clara, California.

OASIS also recently introduced BPEL XML.org, an online community gathering place and information resource for the standard.

Support for BPEL4People

Active Endpoints "Active Endpoints looks forward to participating in the OASIS BPEL4People Technical Committee and contributing to the extension of BPEL to include human tasks. As one of the authors of BPEL4People, we very strongly believe that no visual orchestration system is complete without the ability to flexibly integrate people as part of the overall application. By formalizing the BPEL4People specifications, OASIS is ensuring that BPEL itself will continue to be the most effective way to drive services-based application adoption," said Chris Keller, founder and vice president of engineering, Active Endpoints, Inc.

Adobe "Adobe is dedicated to creating rich and immersive online and offline experiences. WS-BPEL Extensions will considerably close the gap between human behavior and structural business processes and establish standards for effective process management. Human Task Enablement extends the ability for organizations to use open-source Flex to build standards-based applications that are intuitive and interactive. Adobe looks forward to participating within the newly formed OASIS Technical Committee and standardizing the specifications," said Charlton Barreto, senior software architect, Adobe.

BEA Systems "BEA is pleased that an OASIS technical committee is being formed to standardize extensions to WS-BPEL 2.0 which are designed to support human interaction within business processes. This technology can help deliver significant value to customers and the industry," said Ed Cobb, vice president of emerging technology and standards at BEA Systems.

IBM "We’re very pleased to join with our co-authors on BPEL4People, Active Endpoints, Adobe, BEA, Oracle, and SAP, in forming the OASIS BPEL4People Technical Committee. This is an important milestone in providing a common way for vendors to represent the human steps in a business process based on BPEL. Our customers have told us that it is critical that their business process management applications be able to address the diverse activities that people perform, such as review and delegation, in a standardized way. The BPEL4People Technical Committee starts the industry on a clear path to an open, widely adopted industry standard for this important capability," said Karla Norsworthy, IBM.

Oracle "The BPEL4People specification addresses two critical industry needs: providing a standard workflow language for broad adoption, and enabling a single base standard (WS-BPEL) to orchestrate both people and systems. Having supported this architecture for several years in our Fusion Middleware, Oracle believes its standardization by the OASIS Technical Committee will accelerate the market adoption of workflow technology and BPM," said Don Deutsch, vice president, Standard Strategy and Architecture, Oracle.

Red Hat "Red Hat is happy to see the emergence of BPEL4People as an OASIS Technical Committee and intends to contribute actively in this endeavor," said Mark Little, Director of Standards.

SAP "SAP is pleased to see that OASIS is further enhancing the BPEL specification and encouraging broader adoption of this technology. Through BPEL4People, modeling of service-based and human interactions will be unified, thus driving further adoption of enterprise-class SOA for critical business applications," said Michael Bechauf, Vice President, Industry Standards at the Global Ecosystem and Partner Group, SAP.

Software AG "The BPEL4People and related WS-HumanTask specifications fill major holes in the area of human interaction that existed within the original WS-BPEL 2.0 specification. These extensions to WS-BPEL 2.0 target the unique needs of complex business process orchestration with embedded human interactions so that they can more fully support the ‘ad hoc’ process orchestrations that are critical to the continued evolution of BPEL-centric BPM. We are pleased to co-submit these specifications to OASIS and co-sponsor the formation of the BPEL4People TC. Software AG is committed to open standards as a means for ensuring interoperability across heterogeneous systems. This is fundamental to our position as the independent leader in business infrastructure software globally," said Dr. Peter Kürpick, President and Chief Product Officer of the webMethods Business Division and member of the Software AG Executive Board.

Sun Microsystems "Sun Microsystems is a long-time supporter of and contributor to WS-BPEL 2.0. Sun supports the standardization of BPEL4People as the next logical step in the growth of WS-BPEL, bringing work flow capabilities to BPEL’s web service orchestration facilities, and to our customers. And, as always, we are happy to support this work being done in the open environment offered by OASIS," said Carl Cargill, Sun’s Director of Corporate Standards.

Additional information: OASIS BPEL4People Technical Committee http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/bpel4people/ BPEL XML.org http://bpel.xml.org/ Cover Pages Technology Report http://xml.coverpages.org/bpel4people.html Open Standards 2008: Composability within SOA http://events.oasis-open.org/home/symposium/2008/

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 Director of Communications carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209 (office) +1.941.284.0403 (mobile)

Boston, MA, USA; 13 February 2008 — The OASIS international standards consortium today introduced a new XML.org online community web site dedicated to supporting the Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) and related specifications. The site, (http://bpel.xml.org), serves as the official information resource for the WS-BPEL OASIS Standard, which provides a method for formally describing business processes and business interaction protocols using Web services.

"BPEL has become an important standard for Service-Oriented Architectures," said Ed Cobb, VP, Emerging Technology & Standards at BEA. "OASIS has created this site as a way to enable users, developers, and vendors from around the world to share information and learn from one another."

All pages on BPEL XML.org are accessible by the public, and users are encouraged to contribute content. The site features a wiki knowledgebase of information on using and understanding BPEL. It also includes sections where readers can post related news, event information, listings for products and services, links to white papers, case studies, and other resources. Forums that support interactive discussions and blogs are also featured.

"Valuable information on BPEL is scattered throughout the Web on a multitude of web sites from vendors, publications, conferences, and other sources. BPEL XML.org aims to provide an easily navigable nexus point where people can go to quickly find the information they need," said Diane Jordan, Program Director for IBM Emerging Internet Software Standards. "It’s also a ‘watering hole’ where people working with BPEL can come together to support one another."

BPEL is the newest addition to the XML.org family of web sites devoted to supporting communities around open standards; other sites include include DITA, ebXML, IDtrust, OpenDocument, and UDDI.

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 Director of Communications carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209 (office) +1.941.284.0403 (mobile)

Boston, MA, USA; 11 February 2008 — OASIS, the international open standards consortium, today announced that its members have approved the XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) version 1.2 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. Developed through an open process by the OASIS XLIFF Technical Committee, the new standard defines a vocabulary for storing localizable data and carrying it from one step of the localization process to another.

"XLIFF enables interoperability between tools throughout the digital content localization lifecycle. It provides publishers with a standard data interchange container that can be understood by any localization provider," noted Tony Jewtushenko, who co-chairs the OASIS XLIFF Technical Committee with Bryan Schnabel.

"XLIFF is a powerful and concise format for content that needs to be translated," said Schnabel. "Until now, we’ve had to develop custom mechanisms for data providers and translators to accomplish localization. With XLIFF, we have an open standard that is efficient, predictable, and transferable for tool makers and localization service providers, as well as for content owners."

The new standard defines how to mark up and capture localizable data that can interoperate with different processes or phases without loss of information. Tool-neutral, XLIFF supports the entire localization process, including common software, document data formats and markup languages. It provides an extensibility mechanism to allow the development of tools compatible with an implementer’s data formats and workflow requirements. The extensibility mechanism supports controlled inclusion of information not expressly defined in the specification.

"OASIS members have succeeded in reducing the complexity of localizing software by providing a standard, XML-based, end-to-end resource container," explained James Bryce Clark, director of standards development at OASIS. "Software and documentation publishers can extract content into XLIFF and localize it—over and over again—using shrink-wrapped solutions, customized tools or even automated enterprise workflow systems. XLIFF’s built-in support for Computer Aided Translation technologies such as translation memory and machine translation add even greater process efficiency."

Successful use of XLIFF 1.2 was verified by Lionbridge, the Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA), the University of Limerick Localisation Research Centre (LRC), and SDL, in accordance with eligibility requirements for all OASIS Standards. XLIFF was developed under the Royalty-Free on RAND Terms Mode of the OASIS Intellectual Property Rights Policy, which generally requires committee participants to license their Essential Claims using royalty-free elements.

To encourage widespread adoption, the OASIS XLIFF Technical Committee continues its work defining implementation guides for some of the most commonly used resource formats (HTML, Java Resource Bundles, and Gettext PO Files). Participation in the Committee remains open to all government agencies, companies, non-profit groups, academic institutions, and individuals. Archives of the work are publicly accessible, and OASIS offers a mechanism for public comment.

Support for the XLIFF OASIS Standard

Comtech "The XLIFF standard is a vital part of the translation tool kit, supporting our efforts to move XML-based structured content seamlessly through the translation process," said JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD, president, Comtech Services and chair of the OASIS DITA Translation Subcommittee.

Lionbridge "As an early adopter and promoter of XLIFF, Lionbridge continues to strongly embrace XLIFF as an open standard for the localization industry. As usage increases, our customers appreciate the flexibility of the native XLIFF support provided within Logoport today. After many years of domination by proprietary formats, the XLIFF standard facilitates interoperability in a fragmented localization tools industry, providing customers and practitioners with the freedom to choose their language tools,” said Eric Blassin, vice president, Language Technology, Lionbridge.

SAP "One important factor for SAP’s success in the marketplace is our broad experience with globalization, internationalization, localization and translation of our solutions. We congratulate the working group for another important milestone," said Michael Bechauf, Vice President, Industry Standards at the Global Ecosystem and Partner Group, SAP.

Additional information: OASIS XLIFF Technical Committee http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xliff XLIFF FAQ http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xliff/faq.php Cover Pages Technology Report http://xml.coverpages.org/xliff.html

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 Director of Communications carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209 (office) +1.941.284.0403 (mobile)

Boston, MA, USA; 24 January 2008 — OASIS, the international open standards consortium, today announced that its members have approved the Election Markup Language (EML) version 5.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. Developed through an open process by the OASIS Election and Voter Services Technical Committee, EML supports information exchange through the complete election process, including candidate nomination, voter registration and authentication, ballot information, vote casting and confirmation, tabulation, auditing, and more.

"In the election industry today, there are many different election systems and a wide variety of components used for many different functions, so the need for easier integration of different system components has never been greater," said Dr. Ron Rivest, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). "EML is an example of the kind of consensus-based, publicly available common format that enables the exchange of electronic records between different components in election systems."

EML is flexible enough to be used for elections and referendums that are fully e-enabled as well as ones that are primarily paper-based. Designed to accommodate many languages, dialects, and vocabularies, the standard also supports various voting regimes. It can be used in both the private and public sectors.

"The beauty of EML is that it supports the election process without requiring any changes to traditional methods of conducting elections," said John Borras, chair of the OASIS Election and Voter Services Technical Committee. "EML lets election officials around the world build on existing infrastructure investments to evolve their systems as new technologies and voting practices emerge."

The value of EML is recognized by many public sector agencies. The Council of Europe has issued a recommendation that its 46 member states use open standards such as EML for e-election and e-referendum applications. All U.K. electoral modernisation pilots have used EML, as a means to evaluate the standard’s effectiveness in real elections; feedback from these pilots was incorporated into version 5.0. The U.S. State of California intends to use EML to provide election results in its upcoming presidential primary.

"By providing a uniform, secure, and verifiable way for voting systems to interact, EML safeguards voter confidence in the election process," said Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS. Gannon also serves on the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s Technical Guidelines Development Committee. "We applaud the government officials and vendors who collaborated on this mature, secure standard."

EML was developed under the Royalty-Free on Limited Terms Mode of the OASIS Intellectual Property Rights Policy. EDS, IBM, and OPT2VOTE all verified successful use of EML 5.0, in accordance with eligibility requirements for all OASIS Standards.

The OASIS Election and Voter Services Technical Committee continues work on developing profiles and implementation guidelines for use of EML 5.0. Participation in the Committee remains open to all government agencies, companies, non-profit groups, academic institutions, and individuals. Archives of the work are accessible to both members and non-members, and OASIS offers a mechanism for public comment.

Additional information: OASIS Election and Voter Services Technical Committee http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election

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 Director of Communications carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209 (office) +1.941.284.0403 (mobile)

Boston, MA, USA; 5 December 2007 — Interoperability in the public sector is the focus of a new effort at the OASIS open standards consortium. Representatives from local, national, and international agencies, as well as technology providers and systems integrators, have come together to form the OASIS eGovernment (eGov) Member Section. The group will assess interoperability frameworks of relevance to the public sector and promote more inclusive and citizen-centered eGovernment initiatives through the adoption and implementation of open standards.

"All those concerned with enabling more efficient use of new technologies to deliver better quality government services are encouraged to contribute to this effort," noted Carol Cosgrove-Sacks, OASIS Senior Advisor on International Standards Policy. Dr. Cosgrove-Sacks, widely known for her previous role as Director of Trade for the United Nations, will be working closely with the OASIS eGov Steering Committee, which includes government representatives from Belgium, Canada, and New Zealand, and enterprise executives working closely with public sector agencies in China, UK, USA, and the European Union.

OASIS eGov will address standards related to election and voter services, identity management, tax, information access, emergency management, public procurement, and long-term archiving. The Member Section will work with technical committees that are involved in these and other issues of particular concern to public administrations.

"We will build consensus on the public sector’s requirements for open standards and communicate those requirements to the groups that are engaged in developing the standards," said Bob Sunday of Canada’s Public Works and Government Services. Sunday, who holds a seat on the OASIS eGov Steering Committee, added, "Governments will be able to leverage investments they’ve already made in standards by exchanging information on best practices and use cases and by coordinating government-oriented interoperability demonstrations."

"OASIS eGov will serve as a focal point for discussions of governmental and public administration requirements for e-business standardization," said Peter F. Brown of Pensive, who serves on the OASIS eGov Steering Committee and the consortium’s Board of Directors. "Our work will encourage the re-use of data and standards in an open environment."

OASIS eGov members include the Austrian Center for Information Technologies (A-SIT), Belgian SPF Finances, Booz Allen Hamilton, Canadian Public Works and Government Services, Capgemini, EMC, New Zealand State Services Commission, Property Records Industry Association, the U.S. Department of Defense, and others.

"As government challenges globalize and become more diversified, so the need for standardisation becomes more acute. Having the eGov group established within OASIS represents an important step forward in helping governments to work together more effectively by sharing best practices and helping to drive the adoption of new technologies and approaches for interacting with and enabling their citizens," said Steve Jones, Head of SOA, Global Outsourcing, Capgemini.

Additional information: OASIS eGov Member Section http://www.oasis-egov.org/

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 Director of Communications carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209 (office) +1.941.284.0403 (mobile)

Boston, MA, USA; 15 November 2007 — OASIS, the international open standards consortium, has formed a new technical committee to advance the Service Data Objects (SDO) specification, which is designed to simplify the way in which Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications handle data. Using SDO, application programmers can uniformly access and manipulate data from heterogeneous data sources, including relational databases, XML data sources, Web services, and enterprise information systems.

"Most of the data programming technologies in use today are specific to a single type of data source, but in real-world applications, data frequently comes from a variety of places. As a result, application developers are burdened by the need to learn a plethora of programming models and data access APIs," noted Shawn Moe of IBM, convenor of the OASIS SDO Technical Committee. "By offering a common facility for representing collections of data–regardless of data source type–SDO gives application developers a more simple, unified programming model and enables tools to work across heterogeneous data sources consistently."

"Each type of data source (databases, documents, web services, and enterprise application systems) exposes a unique set of APIs, protocols, and formats, increasing the complexity of an application," explained Anne Thomas Manes, Vice President and Research Director for Burton Group. "A unified data programming model allows developers to focus on business logic rather than technical details."

The OASIS SDO Technical Committee will be affiliated with the OASIS Open Composite Services Architecture (Open CSA) Member Section, where the Service Component Architecture (SCA) family of specifications are also being developed. Together, SCA and SDO define a language-neutral programming model that lets developers of enterprise software fully exploit the benefits of SOA.

"SDO provides a neutral access path to enterprise data, which is the core of the customer solution," said Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS. "Many of our members are building exciting tools, data access services and frameworks which will further integrate SDO with existing and future data access technologies."

Participation in the OASIS SDO TC remains open to all companies, non-profit groups, government agencies, academic institutions, and individuals. Archives of the work will be accessible to both members and non-members, and OASIS will offer a mechanism for public comment. SDO will be offered for implementation on a Royalty-Free basis.

Presentations on SDO, SCA, and other SOA-related standards will be the focus of the upcoming OASIS event, ‘Open Standards 2008: Composability within SOA’, which will be held 28 April — 1 May in Santa Clara, California. The deadline for program submissions is 17 December.

Support for SDO

BEA Systems "SDO is very important to BEA. It is a standard that can help enable a service-oriented approach to data integration, which represents a critical aspect of any comprehensive SOA platform deployment," said Ed Cobb, Vice President of Emerging Technology and Standards at BEA Systems.

IBM "IBM is pleased to see the widespread industry support for the formation of the SDO Technical Committee. This is consistent with the goal of providing customers with a truly open, standards based model for SOA solutions. SDO lets applications access a variety of data sources in a common way, allowing programmers to focus on business processes rather than different data formats. Use of SDO and SCA will allow customers to develop dynamic, adaptable SOA solutions more quickly," said Karla Norsworthy, IBM Vice President of Software Standards.

Progress Software "As a longtime OASIS member organization, Progress Software is proud to extend its support and technical expertise to the OASIS SDO Technical Committee as inaugural members. As an organization, we are committed to helping the software development community simplify data programming through the creation and widespread use of industry standards. We look forward to playing a key role in helping to define and advance the SDO architecture specifications and API," said John Goodson, vice president of product operations for the DataDirect Technologies division of Progress Software.

SAP "Simplification of data programming to be independent of programming languages and data sources is a fundamental requirement as companies make the shift to an enterprise services oriented architecture. SDO is making great strides in the efforts to make this reality, and as a founding member company in the development of the SDO specifications, SAP is pleased to see the transition of this effort to OASIS for further refinement and broader adoption of this technology," said Sanjay Patil, Standards Architect, SAP AG.

Additional information: OASIS SDO Technical Committee http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/sdo OASIS Open CSA Member Section http://www.oasis-opencsa.org/ Open Standards 2008: Composability within SOA http://events.oasis-open.org/home/symposium/2008/ SCA Webinar Series: 10-13 Dec 2007 http://www.oasis-open.org/events/webinars/sca-2007.php

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 Director of Communications carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209 (office) +1.941.284.0403 (mobile)

Boston, MA, USA; 16 October 2007 — OASIS, the international open standards consortium, today announced that its members have approved ebXML Messaging Services (ebMS) version 3.0: Part 1, Core Features as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. ebMS 3.0 defines a Web services-based method for the reliable, secure exchange of business information. It is the latest addition to the ebXML family of specifications that was launched as a global initiative by OASIS and the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) and has been adopted worldwide.

“This specification is the first major revision of ebMS since version 2.0 was approved as an OASIS Standard in April 2002 — and subsequently as an ISO Standard in March 2004,” said Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS. “It ensures ebXML’s continuing relevancy and achieves compatibility with Web services specifications developed after ebMS 2.0, including SOAP 1.2 , as well as the WS-Security, WS-Reliability, and WS-ReliableMessaging OASIS Standards.”

“It has become critical for all partners — in particular small and medium size enterprises— of a supply chain to be able to handle differences in message flow capacity, intermittent connectivity, lack of static IP addresses, and firewall restrictions. ebMS 3.0 was designed to address all these requirements,” explained Ian Jones of British Telecommunications plc, chair of the OASIS ebMS Technical Committee. “We’ve succeeded in extending the existing enveloping technique that permits messages to contain payloads of any format type – not just XML, to a more flexible Web service framework. This versatility ensures legacy electronic business systems that use traditional syntaxes, such as EDI, ASC X12, or HL7, can leverage the advantages of the ebMS infrastructure along with systems based on emerging technologies.”

ebMS is designed to be used either with or without any of the other ebXML standards, including ebXML Business Process Specification Schema (BPSS) 2.0.4 and a forthcoming version of ebXML Collaboration Protocol Profile and Agreement (CPP/A). By design, ebMS 3.0 also fully supports composition with other SOAP-based Web services specifications. ebMS was developed under the Royalty-Free on Limited Terms Mode of the OASIS Intellectual Property Rights Policy. Axway, Fujitsu Computer Systems, and NEC all verified successful use of ebMS 3.0, in accordance with eligibility requirements for all OASIS Standards.

The OASIS ebMS Technical Committee continues work on Part 2 of ebMS 3.0 that will provide functional extensions to the ebMS 3.0 Core. Participation in the Technical Committee remains open to all companies, non-profit groups, governments, academic institutions, and individuals. Archives of the work are accessible to both members and non-members, and OASIS offers a mechanism for public comment. OASIS hosts an XML.org Focus Area for ebXML, http://ebxml.xml.org, which serves as the official community gathering place and information resource for the standards.

Support for ebMS

Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) “AIAG supports ebMS 3.0 because it enables trading partners to pull for incoming messages, which is very beneficial for smaller companies that do not have static Internet IP addresses or do not want to keep their systems turned on all the time. The automotive industry has invested in ebXML and in Web services capabilities; ebMS 3.0 should facilitate interoperable data exchange using both transport mechanisms,” said Pat Snack, General Motors Executive Loan, AIAG.

Axway “Many global communities use ebXML to reliably transport electronic business messages over the Internet. The ebXML version 3.0 standards process has mainly focused on improving the messaging standard by adding new features found in recent WS-* standards and allowing smaller customers to engage in ebXML business-quality messaging without needing a 24-by-7 Web server. We feel these enhancements will increase its adoption and are pleased to have participated in the endeavor,” said Dave Bennett, CTO at Axway.

Fujitsu “This new version of ebMS will address a broader array of users including SMEs with limited connectivity and little IT management resources. The adoption of Web services standards for security and reliability will facilitate implementations over existing platforms. We believe ebMS 3.0 will become an effective and versatile B2B complement to enterprise systems and SOA deployments,” said Yasushi Ishida, Exective Architect of Software Unit, Fujitsu Limited.

Health Level Seven (HL7) “We have completed committee level balloting on a new release of the HL7 ebXML Transport Specification (normative track) which is based on ebMS 3.0 and expect to proceed to membership ballot in Jan 2008. ebMS 3.0 provides an excellent platform for all forms of health information content exchange including documents, SOA, and messages with the diversity of stakeholders in the health care community,” said Paul Knapp of Continovation Services Inc., HL7 Implementable Technology Specifications SIG Co-Chair.

Additional information: OASIS ebMS Technical Committee http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-msg ebXML XML.org http://ebxml.xml.org

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 Director of Communications carol.geyer@oasis-open.org +1.978.667.5115 x209 (office) +1.941.284.0403 (mobile)

London, 10 October 2007 — Demand from the private sector and the community for simpler access to government services is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the need for better sharing of information and services in the public sector, according to international open standards consortium, OASIS.

"Within the bounds of a single nation, the need for transformational government has never been greater, but the need for real-time sharing of information is also becoming increasingly apparent across national boundaries. Much of the technology infrastructure that is being put in place to enable this interoperability is invariably based on Web services and Service Oriented Architecture. However, to do this in a comprehensive, meaningful, and secure manner requires the adoption of relevant standards," said Patrick Gannon, President and CEO of OASIS.

"The IT standards world is already complex and will become more so as the pressure for interoperability drives the move to replace proprietary interfaces with standards," explained Rob Hailstone, Software Infrastructure Practice Director at Butler Group. "Every organisation will need to decide which standards it should deploy in different business scenarios. For public sector organisations the need to understand the issues and create a strategy for the use of standards will become increasingly high profile, as governments will be required to deliver better coordinated services both within and between national boundaries."

It is important for decision-makers in public sector IT organisations to understand the ‘big picture’ of the standards movement and to discover how standards are being adopted by different governments and different government agencies. To this end, OASIS is presenting two days of information on the diversity, readiness, and adoption of relevant standards.

The event, ‘Enabling Transformational Government through Web Services and SOA,’ will take place on 29-30 October 2007 at CA’s Ditton Manor headquarters in Datchet, near London, UK. It will be an international conference featuring speakers from Asia, Central Europe, North America, and Western Europe. Keynotes for the event will be presented by Jagdip Grewal, NHS Connecting for Health; John Wailing, UK Home Office; and David Keene, SAP UK.

The event will discuss the role of standards in four broad topic areas — business and organisational change, applications and processes, collaboration, and quality of service. Within each of these, a broad cross-section of opinions and experiences will be described. In addition to more technology-focused sessions, delegates will learn how small businesses are being encouraged to adopt Web services in Japan, how Europol and Eurojust ensure collaboration between law enforcement services within Europe, how Estonia has created a national communication infrastructure, and how the EU orchestrates domestic Web services to support cross-border eGovernment life-events.

The Forum is supported by the Butler Group and sponsored by BEA Systems, EDS, IBM, Primeton, SAP, and Sun Microsystems. Other supporters include the Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Standards Board, CEN/ISSS, and XML UK.

For more information:
http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2007

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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