Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is a non-profit: international consortium that creates interoperable industry specifications for e-Business based on public standards such as XML and SGML: as well as others that are related to structured information processing: directory and transaction processing. Oasis is the standards home that the DSML group chose for DSML. Initiative on digital rights announced April 2002 - MS, ContentGuard, HP, Verisign - plan to use XML lamguage (Extensible Rights Markup Language) to specify and manage rights linked to resources such as digital content and web services.
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The DSML group has defined an XML representation of the directory contents and operations. The UDDI (now integrated into OASIS) is developing a directory-like service for location of businesses on the web. |
The Security Forum monitors the work of OASIS on interoperable industry specifications for eBusiness based on XMLOASIS publication on 15 July 2002 of the SAML specification represents a major contribution to Boundaryless Information Flow, because it is likely to become the pervasive way to exchange trusted security credentials within and between systems. |
http://www.oasis-open.org
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