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

Copyright OASIS, 2002

OASIS Technical Work StatusXML 2002 Conference

Baltimore, December 2002

Karl BestOASIS Vice President


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


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


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


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


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.


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


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


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


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


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


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...)


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


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


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OASIS TCs: Conformance and Interoperability• Conformance

• ebXML Implementation, Interoperability, Conformance (IIC)

• XSLT Conformance

• XML Conformance (completed)


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OASIS TCs: Vertical

• Automotive Repair Information

• Controlled Trade

• Docbook

• e-Government

• Election and Voter Services

• Human Markup

• Tax XML


OASIS TCs: Vertical (cont.)

• LegalXML – Court Filing

– eContracts

– eNotarization

– Integrated Justice

– Lawful Intercept

– Legislative Information

– Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)

– Transcripts


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)


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OASIS TCs: XML and Web Services• Registries, Repositories, and Directories

– DSML

– ebXML Registry

– UDDI Specs

• Messaging– ebXML Messaging

• Content Definition Language– UBL


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


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)


OASIS TCs: XML and Web Services (cont.)• Process Description Language

– BTP

• Presentation Description– UIML

– WSIA

– WSRP

• Management– Management Protocol


Joint Committees and Member Sections


Joint Committees

• Purpose: forum for coordination between various OASIS TCs– ebXML JC

– Security Standards JC


ebXML Joint Committee

• Purpose: coordination between the ebXML OASIS TCs– Registry

– CPPA

– Messaging

– IIC

• Chair: Dale Moberg, Cyclone Commerce


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


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


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

http://www.legalxml.org/


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

http://www.pkiforum.org/


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

http://www.uddi.org/


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


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


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


For more information...

• www.oasis-open.org

• xml.coverpages.org

• www.xml.org

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