Welcome to OASIS News, a bi-weekly update of announcements, accomplishments, and activities for the international open standards consortium.

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In this issue:

* OASIS Board and TAB elect officers  
* Web Services Discovery and Devices Profile TC forms
* Members propose Identity Metasystem Interoperability TC
* Symmetric Key Services Markup Language public review begins
* Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) public review begins
* Early-bird discount ends soon for Security Forum near London
* Mary McRae receives promotion; Jamie Clark takes on new duties
* Important dates

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OASIS Board and TAB elect officers  

Newly elected OASIS Board directors and TAB members were officially seated in meetings last week. The OASIS Board chose Eduardo Gutentag of Sun Microsystems to continue as Chair, Jeff Mischkinsky of Oracle as Vice Chair, Frederick Hirsch of Nokia as Secretary, and Jim Hughes of Microsoft as Treasurer. The TAB selected Toby Considine of the University of North Carolina and William Cox as Co-Chairs.

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Web Services Discovery and Devices Profile (WS-DD) TC forms

All interested parties are invited to participate in the new OASIS WS-DD Technical Committee. This group will define lightweight dynamic protocols to enable secure Web service messaging, discovery, description, and eventing on resource-constrained endpoints. The WS-DD TC will operate under the Royalty Free on RAND Mode of the OASIS IPR Policy. TC proposers include representatives of CA, Microsoft, Nortel, Novell, Progress Software, Red Hat, Ricoh, Software AG, and others. Colleen Evans of Microsoft is the convener; a TC chair or two co-chairs will be elected at the first meeting, which will be held in Redmond, WA, USA, 16-18 Sept.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00012.html

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Members propose Identity Metasystem Interoperability TC

All interested parties are asked to review and comment on a draft charter to establish the OASIS Identity Metasystem Interoperability (IMI) Technical Committee. IMI will work to increase the quality and number of interoperable implementations of Information Cards and associated identity system components. IMI TC proposers include representatives of IBM, Microsoft, Nortel, US Department of Defense, and others; Abbie Barbir of Nortel serves as convener. The comment period for this draft charter closes 7 Aug.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00010.html

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Symmetric Key Services Markup Language (SKSML) public review begins

Developed by the OASIS Enterprise Key Management Infrastructure (EKMI) TC, SKSML defines an XML-based messaging protocol by which applications may receive secure symmetric key-management services from centralized servers over networks. This public review ends 23 Sept.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00011.html

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Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) public review begins

The OASIS WS-SX TC has recently submitted WS-Trust 1.4, WS-SecureConversation 1.4, and WS-SecurityPolicy 1.3 for public review. This specification package defines WS-Security extensions and policies to enable the trusted exchange of multiple SOAP messages. The public review closes 23 Sept.

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00009.html

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Early-bird discount ends soon for Security Forum near London

Register for the annual OASIS Forum on "Security Challenges for the Information Society" by 29 Aug and save 200 USD. The event will be held 30 Sept through 3 Oct at Ditton Manor near London. Sponsors include Alcatel-Lucent, Axiomatics, CA, IBM, Nortel, Oracle, Primeton, and Sun Microsystems. Space is limited, and additional discounts for OASIS members and groups are available.

http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008/registration

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Mary McRae receives promotion; Jamie Clark takes on new duties

Mary McRae has been promoted to Director of TC Administration at OASIS. She'll continue to provide front-line support for OASIS TCs and the standards they produce. Mary remains the primary resource for TC chairs, guiding them through the OASIS technical process and helping them reach the goals and objectives of their charters. Mary also serves on the OASIS Technical Advisory Board.

Jamie Clark, the OASIS Director of Standards Development, will take on responsibility for expanding standards participation into more industries, regions, and topical areas. He will continue to supervise liaison activities and incubate new standards projects.

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Important dates:

6 Aug
SOA-EERP TC holds first meeting (teleconference)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200806/msg00017.html

7 Aug
Identity Metasystem Interoperability draft charter review ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00010.html

8 Aug
XSPA TC holds first meeting (teleconference)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00002.html

12 Aug
Public review for three WS-TX specs ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200806/msg00010.html

Public review for Subject Profiles for SAML 1.1 Assertions ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200806/msg00009.html

21 Aug
UIML 4.0 public review ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200806/msg00013.html

29 Aug
Early-bird discount for OASIS Security Forum ends
http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008/registration

ebMS Transport Binding for DSS v1.0 public review ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200805/msg00013.html

14 Sept
WS-Federation 1.2 public review ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00008.html

16-18 Sept
Web Services Discovery and Devices Profile TC holds first meeting
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00012.html

23 Sept
Symmetric Key Services Markup Language (SKSML) public review ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00011.html

Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) public review ends
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200807/msg00009.html

30 Sept
OASIS Telecom hosts 'Adopting SOA in Telecommunications' Workshop
http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008/workshop

1-3 Oct
OASIS IDtrust hosts 'Security Challenges for the Info Society' Forum
http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008

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