11. ● OASIS is a member-led, “The largest
international non-profit standards group for
standards consortium for electronic commerce
global e-business & the on the Web.”
information economy
● Over 650 members
● Over 70 technical
committees producing
royalty-free and RAND
standards
Best-known works include: OpenDocument Format, CMIS and DITA (documents);
SAML, XACML, KMIP, IMI, ID-Cloud and WS-Security (identity & security);
BPEL, UDDI, WS-RM and the SOA Reference Model (SOA & web services);
CAP, UBL & ebXML (e-government)
12. OASIS interoperates with the world
Cooperation, liaison and harmonization with other standards
organizations is a first-class OASIS priority
Formal working relationships with:
ISO, IEC, ITU, UN-ECE MoU for E-Business
ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34, SC38; ISO TCs 154, 215, ITU-T SG 17
IPTC, OECD, SWIFT, UPU, World Bank
Asia PKI, Changfeng (Beijing), CESI, EA-ECA, Korean NIA,
CEN/ISSS, European ICTSB, ETSI, PSLX, Standards-AU
ABA, ACORD, AIAG, CalConnect, HL7, MBAA, NAESB, LRC,
InfoCard/OpenID, Kantara/Liberty, LISA, OAGi, OGC, OMA,
OMG, RosettaNet/UCC, W3C, WS-I
13.
14. What is a “Standard”?
Standard
Anything on which a few vendors agree?
Well, no. An open standard is:
Publicly available
Stable, persistent versions
Published rules
Open process (public comments, archives,
no NDAs)
Explicit, disclosed, finite IPR terms
Anything else is proprietary: this is a
regulatory policy distinction, not a pejorative.
15. How open standards cause
interoperability & convergence
Standards are modular
Users and developers test whether the
method can be used in conjunction with other
specifications
Modular methods can be phased into legacy
architectures
Modular methods are less
vulnerable to vendor lock-in
No-one uses just ONE
standard
16. OASIS DocBook
Since 1998; latest: v5.0 (2009)
Workspace: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook
Spec: http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#docbook
Structured document authoring using XML or
SGML, starting with software and hardware
technical documentation use cases.
From Markup to publishing-specific functionality
• inline graphics
• title and subtitle handling
• bibliographies, defined terms, lists and cross
references
• delimiters for blocks of texts, subjects, ancillary
matter
17. OASIS DITA
Darwin Information Typing Architecture
Since 2004; Latest = v5.0 (2009)
Workspace: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/dita
Specification: http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#ditav1.2
XML schemas for modular, topic-based information
presentation. Extensible by specialization, where new,
supplemental semantic structures, document types and
data types can be added for specific topics. Current DITA
vocabulary specializations include learning & training
content, pharmaceutical content, web content,
semiconductor design content, and translation content.
Documents atomize semantically, into topics and
maps, associated with metadata, vocabularies and
other re-useable bytes; renditions of the material may
vary widely from use to use and processor to
processor.
18. OASIS CMIS
Content Management Interoperability Services
Since 2008; Latest = v1.0 (2010)
Workspace: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/cmis
Specification: http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#cmisv1.0
CMIS provides a data exchange model, abstract
capabilities set and set of data bindings for Content
Management repositories/systems, to work with each
other and outside applications, to support aggregate
content use that leverages current repositories.
Chief use cases include portals and mashups that
consume content from multiple systems; searches
across repositories for re-use, records management
and audit purposes; and subscription & notification
services.
19. OASIS XLIFF
XML Localisation Interchange File Format
Since 2001; Latest = v1.2 (2008)
Workspace: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xliff
Specification: http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php#xliffv1.2
XLIFF is a set of XML vocabularies for standardized
interchange of localisable software, document-based
objects and related metadata between localization
tools..
20. OASIS OAXAL
Open Architecture for XML Authoring & Localization Ref. Model
Since 2008; Latest = v1.0 (2009)
Workspace: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/oaxal
Specification: http://www.oasis-
open.org/committees/download.php/35736/OASIS%20Open
%20Architecture%20for%20XML%20Authoring%20and
%20Localization%20Reference%20Model%20%28OAXAL%29.pdf
The Open Architecture for XML Authoring and
Localization Reference Model provides for an
integrated document creation and localization
environment, including planned support for W3C ITS,
LISA OSCAR xml:tm, LISA GMX, LISA TMX, Unicode
TR29, OASIS XLIFF, and various open standard XML
Vocabularies such as DITA, Docbook, XHTML, SVG
and ODF.
21. What should stakeholders do?
Bring your use cases to the
standards table
Be prepared to compromise
If you can participate as an active
contributor, do so
If you don’t have the bandwidth to
contribute actively, be a good
observer
Understand the ground rules
Expect conformance
Be a good citizen