1. Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS Technical Work Status XML 2002 Conference Baltimore, December 2002 Karl Best OASIS Vice President

2. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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. International, not-for-profit, open, independent Successful through industry-wide collaboration

3. Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS Growth December 2001 – ~200 organizational members, ~200 individual members – 21 TCs – one approved OASIS Standard December 2002 – 300+ organizational members, ~275 individual members – 48 TCs, 3 member sections – 7 approved OASIS Standards – ~20 Committee Specs completed; some to be submitted to OASIS members for approval

4. Copyright OASIS, 2002 2002 Highlights Approval of OASIS Standards – ebXML RIM (April 2002) – ebXML RS (April 2002) – DSML (April 2002) – ebXML Messaging (July 2002) – SAML (Nov 2002) – ebXML CPPA (Nov 2002) Creation of Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Conferences – Sponsored ebXML Day at XML Europe 2002 – Co-sponsored (with W3C) the Forum on Security Standards for Web Services

5. Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS technical agenda The OASIS technical agenda is set by our members; bottom-up approach Technical committees formed by the proposal of our members Each TC sets its own schedule and deliverables

6. Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS relationships Attempt to cooperate and liaise with other standards organizations wherever possible – Prevent duplication, promote interoperability – Gain additional sanction/authority for OASIS work Working relationships with – W3C, OMG, IDEAlliance, OAG, HL7, CommerceNet, LISA, etc.

7. Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS relationships (cont.) Formal relationships with – ISO/IEC/ITU/UNECE 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

8. Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS Infrastructure Time to Market: bring your work to OASIS 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

9. Copyright OASIS, 2002 Vendors have submitted specs to OASIS TCs Most TCs have started with existing, contributed work Contributions such as – WSXL from IBM – XOCP from BEA Systems – xCBL from Commerce One – ITML from Jamcracker – CRML, others from MSI – XrML from ContentGuard – WS-S from IBM, Microsoft, Verisign – etc. Contributions may be on RAND or RF basis

10. Copyright OASIS, 2002 Dot-orgs have moved to OASIS ADpr Initiative AuthXML.org ITML.org LegalXML.org PKI Forum S2ML.org TopicMaps.org UDDI.org WSUI.org XRPM Working Group

11. Copyright OASIS, 2002 Progression 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. 3.TC conducts and completes technical work; open and publicly viewable work 4.TC votes to approve work as an OASIS Committee Specification 5.TC conducts public review, and three or more OASIS members implement the specification 6.TC votes to submit the Committee Specification to OASIS membership for consideration 7.OASIS membership reviews, approves the Committee Specification as an OASIS Standard

12. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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 E-Government Election and Voter Services 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) (more...)

13. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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 for Interactive Applications (WSIA) Web Services Remote Portal (WSRP) Web Services Security (WSS) XSLT Conformance

14. Copyright OASIS, 2002 Technical Committee Details Summary of each TC available at http://oasis-open.org/committees TC mail list archives available at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives

15. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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

16. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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

17. Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS TCs: Conformance and Interoperability Conformance ebXML Implementation, Interoperability, Conformance (IIC) XSLT Conformance XML Conformance (completed)

18. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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

19. Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS TCs: Vertical Automotive Repair Information Controlled Trade Docbook e-Government Election and Voter Services Human Markup Tax XML

20. Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS TCs: Vertical (cont.) LegalXML – Court Filing – eContracts – eNotarization – Integrated Justice – Lawful Intercept – Legislative Information – Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) – Transcripts

21. Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS TCs: Vertical (cont.) Generalized Content Definition – Customer Information Quality (CIQ) – Open Office XML Generalized Processes – ebXML CPPA – XLIFF – Provisioning Services (SPML) – Translation Web Services – Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM)

22. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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, 2002 OASIS TCs: XML and Web Services Registries, Repositories, and Directories – DSML – ebXML Registry – UDDI Specs Messaging – ebXML Messaging Content Definition Language – UBL

24. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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

25. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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)

26. Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS TCs: XML and Web Services (cont.) Process Description Language – BTP Presentation Description – UIML – WSIA – WSRP Management – Management Protocol

27. Copyright OASIS, 2002 Joint Committees and Member Sections

28. Copyright OASIS, 2002 Joint Committees Purpose: forum for coordination between various OASIS TCs – ebXML JC – Security Standards JC

29. Copyright OASIS, 2002 ebXML Joint Committee Purpose: coordination between the ebXML OASIS TCs – Registry – CPPA – Messaging – IIC Chair: Dale Moberg, Cyclone Commerce

30. Copyright OASIS, 2002 Security Standards Joint Committee Purpose: coordination between the various security-related OASIS TCs – Access Control (XACML) – Common Biometric Format (XCBF) – Digital Signature Services (DSS) – Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) – Provisioning Services (SPML) – Rights Language (RLTC) – Security Services (SAML) – Web Services Security (WSS) Chair: Phil Griffin, Griffin Consulting

31. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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

32. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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

33. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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 www.pkiforum.org

34. Copyright OASIS, 2002 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

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

36. Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS this week Member Reception – Wednesday 7:00-8:30 p.m. Room 301 TC meetings (rooms #306, 315) – Monday: XCBF – Tuesday: CIQ – Wednesday: WSS – Thursday: Election, WSS, Topic Maps, Tax XML – Friday: e-Gov, Topic Maps, LegalXML Legislative Multiple conference sessions OASIS Booth #131

37. Copyright OASIS, 2002 Upcoming OASIS Events Forum on Web Services – 4 March 2003, at Web Services One conference, Santa Clara Annual General Members Meeting – 4 March 2003, Santa Clara ebXML Day – 5-6 May, at XML Europe 2003, London

38. Copyright OASIS, 2002 For more information... www.oasis-open.org xml.coverpages.org www.xml.org