The international standards organization, OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), has elected four members to its Board of Directors. Newly-elected members include John Borras of the United Kingdom Office of e-Envoy and Eduardo Gutentag of Sun. Jim Hughes of Hewlett-Packard and Chris Kurt of Microsoft were both re-elected by OASIS members.

OASIS is a non-profit global consortium that works toward the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards. The OASIS members determine the group's technical agenda by using an open process that is designed to promote industry consensus and unification. OASIS currently has more than 2,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries.

The four new and returning members are expected to help fellow OASIS members in providing business leadership to help advance the group as a major standards-setting body for Web Services, e-business security and other applications. The directors will each serve a two-year term.

Four other members were also appointed to the OASIS Technical Advisory Board (TAB), which is a group of industry experts who provide guidance on a range of issues including strategy, process, interoperability and the scope of OASIS technical work. The new OASIS TAB representatives include William Cox, Ph.D. of BEA Systems, Christopher Ferris of IBM, Timothy Moses, Ph.D. of Entrust and Peter Wenzel of SeeBeyond.

Patrick Gannon, the president and CEO of OASIS, also made a statement of appreciation for the two departing board members, Simon Nicholson of Sun and Michael Weiner of IBM. Gannon hailed the pair's outstanding leadership and guidance over the past two years.

"We had an unprecedented number of exceptionally qualified candidates for this year's Board election; testimony to the fact that OASIS has become one of the most important independent standards development organizations," noted Colin Evans of Intel, chair of the OASIS Board of Directors. "Most often identified with programs such as ebXML and UBL for e-commerce, and UDDI for directories, OASIS and its members are rapidly expanding its scope to Web services standards and vertical community initiatives." [...read more...]

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