OASIS Launches OpenDocument XML.org; New Web Site Enables Community to Share, Track, and Monitor Information on the OpenDocument Format.LYON, France -- The OASIS international standards consortium today launched a new web site, OpenDocument XML.org (http://opendocument.xml.org), designed to serve as the official community gathering place and information resource for the OpenDocument Format (ODF). An international standard approved by OASIS, ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. and IEC, OpenDocument enables users of varying office products to freely exchange documents. "There is so much excitement and momentum behind OpenDocument right now," said Don Harbison of IBM, co-chair of the OASIS ODF Adoption Committee, which provides editorial guidance for the new site. "We wanted to offer the community a central location where they can easily find reliable information on the technology and the marketplace." "OpenDocument XML.org also provides a genuine community experience, connecting implementers with users, and making it possible for people to learn from one another and contribute to a growing knowledge base," added Erwin Tenhumberg of Sun Microsystems, co-chair of the OASIS ODF Adoption Committee. "The site supports a wiki interface, blogs, forums, and other interactive methods of communication." All OpenDocument XML.org pages are accessible by the public, and readers are encouraged to contribute content. In addition to technical and educational background material on the standard, the site features a community bulletin board and directory where readers share news, events, product and services listings, information on deployments in the public and private sectors, case studies, testimonials, and recommendations on books, white papers, and other useful resources. OpenDocument XML.org is sponsored by IBM, Intel, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. About OASIS OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. The consortium produces open standards for Web services, security, e-business, and standardization efforts in the public sector and for application-specific markets. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries. Approved OASIS Standards include AVDL AVDL Application Vulnerability Description Language , BCM, CAP, DITA, DocBook, DSML (Directory Services Markup Language) A set of XML tags that defines the contents of a directory. Developed by Bowstreet, Inc., Tewksbury, MA (www.bowstreet. , ebXML CPPA CPPA Collaboration Protocol Profile and Agreement (Oasis) CPPA Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 CPPA Canadian Pulp & Paper Association CPPA Corrugated Polyethylene Pipe Association , ebXML Messaging, ebXML Registry, EDXL-DE, EML, OpenDocument, SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) An XML-based format from OASIS for exchanging security information for single sign-on. The "assertions" are statements from a SAML authority that authenticate a user, confirm some attribute about the individual and grant or , SPML SPML - server-parsed HTML , UBL, UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) An industry initiative for a universal business registry (catalog) of Web services turned over to the stewardship of OASIS in 2002 as the version 3 specification of UDDI was released. , WSDM WSDM Web Services Distributed Management WSDM Web Site Design Method , WS-Reliability, WSRF, WSRP, WS-Security, XACML (EXtensible Access Control Markup Language) An OASIS standard for managing access control policy. Released in 2003 and based on XML, the Sun-developed XACML was designed to become a universal standard for describing who has access to which resources. , XCBF, and XML Catalogs. http://www.oasis-open.org Additional information: OpenDocument XML.org http://opendocument.xml.org OASIS OpenDocument Technical Committee http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office OASIS ODF Adoption Committee http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/odf-adoption |
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