OASIS Committees by Category

• Adoption Services
  To facilitate adoption, OASIS members develop guidelines, best practices, test suites, and other tools that promote the interoperability and conformance of structured information standards.
  
  
• Computing Management
  In a service-oriented architecture, the providers and consumers of services must communicate clearly about their availability and location, and the services themselves must be able to talk to and depend on each other. OASIS members work on many fronts to standardize the reliable management of distributed resources, utility computing and grid systems.
  
  
• Document-Centric Applications
  From the consortium's roots as SGML Open, OASIS has been devoted to the device- and media-independent creation and management of documents. Today, OASIS members work on structured information standards for documents that run the gamut from online catalogs to data sheets, from technical manuals to office memoranda, whether output to paper, CD-ROM, wireless devices, the Web, or all of the above.
  
  
• e-Commerce
  OASIS members develop specifications that enable enterprises of any size, in any geographical location, to conduct business over the Internet.
  
  
• Law & Government
  OASIS provides a forum to unite international communities of governments, legal professionals, and suppliers who share the common goal to advance the electronic exchange of information.
  
  
• Localisation
  Internationalization and localization are vital areas for the OASIS global community. OASIS Localisation TCs develop standards that enable publications, software interfaces, etc. to be adapted for non-native environments, especially other nations and cultures.
  
  
• Security
  OASIS develops security standards needed in e-business and Web services applications. Members define foundational as well as application-level specifications.
  
  
• SOA
  Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) represents a collection of best practices principles and patterns related to service-aware, enterprise-level, distributed computing. SOA standardization efforts at OASIS focus on workflows, translation coordination, orchestration, collaboration, loose coupling, business process modeling, and other concepts that support agile computing.
  
  
• Standards Adoption
  Not all OASIS Committees develop standards as their primary goal. OASIS Standards Adoption Committees provide forums that unite specific industries or communities of users, governments, vendors, industry groups, and other standards bodies. These Committees evaluate existing standards, articulate requirements, identify gaps, recognize overlaps, publish guidelines, and promote interoperability. They provide input to OASIS TCs (and other organizations) that develop pertinent specifications, and they recommend new efforts where needed.
  
  
• Supply Chain
  OASIS members advance a range of efforts to support procurement, maintenance, and manufacturing functions within the supply chain.
  
  
• Web Services
  Web services allow applications to communicate across platforms and programming languages using standard protocols based on XML. OASIS members are defining many of the infrastructure standards that enable Web services as well as the implementation standards that are used in specific communities and across industries.
  
  
• XML Processing
  Covering the spectrum of XML applications, OASIS technical committees continue to work on the underlying architecture that facilitates XML processing.