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

Committee announcements:
* EML 5.0 becomes an OASIS Standard
* Public review begins for WS-ReliableMessaging errata
* Public review begins for XRI Resolution 2.0
* Third public review begins for Code List Representation 1.0

Other news:
* ITU-T extension reduces the size of CAP messages
* Volunteers translate ODF into Russian
* Nominations open for LegalXML Steering Committee
* Submit abstracts for Open Standards 2008: Composability within SOA

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EML 5.0 becomes an OASIS Standard

Members have approved version 5.0 of the Election Markup Language (EML) as an
OASIS Standard. EML enables the exchange of data for public and private
election services. Congratulations to Election and Voter Services TC chair,
John Borras,
and to all TC participants for this accomplishment.

http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200712/msg00000.html

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Public review begins for WS-ReliableMessaging errata

The OASIS Web Services Reliable Messaging TC has approved a three-part errata
package as a Committee Draft and submitted it for public review. The package
includes errata for WS-ReliableMessaging 1.1, WS-ReliableMessaging Policy
Assertion 1.1, and Web Services Make Connection 1.0. The review ends 17 Dec.

http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200712/msg00001.html

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Public review begins for XRI Resolution 2.0

The OASIS Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) TC has approved version 2.0 of
the XRI Resolution as a Committee Draft and submitted it for public review. The
XRI Resolution defines a simple generic format for resource description (XRDS
documents), a protocol for obtaining XRDS documents from HTTP(S) URIs, and
generic and trusted protocols for resolving XRIs. The review ends 1 Feb.

http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200712/msg00002.html

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Third public review begins for Code List Representation 1.0

The OASIS Code List Representation TC has disposed of comments from the second
public review of version 1.0 of the Code List Representation (Genericode) and
submitted it for a third, 15-day public review. The specification defines an
XML format for interchange, documentation, and management of code lists (a.k.a.
controlled vocabularies or coded value enumerations) in any processing context.
All are invited to provide comments; this review ends 8 Dec.

http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200711/msg00009.html

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ITU-T extension reduces the size of CAP messages

The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) OASIS Standard was enlarged by a binary
ASN.1 specification developed by the International Telecommunication Union's
Standardization Sector (ITU-T). This enables the transport of CAP messages to
VoIP terminals using H.323 and other systems. The OASIS Emergency Management
Technical Committee has adopted this extension to CAP, which is used by many
public emergency services and land management agencies.

http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/newslog/PermaLink,guid,1a2f8dc1-f37e-4e68-92a1-6bfdb0e
39c16.aspx
http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X/e

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Volunteers translate ODF into Russian

Infra-Resource, Ltd has created an unofficial Russian translation of the
OpenDocument Format (ODF) OASIS Standard version 1.0. ODF provides a format
that enables users of varying office suites to freely exchange documents. The
non-normative Russian translation is provided as an informational service to
the global community.

http://www.i-rs.ru/odf/translation

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Nominations open for LegalXML Steering Committee

Beginning 10 Dec, the OASIS LegalXML Member Section will accept nominations for
two seats on its Steering Committee. LegalXML brings legal and technical
experts together to create standards for the electronic exchange of legal data.
All LegalXML members are eligible to nominate or be nominated for the Steering
Committee. Each successful candidate will serve a one-year term. Nominations
will be accepted until 21 Dec, and elections will be held 26 Dec through 7 Jan.

http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200711/msg00013.html

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Submit abstracts for Open Standards 2008: Composability within SOA

The deadline to submit papers for the annual OASIS event is 17 Dec. The Open
Standards 2008 symposium will be held 28 April - 1 May, 2008 in Santa Clara,
California, USA.

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

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Important dates

7 Dec:
Public review for Search Web Services discussion document closes
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200711/msg00003.html

10-13 Dec:
Open CSA hosts free webinar series on SCA
http://www.oasis-open.org/events/webinars/sca-2007.php

17 Dec:
Deadline to submit papers for Open Standards 2008 symposium
http://events.oasis-open.org/home/symposium/2008

Public review for WS-ReliableMessaging errata ends
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200712/msg00001.html

18 Dec:
EDXL Hospital AVailability Exchange (HAVE) 1.0 public review ends
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200710/msg00009.html

21 Dec:
ODF 1.1 Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 public review ends
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200710/msg00010.html

Nominations for LegalXML Steering Committee close
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200711/msg00013.html

1 Feb:
XRI Resolution 2.0 public review ends
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200712/msg00002.html

4-6 Mar:
IDtrust Symposium
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200711/msg00003.html

28 Apr - 1 May:
  OASIS hosts 'Open Standards 2008: SOA Composability' symposium
  http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2007/

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