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33-561: It is a Conformance Profile of the OASIS ebMS 3.0 specification. AS4 became an OASIS standard in 2013 and an ISO standard in 2020. The majority of the AS4 profiling points constraining the ebMS 3.0 specification are based upon the functional requirements of the AS2 specification. By scaling back ebMS 3.0 using AS2 as a blueprint, AS4 provides an entry-level on-ramp for Web services B2B by simplifying

66-403: A RAND clause in its policy, welcomed the initiative and supposed OASIS will not continue using that policy as other companies involved would follow. The RAND policy has still not been removed and other commercial companies have not published such a free statement towards OASIS. Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS from 2001 to 2008, minimized the risk that a company could take advantage of

99-481: A blog post blaming Microsoft of involving people to improve and modify the accuracy of ODF and OpenXML Misplaced Pages articles. The Document Foundation The Document Foundation ( TDF ) is a non-profit organization that promotes open-source document handling software. It was created by members of the OpenOffice.org community to manage and develop LibreOffice , a free and open-source office suite, and

132-542: A member of the advisory board. In November 2012, Lanedo joined the advisory board. In June 2013, the French Inter-Ministry Mutualisation for an Open Productivity Suite (MIMO)—the government working group responsible for 500,000 desktops—and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) of Saudi Arabia joined the advisory board. In July 2013, TDF announced that AMD joined the advisory board. Swiss FOSS company Adfinis joined

165-1131: A new set of specifications for electronic business. The joint initiative, called " ebXML " and which first met in November 1999, was chartered for a three-year period. At the final meeting under the original charter, in Vienna, UN/CEFACT and OASIS agreed to divide the remaining work between the two organizations and to coordinate the completion of the work through a coordinating committee. In 2004 OASIS submitted its completed ebXML specifications to ISO TC154 where they were approved as ISO 15000 . The consortium has its headquarters in Woburn, Massachusetts , shared with other companies. In December 2020, OASIS moved to its current location, 400 TradeCenter Drive. Previous office locations include 25 Corporate Drive Suite 103 and 35 Corporate Drive, Suite 150, both in Burlington, MA. The following standards are under development or maintained by OASIS technical committees: Adhesion to

198-617: A runny nose. They blew it. In October 2010 Linux Magazine ' s Bruce Byfield suggested that the formation of The Document Foundation is just the Go-oo project reinventing itself to the long-term detriment of users. What happened, I suspect, was that Go-OO, already chafing under Sun's tight control of OpenOffice.org's direction, saw more of the same – if not worse – awaiting in Oracle. Hoping to succeed before Oracle could articulate its plans, Go-OO members reinvented themselves, and announced

231-448: A sine-qua-non condition to access the consortium, and possibly jeopardize/boycott the standard if such a clause was not present. Doug Mahugh — while working for Microsoft (a promoter of Office Open XML , a Microsoft document format competing with OASIS's ISO/IEC 26300 , i.e. ODF v1.0) — claimed that "many countries have expressed frustration about the pace of OASIS's responses to defect reports that have been submitted on ISO/IEC 26300 and

264-453: A standard to request royalties when it has been established, saying "If it's an option nobody uses, then what's the harm?" . Sam Hiser, former marketing lead of the now defunct OpenOffice.org , explained that such patents towards an open standard are counterproductive and inappropriate. He also argued that IBM and Microsoft were shifting their standardization efforts from the W3C to OASIS, in

297-448: A technical level, and changes are possible – there is no indication from Oracle to change its mind on the question of the project organization and management. For those who want to achieve such a change, but see no realistic opportunity within the current project and are therefore involved in the TDF, unfortunately this results in an "either / or" question. The answer for us who sign this letter

330-507: A way to leverage probably their patents portfolio in the future. Hiser also attributed this RAND change to the OASIS policy to Microsoft. The RAND term could indeed allow any company involved to leverage their patent in the future, but that amendment was probably added in a way to attract more companies to the consortium, and encourage contributions from potential participants. Big actors like Microsoft could have indeed applied pressure and made

363-432: Is clear: We want a change to give the community as well as the software it develops the opportunity to evolve. For this reason, from now on we will support The Document Foundation and will – as a team – develop and promote LibreOffice. When the project was announced, The Document Foundation did not exist as a legal entity. The Steering Committee wished to formally set up a foundation, and following research chose to establish

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396-710: Is legally registered in Germany as a Stiftung . Its goal is to produce a vendor-independent office suite with ODF support in a development environment free from company control. The Document Foundation was created partially over fears that Oracle Corporation , after acquiring Sun Microsystems , would discontinue developing OpenOffice.org as it had done with OpenSolaris . The Document Foundation has multiple bodies running its operations: In addition an informal advisory board exists to connect with other organizations and entities. The seventh elected Board of Directors has seven members and three deputies. As of May 2024,

429-484: Is not only a general division and duplication of effort, but, in Oracle's case, a decision to focus on proprietary development as a defensive measure. By making the gambit that it did, The Document Foundation may have perpetuated another version of the stalemate that it was trying to break. In April 2011, Oracle announced its intention to move OpenOffice.org to a "purely community-based project". Oracle also terminated its commercial product, called Oracle Open Office . In

462-434: Is that it will divide a community that didn't need to be divided. The free software community thrives on forked projects and will actively take the path of greater freedom. Mambo became Joomla, Xfree86 has all but disappeared and StarOffice is now regarded as the less-free cousin of OpenOffice.org (and not in a good way). What Oracle have just done is put their fingers in their ears and say "la la la" to their critics from within

495-602: The BrOffice Centre of Excellence for Free Software , the organization behind BrOffice joined the Foundation. The Foundation also made available a re-branded fork of OpenOffice.org which was based on the upcoming 3.3 version, with patches and build software from the Go-oo fork. It was hoped that the LibreOffice name would be provisional as Oracle was invited to become a member of The Document Foundation, and

528-705: The Board of Directors composition is: The Document Foundation employs Florian Effenberger as executive director, who oversees a team of 10 people. In June 2011 the foundation announced that it had formed an advisory board. The initial members included Google , SUSE , Red Hat , the German registered society Freies Office Deutschland e.V. , Software in the Public Interest , and the Free Software Foundation . In February 2012, Intel became

561-547: The advisory board in May 2019. In July 2019, the UK Government Digital Service joined. The Document Foundation was announced on 28 September 2010 with the Foundation being governed by a "Steering Committee" during the phase of initial creation. The announcement received support from companies including Novell , Red Hat , Canonical and Google . In December 2010, The Document Foundation announced that

594-412: The code was in no way impaired. Oracle's decision appears to be simply that, after a year of evaluation, the profit to be made from developing Oracle Open Office and Oracle Cloud Office did not justify the salaries of over 100 senior developers working on them both. Suggesting that TDF was in some way to blame for a hard-headed business decision that seemed inevitable from the day Oracle's acquisition of Sun

627-730: The complexities of Web services. This computer networking article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards ( OASIS ; / oʊ ˈ eɪ . s ɪ s / ) is a nonprofit consortium that works on the development, convergence, and adoption of projects - both open standards and open source - for Computer security , blockchain , Internet of things (IoT), emergency management , cloud computing , legal data exchange , energy , content technologies , and other areas. OASIS

660-443: The consortium requires some fees to be paid, which must be renewed annually, depending on the membership category adherents want to access. Among the adherents are members from Dell , IBM , ISO/IEC , Cisco Systems , KDE e.V. , Microsoft , Oracle , Red Hat , The Document Foundation , universities, government agencies, individuals and employees from other less-known companies. Member sections are special interest groups within

693-454: The consortium that focus on specific topics. These sections keep their own distinguishable identity and have full autonomy to define their work program and agenda. The integration of the member section in the standardization process is organized via the technical committees. Active member sections are for example: Member sections may be completed when they have achieved their objectives. The standards that they promoted are then maintained by

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726-483: The foundation in Germany. On 16 February 2011, a fundraising drive was announced to raise the €50,000 needed to create a German foundation. The required amount was raised in eight days. After clearing legal requirements, the foundation was finally incorporated on 17 February 2012. In assessing Oracle's role in the events surrounding the establishment of The Document Foundation, writer Ryan Cartwright in late October 2010 said: The worst thing about this move by Oracle

759-505: The foundation that they had long been calling for. But Oracle refused to be stampeded, and escalated the fork into something that resembles corporate warfare. Whatever the merits of either side (and I am most inclined to support The Document Foundation, although only on the principle that any number is greater than zero), I suspect that the losers in this situation will be the users. The risk is that time will continue to be spent in flame wars that could be better spent in coding. What seems likely

792-466: The free software community. With that move they will recruit several more opponents... The bottom line is that in all of this Oracle had golden opportunity after golden opportunity to make real progress for everyone – not just the OpenOffice.org or the free software community. They could have been the key player and the biggest part of the most popular free software office suite and they treated it like

825-557: The inability for SC 34 members to participate in the maintenance of ODF." However, Rob Weir, co-chair of the OASIS ODF Technical Committee noted that at the time, "the ODF TC had received zero defect reports from any ISO/IEC national body other than Japan". He added that the submitter of the original Japanese defect report, Murata Mokoto, was satisfied with the preparation of the errata. He also self-published

858-418: The movement of the industry to XML , SGML Open changed its emphasis from SGML to XML, and changed its name to OASIS Open to be inclusive of XML and reflect an expanded scope of technical work and standards. The focus of the consortium's activities also moved from promoting adoption (as XML was getting much attention on its own) to developing technical specifications. In July 2000 a new technical committee process

891-449: The possibility of free / open source implementations of these standards. Further, contributors could initially offer royalty-free use of their patent, later imposing per-unit fees, after the standard has been accepted. On April 11, 2005, The New York Times reported IBM committed, for free, all of its patents to the OASIS group. Larry Rosen, a software law expert and the leader of the reaction which rose up when OASIS quietly included

924-539: The relevant technical committees directly within OASIS. For example: Like many bodies producing open standards e.g. ECMA , OASIS added a Reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing (RAND) clause to its policy in February 2005. That amendment required participants to disclose intent to apply for software patents for technologies under consideration in the standard. Contrary to the W3C , which requires participants to offer royalty-free licenses to anyone using

957-551: The resulting standard, OASIS offers a similar Royalty Free on Limited Terms mode, along with a Royalty Free on RAND Terms mode and a RAND (reasonable and non-discriminatory) mode for its committees. Compared to W3C, OASIS is less restrictive regarding obligation to companies to grant a royalty-free license to the patents they own. Controversy has rapidly arisen because this licensing was added silently and allows publication of standards which could require licensing fee payments to patent holders. This situation could effectively eliminate

990-497: The view of some these moves were a reaction to the formation of The Document Foundation, but according to former Sun executive Simon Phipps : The act of creating The Document Foundation and its LibreOffice project did no demonstrable harm to Oracle's business. There is no new commercial competition to Oracle Open Office (their commercial edition of OO.o) arising from LibreOffice. No contributions that Oracle valued were ended by its creation. Oracle's ability to continue development of

1023-463: Was approved. With the adoption of the process the manner in which technical committees were created, operated, and progressed their work was regularized. At the adoption of the process there were five technical committees; by 2004 there were nearly 70 . During 1999, OASIS was approached by UN/CEFACT , the committee of the United Nations dealing with standards for business, to jointly develop

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1056-499: Was asked to donate the OpenOffice.org brand to the project. Following the announcement, Oracle asked members of the OpenOffice.org Community Council who were members of The Document Foundation to step down from the council, claiming that this represented a conflict of interest, leaving the community council composed 100% of Oracle employees. Jacqueline Rahemipour, Co-Lead of the OpenOffice.org Board, stated: Although it has been stressed several times that there will be collaboration on

1089-492: Was founded under the name "SGML Open" in 1993. It began as a trade association of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) tool vendors to cooperatively promote the adoption of SGML through mainly educational activities, though some amount of technical activity was also pursued including an update of the CALS Table Model specification and specifications for fragment interchange and entity management. In 1998, with

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