1. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 OASIS Technical Work Status February 2003 Karl Best OASIS Vice President

2. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 This presentation is kept current and available at http://www.oasis- open.org/presentations/tc_status. ppt Current list and summaries of TCs at http://www.oasis- open.org/committees/committees.sh tml

3. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Summary OASIS is a member-lead consortium dedicated to building interoperability specifications Open, democratic, neutral member-driven technical process Successful in establishing relationships with other orgs; promoting interoperability Successful in converging competing efforts, completing work begun elsewhere

4. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Overview OASIS is a member-led consortium dedicated to building systems interoperability specifications – Member-elected Board of Directors and Technical Advisory Board – Member-driven standards process We focus on industry applications of structured information standards such as XML Members of OASIS are providers, users and specialists of standards-based technologies and include organizations, individuals and industry groups. – 300+ organizational members, ~275 individual members International, not-for-profit, open, independent Successful through industry-wide collaboration

5. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 OASIS technical agenda The OASIS technical agenda is set by our members; bottom-up approach Technical committees formed by the proposal of our members; TC sets its own schedule and deliverables Member-elected Board of Directors and Technical Advisory Board

6. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 OASIS standards process Specifications are created under an open, democratic, vendor-neutral process – Any interested parties may either participate or comment – No one organization can dictate the specification – Ensures that specifications meet everyone’s needs, not just largest players’ All discussion open to public inspection and comment Bi-level approval process – TC approves Committee Specification – OASIS members approve OASIS Standard Resulting work is guaranteed to be representative of the industry as a whole, not just any one vendor’s view

7. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 OASIS relationships Promote cooperation and liaisons between OASIS TCs – No top-down agenda for which TCs will be created; overlap possible, so emphasis on coordination Joint Committees provide forum for communication between TCs

8. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 OASIS relationships (cont.) Attempt to cooperate and liaise with other standards organizations as much as possible – Prevent duplication, promote interoperability – Gain sanction/authority for OASIS work Working relationships with – W3C, OMG, IDEAlliance, OAG, HL7, CommerceNet, LISA, etc.

9. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 OASIS relationships (cont.) Formal relationships with – ISO/IEC/ITU/UN-ECE Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for E-Business – ISO TC154, e-business standards (Category A Liaison) – ISO/IEC JTC SC34, markup languages (Category A Liaison) – ISO/IEC JTC SC6, security (Category A Liaison) – ITU-T A.4 and A.5 Recognition

10. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 What OASIS Offers Its Members Opportunity to pursue technical work in a neutral environment – Buy-in and support from developers and implementers Opportunity to set the technical agenda of a recognized industry standards organization – OASIS member-driven technical process

11. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 What OASIS Offers Industry Time to Market: bring your work here and avoid wasting time and effort setting up – Committee process – Infrastructure (web site, mail lists) – IPR policy and copyright protection – Program management – Marketing/Promotion – Anti-trust Use your technical expertise on technical work, not on setting up administrative overhead

12. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 What OASIS Offers Industry (cont.) Opportunity for convergence – Various OASIS TCs are the result of two or more industry groups or existing specs coming together under the neutral OASIS process

13. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Progression/Approval of OASIS technical work 1.Any three or more OASIS members propose creation of a technical committee (TC) 2.Existing technical work submitted to TC; or TC starts work at the beginning. TC conducts and completes technical work; open and publicly viewable 3.TC votes to approve work as an OASIS Committee Specification 4.TC conducts public review, and three or more OASIS members implement the specification 5.TC votes to submit the Committee Specification to OASIS membership for consideration 6.OASIS membership reviews, approves the Committee Specification as an OASIS Standard

14. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Progression of Specs to Standards Committee Specs approved as OASIS Standards – DocBook v4 (Jan 2001) – ebXML RIM (April 2002) – ebXML RS (April 2002) – DSML (April 2002) – ebXML Messaging (July 2002) – SAML (Nov 2002) – ebXML CPPA (Nov 2002) – XACML (Feb 2003) ~20 Committee Specs completed; some to be submitted to OASIS members for approval

15. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Current TC status Currently 50+ OASIS Technical Committees, two Joint Committees, and three Member Sections Growing by ~2 new TCs a month since mid 2001 Additional proposals in the works...

16. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Current Technical Committees Access Control (XACML) Auto Repair Business Transaction Protocol (BTP) Common Biometric Format (XCBF) Conformance Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) Controlled Trade Customer Information Quality (CIQ) Digital Signature Services (DSS) Directory Services (DSML) DocBook ebXML Collaborative Partners (CPPA) ebXML Implementation, Interoperability (IIC) ebXML Messaging ebXML Registry Education XML E-Government Election and Voter Services Emergency XML Entity Resolution Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Human Markup LegalXML Court Filing LegalXML eContracts LegalXML eNotarization LegalXML Integrated Justice LegalXML Lawful Intercept LegalXML Legislative Information LegalXML Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) LegalXML Transcripts Localization Interchange (XLIFF)

17. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Current Technical Committees (cont.) Management Protocol Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Open Office XML Format Provisioning Services (SPML) RELAX NG Rights Language (RLTC) Security Services (SAML) Tax XML Topic Maps Published Subjects Topic Maps Published Subjects for Geography and Language Topic Maps Vocabulary for XML Standards Translation Web Services UDDI Specifications Universal Business Language User Interface (UIML) Web Services Distributed Mgmt Web Services for Interactive Applications (WSIA) Web Services Reliable Messaging Web Services Remote Portal (WSRP) Web Services Security (WSS) XSLT Conformance

18. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Technical Committee Details Summary and current status of each TC available at http://oasis- open.org/committees/committees.shtmlhttp://oasis- open.org/committees/committees.shtml TC mail list archives available at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/

19. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 The OASIS Conceptual Model A descriptive, strategic framework to promote coordination of OASIS technical efforts A communication vehicle to promote collaboration with other industry standards organizations Describes high-level architecture components of business solutions

20. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Quality of Services Conceptual Model For OASIS Management S e c u r i t y XML Syntax Network Transport Vertical Industry Area XML and Web Services Area Generalized Processes Specialized Processes Generalized Content Specialized Content Messaging Service Description Language Presentation Description Transaction Patterns Transaction Instance Repository Registry / Directory Process Description Language Content Definition Language Conformance and Interoperability

21. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 The Conformance Area

22. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Quality of Services Conceptual Model For OASIS Management S e c u r i t y XML Syntax Network Transport Vertical Industry Area XML and Web Services Area Generalized Processes Specialized Processes Generalized Content Specialized Content Messaging Service Description Language Presentation Description Transaction Patterns Transaction Instance Repository Registry / Directory Process Description Language Content Definition Language Conformance and Interoperability

23. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Definitions Conformance – Ensuring that an application or implementation of a specification conforms to that specification through testing

24. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 OASIS TCs: Conformance and Interoperability Conformance ebXML Implementation, Interoperability, Conformance (IIC) XSLT Conformance XML Conformance (completed)

25. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 The Vertical Industries Area

26. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Quality of Services Conceptual Model For OASIS Management S e c u r i t y XML Syntax Network Transport Vertical Industry Area XML and Web Services Area Generalized Processes Specialized Processes Generalized Content Specialized Content Messaging Service Description Language Presentation Description Transaction Patterns Transaction Instance Repository Registry / Directory Process Description Language Content Definition Language Conformance and Interoperability

27. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Definitions Business Transaction Patterns – Actual specification of pre-defined combination of business content and business processes for valid business transactions. The specs also describe rules needed to validate combination of specialize and universal business contents and processes. Business Transaction Instance – Particular instance of business transactions generated between trading partners. Represents real binding of Business Content and Business Process. It includes complex business transactions that compose of several sub-business transactions represented as recursive Business Content and Business Process

28. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Definitions (cont.) Business Content Format Definition – Business Content includes everything that composes the payload of business transactions, which dictionary entries, composition of dictionary entries, special business documents, and attachments. Business Content Format Definition is the specification of the data structures, data types, constraints and code lists of all the items necessary to compose valid business content. Specialized Business Content – Industry- or supply chain-specific technical lexicon (terms, properties, values, taxonomic structures) to be used to extend and specialize the Universal content to construct the content of an industry-specific business document.

29. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Definitions (cont.) Universal Business Content – Specifies business terminology and accepted values that may be universally used in business messages that support a broad range of industries, business models and locales; the vocabulary used to construct the business content of a message. This content covers many domains of discourse, such as product, materials management, finance, quality. – Note the distinction between "universal" and "specialized" is relative and could change over time and situation. The purpose of this distinction to drive reuse and achieve manageability and economies of scales.

30. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Definitions (cont.) Universal Business Process – Specifies business processes that are applicable to a broad range of businesses, regardless of the vertical industry or locale within which the business operates or of the specific characteristics of the business. These processes cover many domains of activity that businesses engage in, such as collaborative product development, request for quote, supply chain execution, purchasing, and manufacturing. – Note the distinction between "universal" and "specialized" is relative and could change over time and situation. The purpose of this distinction to drive reuse and achieve manageability and economies of scales.

31. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Definitions (cont.) Specialized Business Process – Specifies business processes that are not Universally applicable but instead are specific to a business operating within a specific industry or supply chain (such as Electronic Components, Pharmaceuticals, Automotive), and locales or business models.

32. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Definitions (cont.) Trading Partner Agreement – Dynamic creation and management of trading partner agreements between partners. Profiles of trading partner’s B2B infrastructure, protocols, contractual agreement for transactions. This layer also defines binding of business processes and business content to complete particular business transactions.

33. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 OASIS TCs: Vertical Automotive Repair Information Controlled Trade Docbook Education XML e-Government Election and Voter Services Emergency Human Markup Tax XML

34. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 OASIS TCs: Vertical (cont.) LegalXML – Court Filing – eContracts – eNotarization – Integrated Justice – Lawful Intercept – Legislative Information – Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) – Transcripts

35. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 OASIS TCs: Vertical (cont.) Generalized Content Definition – Customer Information Quality (CIQ) – Open Office XML Generalized Processes – ebXML CPPA – Localization Interchange Format (XLIFF) – Provisioning Services (SPML) – Translation Web Services – Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM)

36. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 The XML and Web Services Area

37. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Quality of Services Conceptual Model For OASIS Management S e c u r i t y XML Syntax Network Transport Vertical Industry Area XML and Web Services Area Generalized Processes Specialized Processes Generalized Content Specialized Content Messaging Service Description Language Presentation Description Transaction Patterns Transaction Instance Repository Registry / Directory Process Description Language Content Definition Language Conformance and Interoperability

38. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Definitions Business Process Description Language – Specifies the way in which any business process (whether Universal or specific in nature) is recorded, such that is understood and executable in a repeatable fashion by a wide array of humans and/or applications. Directory and Registry Service – Specifies the structure and access protocol of registries and repositories that trading entities can access to discover each other’s capabilities and services. Covers naming, directory, registry, privacy, authorization and identification services.

39. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Definitions (cont.) Repository – Standardized dictionary and repository services that specifies the structure and access protocol and schemas for business content storage and retrieval, which includes the term, its constraints, its representations, etc. Presentation Description Language – This layer describes tools and protocols for user interfaces and user interactions. It also provides specs for different formats needed for effective visual communication with end users, therefore, enhance end-user experience with applications.

40. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Definitions (cont.) Service Description Language – This layer describes the tools and languages for service implementation and service interface, which is key to achieving loosely coupled architecture and reducing the amount of custom programming and the effort of integration between service requester and service provider. Messaging – Standardized message and envelope structure and layout definitions, which have specific technical purposes. This layer addresses the need to record session and communication settings for message transport in order to enable coordination between parties in a business transaction, including parameters that control Reliable Messaging, Secured Messaging, etc.

41. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Definitions (cont.) Security – This layer spans a wide range of abstractions from basic encryption, authentication and authorization on the core XML layer to non-repudiation and security policies in the business process layer. Management – This layer specifies system management tools and standards that can be used to discover the existence,availability and health of a B2B solution. Furthermore, the management tools should also be able to control and configure the components.

42. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Definitions (cont.) Quality of Service – This layer is closely related with the Management layer. It focus overall service-level management issues and related protocols at all level to enable policy management of service-levels and monitor the services provided by applications.

43. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 OASIS TCs: XML and Web Services Registries, Repositories, and Directories – Directory Services (DSML) – ebXML Registry – UDDI Specs Messaging – ebXML Messaging – Web Services Reliable Messaging Content Definition Language – Universal Business Language (UBL)

44. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 OASIS TCs: XML and Web Services (cont.) XML Syntax – Entity Resolution – RELAX NG – Topic Maps Published Subjects – Topic Maps PS Geography /Languages – Topic Maps PS XML Standards Vocabulary

45. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 OASIS TCs: XML and Web Services (cont.) Security – Access Control (XACML) – Common Biometric Format (XCBF) – Digital Signature Services (DSS) – Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) – Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) – Rights Language (RLTC) – Security Services (SAML) – Web Services Security (WSS)

46. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 OASIS TCs: XML and Web Services (cont.) Process Description Language – Business Transaction Protocol (BTP) Presentation Description – User Interface (UIML) – Web Services for Interactive Applications (WSIA) – Web Services Remote Portal (WSRP) Management – Management Protocol – Web Services Distributed Management

47. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 The non-OASIS Area

48. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Quality of Services Conceptual Model For OASIS Management S e c u r i t y XML Syntax Network Transport Vertical Industry Area XML and Web Services Area Generalized Processes Specialized Processes Generalized Content Specialized Content Messaging Service Description Language Presentation Description Transaction Patterns Transaction Instance Repository Registry / Directory Process Description Language Content Definition Language Conformance and Interoperability

49. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Definitions Network Transport – This layer addresses the basic messaging transport protocols needed to communicate on the Internet, messaging services that provide for asynchronous publish/subscribe, asynchronous message queuing, and synchronous request/reply, and how messages are placed on the transport bus and taken off the bus. These standards specify mechanisms for transporting messages in a secure and reliable way Core XML Standards – XML 1.0 is the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard for document syntax. There are associated W3C standards for defining document types and for accessing the data within the documents. This syntax is used to express specifications in the layers above "Core XML Standards" in the Conceptual Model.

50. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 TC details...

51. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Access Control (XACML) Started: May 2001 Charter: develop XACML, a specification for expressing policies for information access over the Internet Co-chairs: Carlisle Adams, Entrust; Hal Lockhart, BEA Current status: Approved OASIS Standard, January 2003

52. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Automotive Repair Information Started: July 2002 Charter: develop XML syntax for exchange of automotive repair information between manufacturers and repair facilities Chair: Paul Greening, individual member Current status: work in progress

53. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Business Transaction Protocol (BTP) Started: March 2001 Charter: develop BTP, an XML-based protocol for managing complex, persistent B2B Internet transactions Chair: Bill Pope, individual member Current status: Committee Specification approved

54. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Common Biometric Format (XCBF) Started: March 2002 Charter: develop XCBF, a standard XML schema for description of biometric information Chair: Phil Griffin, individual member Current status: work in progress

55. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Conformance Started: 1999 Charter: develop guidelines and resources for the creation of conformance test suites Chair: Lynne Rosenthal, NIST; Mark Skall, NIST Current status: Committee Specification approved; continuing work

56. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Content Assembly Mechanism Started: December 2002 Charter: develop a generalized mechanism in XML for business process context and business rules Chair: David Webber, XML Global Current status: first mtg December 2002

57. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Controlled Trade Started: June 2002 Charter: develop a unified vocabulary for trade activities related to controlled products Chair: Todd Harbour, individual member Current status: work in progress

58. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Customer Information Quality (CIQ) Started: early 2000 Charter: develop XML-based specifications for customer profile and addressing information Chair: Ram Kumar, Mastersoft Current status: Committee Specifications approved; continuing work

59. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Digital Signature Services (DSS) Started: December 2002 Charter: develop applications of Digital Signature Chair: Robert Zuccherato, Entrust Current status: first meeting December 2002

60. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Directory Services (DSML) Started: 1999 Charter: develop DSML, an XML- specification for marking up directory services information Co-chairs: James Tauber, mValent; Winston Bumpus, Novell Current status: DSML v2.0 approved as OASIS Standard, April 2002

61. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 DocBook Started: 1992 as Davenport Group; moved to OASIS in 1998 Charter: develop the DocBook DTD/Schema for computer documentation Chair: Norm Walsh, Sun Microsystems Current status: v4.1 approved as an OASIS Standard in January 2001; v4.2 approved as a Committee Spec; continuing work

62. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 ebXML Collaborative Partners (CPPA) Started: July 2001 Charter: continued development of ebXML CPP and CPA specifications Chair: Dale Moberg, Cyclone Commerce Current status: CPPA approved as OASIS Standard, October 2002

63. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 ebXML Implementation, Interop, Conformance (IIC) Started: August 2001 Charter: develop guidelines and tools for interoperability, implementation, and conformance of the ebXML specs in order to promote their adoption Co-chairs: Jacques Durand, Fujitsu; Jeff Eck, GE Global Current status: work in progress

64. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 ebXML Messaging Started: July 2001 Charter: continue development of the ebXML Messaging specification Chair: Ian Jones, individual member Current status: Messaging v2 approved as OASIS Standard in July 2002; continuing work

65. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 ebXML Registry Started: 1999 Charter: continue development of ebXML Registry & Repository specification Chair: Kathryn Breininger, Boeing Current status: RS and RIM v2 approved as OASIS Standards in April 2002; v2.1 approved as Committee Specs; continuing work

66. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Education XML Started: March 2003 Charter: gather requirements and develop XML specifications for Pre- Kindergarten through 12 th grade education Chair: Thomas Vreeland, OpenVES Current status: first meeting March 2003

67. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 e-Government Started: December 2002 Charter: gather requirements for e- government use of XML standards Chair: John Borras, UK Office of E- Envoy Current status: first meeting December 2002

68. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Election and Voter Services Started: May 2001 Charter: develop XML-based specification for the standardization of election and voter information Co-chairs: Anwar Choudhury and John Borras, UK Office of E-Envoy Current status: Committee Specification approved; continuing work

69. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Emergency XML Started: Feb 2003 Charter: creation of schemas for the exchange of public emergency information Chair: Allen Wyke, Blue292 Current status: first meeting 6 February 2003

70. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Entity Resolution Started: November 2000 Charter: revision of SGML Open Catalog Specification (TR 9401:1997; “SOCat”) for XML compliance Chair: Lauren Wood Current status: Committee Specification approved; seeking implementations

71. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Started: January 2003 Charter: define a URI scheme for distributed directory services that enables the identification of resources Co-chairs: Drummond Reed, OneName; Gabe Wachob, Visa Int’l Current status: first mtg January 2003

72. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Human Markup Started: September 2001 Charter: develop XML-based descriptions of human communication Chair: Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga, individual member Current status: Committee Spec in public review

73. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 LegalXML Court Filing Started: June 2002 Charter: develop specifications for XML-based exchange between courts and attorneys Chair: John M. Greacen, individual member Current status: work in progress

74. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 LegalXML eContracts Started: Nov 2002 Charter: develop open XML standards for the markup of legal contract documents Chair: Dan Greenwood, individual member Current status: First meeting November 2002

75. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 LegalXML eNotarization Started: Sept 2002 Charter: develop an agreed set of technical requirements to govern self- proving electronic legal information Chair: John Messing, individual member Current status: work in progress

76. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 LegalXML Integrated Justice Started: Sept 2002 Charter: develop XML specifications for exchanging data among justice system branches and agencies Chair: David Roberts, individual member Current status: work in progress

77. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 LegalXML Lawful Intercept Started: January 2003 Charter: produce a lawful interception process framework consisting of XML standards and authentication mechanisms Chair: Tony Rutkowski, Verisign Current status: first meeting January 2003

78. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 LegalXML Legislative Information Started: Oct 2002 Charter: develop XML specifications for markup and exchange of legislative information Co-chairs: Daniel Bennett, individual member; Chet Ensign, Lexis Nexis Current status: work in progress

79. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 LegalXML Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Started: Dec 2002 Charter: Develop specifications for online dispute resolution Co-chairs: Jim Keane, individual; Debi Miller-Moore, individual Current status: First meeting December 2002

80. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 LegalXML Transcripts Started: Sept 2002 Charter: develop an XML compliant syntax for representing legal transcript documents either as stand- alone structured content or as part of other legal records Chair: Eddie O’Brien, Ringtail Solutions Current status: work in progress

81. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Localization Interchange (XLIFF) Started: January 2002 Charter: develop XML-based file format for interchange of localization information Chair: Tony Jewtushenko, Oracle Current status: Committee Specification approved; continuing work

82. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Management Protocol Started: July 2002 Charter: develop XML syntax for management protocols Chair: Winston Bumpus, Novell Current status: work in progress

83. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Started: January 2003 Charter: develop white papers, best practices, etc. for the promotion and adoption of PKI Chair: Terry Leahy, Wells Fargo Current status: first meeting Janaury 2003

84. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Open Office XML Format Started: December 2002 Charter: create an open, XML-based file format specification for office applications Chair: Michael Brauer, Sun Microsystems Current status: first meeting 16 December

85. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Provisioning Services Started: November 2001 Charter: define Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML), an XML- based framework for exchanging user, resource, and service provisioning information. Chair: Darran Rolls, Waveset Current status: work in progress

86. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 RELAX NG Started: February 2001 Charter: combine TREX and RELAX proposals into a single light-weight XML schema specification Chair: James Clark, individual member Current status: Committee Specification approved; submitted to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34; continuing work

87. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Rights Language Started: May 2002 Charter: develop digital rights language Chair: Hari Reddy, ContentGuard Current status: work in progress

88. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Security Services (SAML) Started: March 2001 Charter: develop XML specification for the description of authentication and authorization of internet communications Co-chairs: Prateek Mishra, Netegrity; Rob Philpott, RSA Current status: SAML approved as OASIS Standard, Oct 2002

89. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Tax XML Started: December 2002 Charter: develop XML syntax for exchange of tax information Chair: Gregory Carson, US IRS Current status: first meeting 12 December

90. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Topic Maps Published Subjects Started: October 2001 Charter: develop guidelines, recommendations, and applications to promote adoption of Topic Maps Published Subjects (part of ISO 13250 and XML Topic Maps (XTM) 1.0 Specification). Chair: Bernard Vatant, Mondeca Current status: work in progress

91. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 TM Published Subjects for Geography and Language Started: January 2002 Charter: Define TM published subjects for geography and language based on ISO specs Chair: Lars Marius Garshol, individual member Current status: work in progress

92. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 TM Vocabulary for XML Standards Started: January 2002 Charter: define a vocabulary for the domain of XML standards and technologies Chair: Holger Rath, empolis Current status: work in progress

93. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 UDDI Specifications Started: September 2002 Charter: further development of UDDI registry specification Co-chairs: Tom Bellwood, IBM; Luc Clement, Microsoft Current status: work in progress

94. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Universal Business Language (UBL) Started: October 2001 Charter: develop a standard XML business library based on other pre- existing libraries Chair: Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems Current status: work in progress

95. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 User Interface (UIML) Started: December 2002 Charter: develop a specification for an abstract meta-language that can provide a canonical XML representation of any user interface (UI) Chair: Didier Courtand, Assoc. Aristote Current status: first meeting December 2002

96. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) Started: April 2003 Charter: To define XML specifications for web services architecture and technology to manage distributed resources Co-chairs: Winston Bumpus, Novell; Heather Kreger, IBM Current status: First meeting April 2003

97. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Web Services for Interactive Applications (WSIA) Started: November 2001 Charter: Create an XML and web services centric component model for interactive web applications Chair: Charles Wiecha, IBM Current status: work in progress

98. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Web Services Remote Portal (WSRP) Started: March 2002 Charter: Create specification for web services “plug-n-play” portlet to provide content and applications Chair: Thomas Schaeck, IBM Current status: work in progress

99. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Web Services Reliable Messaging (WSRM) Started: March 2003 Charter: Create a generic and open model for ensuring reliable message delivery for Web services Chair: Tom Rutt, Fujitsu Current status: First meeting March 2003

100. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Web Services Security (WSS) Started: Sept 2002 Charter: Continue work on the Web services security foundations published in the WS-Security specification. Co-chairs: Kelvin Lawrence, IBM; Chris Kaler, Microsoft Current status: work in progress

101. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 XSLT Conformance Started: 1999 Charter: develop test suites for testing XSLT application conformance against the W3C XSLT Recommendation Chair: Jeff Kenton, DataPower Current status: work in progress

102. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Joint Committees Purpose: coordination between various OASIS TCs – ebXML JC – Security Standards JC

103. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 ebXML Joint Committee Purpose: coordination between the ebXML OASIS TCs – Registry – CPPA – Messaging – IIC Chair: Dale Moberg, Cyclone Commerce

104. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Security Standards Joint Committee Purpose: coordination between the various security-related OASIS TCs – Access Control – Biometrics – Provisioning – Rights Language – Security Services Chair: Phil Griffin, Griffin Consulting

105. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 OASIS Member Sections A group of technical committees or OASIS members, with its own identity and governance, devoted to a specific technical topic – LegalXML – PKI – UDDI

106. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 LegalXML (member section) Started: 1998, joined OASIS 2002 Charter: development of XML standards for the legal profession Chair: Don Bergeron, LexisNexis Current status: eight technical committees www.legalxml.org

107. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 PKI (member section) Started: 1999, joined OASIS 2002 Charter: development of PKI applications and promotion of PKI technology Chair: Terry Leahy, Wells Fargo Current status: member section formed November 2002; one technical committee

108. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 UDDI (member section) Started: 2000, joined OASIS 2002 Charter: development and implementation of UDDI registry specification Chair: George Zagelow, IBM Current status: member section formed July 2002, one technical committee www.uddi.org

109. Copyright © OASIS Open, 2003 Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Purpose: – Advise the OASIS Board of Directors on technical topics that OASIS could pursue – Develop technical architectures in order to promote coordination between OASIS TCs Formed June 2002 Chair: Eduardo Gutentag, Sun Microsystems

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