OASIS GLOSSARY OF TERMS

Glossary of Terms Related to OASIS Technical Work

ACORD
Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development is a global, nonprofit insurance association.

ADpr
Active Digital Profile specification, submitted to the OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee for advancement as part of PSML.

ADVL
Application Vulnerability Description Language, an XML definition for exchange of information relating to security vulnerabilities of applications exposed to networks.

ANSI
American National Standards Institute.

ARTS
The Association for Retail Technology Standards is a division of the National Retail Federation.

ASAP
Asynchronous Service Access Protocol, a simple extension of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) that enables generic asynchronous webservices or long-running webservices.

ASC X12
The Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12, accredited by the American National Standards Institute and comprised of cross-industry representation, develops robust e-business exchange specifications and electronic data interchange standards.

AuthXML
Security specification submitted to the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee for advancement as part of SAML.

BCM
Business-Centric Methodology, a process used to acquire agile and interoperable e-business information systems.

BPEL4WS
Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) specification.

BTP
Business Transactions Protocol, an XML-based protocol for managing complex B2B transactions over the Internet.

CALS
Continuous Acquisition and Life-Cycle Support, a US Department of Defense initiative to improve weapon system acquisition and life-cycle support processes through accelerated creation and application of digital product data and technical information.

CAM
Content Assembly Mechanism, an XML mechanism to bring together business process context and the localized implementation business rules.

CAP
Common Alerting Protocol enables the exchange of emergency alert and public warning information over data networks and computer-controlled warning systems.

CBEFF
Common Biometric Exchange File Format.

CGM
Computer Graphics Metafile.

CEN/ISSS
European Committee for Standardization--Information Society Standardization System.

CIQ
Customer Information Quality, a family of XML specifications for customer profile/information management.

CIM
Distributed Management Task Force's Common Information Model.

CRML
Customer Relationship Markup Language, an XML vocabulary specification that defines customer relationships, submitted by MSI Business Solutions to the OASIS CIQ Technical Committee.

DITA
Darwin Information Typing Architecture, a document creation and management specification that builds content reuse into the authoring process.

DMTF
Distributed Management Task Force.

DocBook
XML/SGML vocabulary particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software.

DSML
Directory Services Markup Language, an XML specification for marking up directory services information.

DSS
Digital Signature Services, a techniques to support the processing of digital signatures.

DTD
Document Type Definition, the building blocks of an XML document.

EA-ECA
East Asia Electronic Commerce Association.

ebSOA
Electronic Business Service Oriented Architecture.

ebXML
Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language, sponsored by UN/CEFACT and OASIS, a modular suite of specifications that enable enterprises of any size and in any geographical location to conduct business over the Internet.

ebXML BP
ebXML Business Process, royalty-free technology compatible with an underlying generic metamodel for business processes, activities, and collaboration.

ebXML BPSS
ebXML Business Process Specification Schema.

ebXML CPA
ebXML Collaboration Protocol Agreements.

ebXML CPP
ebXML Collaboration Protocol Profiles.

ebXML CPPA
ebXML Collaboration Protocol Profile and Agreement specifications that define CPPs and CPAs.

ebXML IIC
OASIS ebXML Implementation, Interoperability, and Conformance Technical Committee working to facilitate the creation of interoperable ebXML infrastructures and applications.

ebXML MSG
ebXML Messaging Services Specification, which provides a secure method for exchanging electronic business transactions using the Internet.

ebXML RegRep
ebXML Registry Repository Services Specifications, which define interoperable registries and repositories with an interface that enables submission, query and retrieval on the contents of the registry and repository.

ebXML RIM
ebXML Registry Information Model, which provides information on the types of metadata stored in an ebXML Registry as well as the relationships among the various metadata classes.

ebXML RS
ebXML Registry Services Specification, which defines the interface to ebXML Registry Services and identifies message definitions and XML schema.

ebXML TRP
ebXML Transport, Routing and Packaging Specification, see ebXML Messaging.

e.centre
Association for Standards and Practices in Electronic Trade.

ECOM
Electronic Commerce Promotion Council of Japan.

EIDX
The Electronics Industry Data Exchange Association is a section of the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) that represents the majority of companies in the electronics industry.

EML
Election Markup Language, a specification for exchanging election and voter services information using XML.

EPS
Electronic Procurement Standardization, coordinated development of global e-procurement standards and processes.

FEMA
Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Fragment Interchange
An OASIS (SGML Open) resolution that defines a method of exchanging portions of an SGML document.

FWSI
Framework for Web Services Implementation, an implementation of robust Web Services by defining a practical and extensible methodology.

GeoLang
Geography and Languages, a set of topic maps published subjects defining language, country, and region.

HL7
Health Level Seven.

HR-XML
Human Resources Extensible Markup Language, XML specifications to enable e-business and the automation of human resources-related data exchanges.

HumanML
Human Markup Language, a specification designed to represent human characteristics through XML.

IDA
Singapore Government's Infocomm Development Authority.

IEC
International Electrotechnical Commission.

IEC
International Electrotechnical Commission; member of MoU on E-Business that also includes OASIS, ISO, ITU and UN/ECE.

IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

IPR
Intellectual Property Rights.

ISO
International Organization for Standardization; member of MoU on E-Business that also includes OASIS, IEC, ITU, and UN/ECE.

ITML
Information Technology Markup Language, submitted to the OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee for advancement as part of PSML.

ITU
International Telecommunication Union; member of MoU on E-Business that also includes OASIS, IEC, ISO and UN/ECE.

LI-XML
LegalXML Lawful Intercept XML, end-to-end lawful interception process framework.

MoU on E-Business
Memorandum of Understanding between international standards-setting bodies to coordinate the development of global standards for electronic business; members include IEC, ISO, ITU, UN/ECE and OASIS.

NASPO
US National Association of State Procurement Officials.

NIGP
US National Institute for Governmental Purchasing.

oBIX
Open Building Information Xchange, Web services implementation for the building management and controls industry.

OMI
Open Model Interface.

OWASP
The Open Web Application Security Project, an Open Source community group dedicated to helping government and industry understand and improve the security of Web applications and services.

PKI
Public Key Infrastructure, the deployment of digital certificates to meet business and security requirements.

PLCS
Product Life Cycle Support, structured data exchange and sharing to support complex engineered assets throughout their total life cycle.

PSLX
Planning and Scheduling Language for XML specifications.

RELAX
Regular Language description for XML, a language for validating XML documents that was merged with TREX to create RELAX NG.

RELAX NG
Regular Language Expression, a lightweight XML language validation specification based on TREX and RELAX

S2ML
Security specification submitted to the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee for advancement as part of SAML.

SAML
Security Assertion Markup Language, an XML-based security specification for exchanging authentication and authorization information.

SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol.

SPML
Service Provisioning Markup Language, an XML-based framework specification for exchanging user, resource, and service provisioning information.

TAB
Technical Advisory Board.

Table Models

TREX
Tree Regular Expressions for XML, a language for validating XML documents that was merged with RELAX to create RELAX NG.

UBL
Universal Business Language, a standard library of XML business documents.

UDDI
Universal Description and Discover Integration, technical foundation for publication and discovery of Web services implementations both within and between enterprises.

UN/CEFACT
United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business, cosponsors with OASIS of ebXML.

UN/ECE
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe; member of MoU on E-Business that also includes OASIS, IEC, ISO and ITU.

URI
Uniform Resource Identifier.

URN
Uniform Resource namespace.

VulnXML
Vulnerability Description Language, uniform ways for security researchers to describe and classify specific new vulnerabilities when they are initially discovered.

W3C
World Wide Web Consortium.

WAS
Web Application Security, a classification scheme for web security vulnerabilities that can be used by both assessment and protection tools.

WebCGM
An application of the ISO-standard Computer Graphics Metafile for electronic documents.

WSBPEL
Web Services Business Process Execution Language, an XML based language used to specify the common concepts for a business process.

WS-CAF
Web Services Composite Application Framework, a generic and open framework for applications that contain multiple services used in combination.

WSCM
Web Services Component Model for Interactive Applications, see WSIA.

WSDL
Web Services Description Language.

WSDM
Web Services Distributed Management uses web services architecture and technology to manage distributed resources.

WSIA
Web Services Interactive Applications.

WSIA
Web Services for Interactive Applications, a coordinated set of XML vocabularies and Web services interfaces that allow companies to deliver Web applications to end users through a variety of channels.

WSN
Web Services Notification, a pattern-based approach to allow one Web service to disseminate information to a set of other Web services.

WS-RM
Web Services Reliable Messaging, message delivery to software applications with a chosen level of Quality of Service (QoS).

WSRF
Web Services Resource Framework is a set of royalty-free, interoperable, and modular specifications that will allow the relationship between a Web service and its state to be modeled in an explicit, standard fashion.

WSRP
Web Services Standard for Remote Portals, an XML and Web services specification that will allow for the "plug-n-play" of visual, user-facing Web services with portals or other intermediary Web applications.

WSS
Web Services Security offers a trusted means for applying security to Web services by providing the necessary technical foundation for higher-level services.

WSUI
Web Services User Interface, a specification for defining standard user interfaces for Web services, submitted to the OASIS WSIA Technical Committee.

WSXL
Web Services Experience Language, a Web services-centric component model, submitted by IBM to the OASIS WSIA Technical Committee for advancement as WSIA.

XACML
eXtensible Access Control Markup Language, an XML specification for expressing policies for information access over the Internet.

xAL
Extensible Address Language specification.

XBRL
XBRL is an international consortium comprising accounting standards bodies, accounting firms, technology companies, financial information providers, corporations, and government regulatory bodies.

XCBF
XML Common Biometric Format, an XML schema for describing information that verifies identity based on human characteristics such as DNA, fingerprints, iris scans, and hand geometry.

xCBL
XML component and business document library submitted to the OASIS UBL Technical Committee by Commerce One.

xCIL
Extensible Customer Information Language specification.

xCRL
Extensible Customer Relationships Language.

XDI
XRI Data Interchange.

XLIFF
XML Localization Interchange File Format, an XML specification for multi-lingual data exchange.

xNAL
Extensible Name and Address Language specification.

xNL
Extensible Name Language specification.

XMLvoc
Vocabulary for XML Standards and Technologies, a set of topic maps published subjects defining the vocabulary of interchangeable ontologies for the XML domain.

XNS
eXtensible Name Service protocol managed by the XNS Public Trust Organization (XNSORG).

XPath test
XML Path Language test, an OASIS conformance suite for XSLT/XPath processors.

XRI
Extensible Resource Identifier, a defining scheme used for identification of resources (including people and organizations) and the sharing of data across domains, enterprises, and applications. XRI TC will define a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme and a corresponding Uniform Resource (URN) namespace.

XRPM
Extensible Resource Provisioning Management specification, submitted to the OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee for advancement as part of PSML.

XSLT test
XML Stylesheet Language Transformation test, an OASIS conformance suite for XSLT/XPath processors.

 

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