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2007
ISO/IEC 19776-3 - New X3D Standard Approved
A member of the X3D family of standards, originally developed by the Web3D Consortium, this new ISO standard specifies a representation of three-dimensional objects encoded with Fast Infoset. <more info>

December 2006
UBL 2.0 Approved as OASIS Standard - OASIS, the international standards consortium, today announced that its members have approved the Universal Business Languag (UBL) version 2.0 as an OASIS standard...
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Sept 2003, InfoWorld - Key to Sun's Fast Web Services approach is boosting performance through use of binary encodings as an alternative to textual XML representations. <full article>

In the News

April 2008
OASIS Emergency Interoperability - EDXL Resource Messaging public review begins

"The OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee has approved the Emergency Data Exchange Language Resource Messaging (EDXL-RM) 1.o as a Committee Draft and submitted the package for public review." <full article>

Learn more about ASN.1 and Emergency Interoperability

March 2008
OCG News - President's Message - Ocean Scientists Embrace OGC Standards

"The work of OGC alliance partners is also important in addressing the interoperability needs of the ocean science community. The OASIS Common Alert Protocol (CAP) standard, for example, has elements that are harmonized with OGC standards, and CAP is growing in importance for issuing warning messages in emergency situations. It is being applied in some of the ocean science activities..." <full article>

November 2007
ITU-T Newslog - Common Alerting Protocol becomes ITU-T Recommendation

"The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) v.1.1 developed by OASIS was the basis for the text that will be published as an ITU-T Recommendation following approval on 12 September. The original v1.1 specification was enlarged by a binary ASN.1 specification of the CAP messages that will enable the transport of CAP messages to VoIP terminals using H.323 among other systems. Experts say the use of ASN.1 significantly reduces the size of the message and therefore the potential for network congestion." <full article>

April 2004
IBM developerWorks - Who needs binary XML when we have good compression?

"One approach to achieving XML compression is to adopt a format that is designed for binary formats from the start. The leading candidate is ISO/ITU ASN.1, a data transmission standard that predates XML. ASN.1 is being updated with several XML-related capabilities that allow XML formats to be reformulated into specialized forms such as ASN.1 Packed Encoding Rules, which define a very compact binary encoding. OASIS UBL is an example of an XML initiative that has taken the ASN.1 approach to XML data compression." <full article>

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