The OASIS Election and Voter Services TC [1] members have recently
approved a Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this
specification for 30-day public review:
Election Markup Language (EML) Specification Version 7.0
Committee Specification Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01
04 July 2011
Specification Overview:
EML is a standard for the structured interchange among hardware, software,
and service providers who engage in any aspect of providing election or voter
services to public or private organizations.
The changes from EML v6.0 that this new version introduces are as follows:
* updates applied to match requirements for the USA's UOCAVA (Uniform and
Overseas Citizens Assistance in Voting Act) application;
* updates applied to match new requirements from the Australia Election
Commission;
* update to the dSig schema for latest W3C 2002/2008 specification;
* update external reference from xNAL v3.0 to xNAL v4.0;
* new Conformance criteria.
TC Description:
The E&VS Techncial Committee has worked very closely with the IEEE P1622
committee over this new release and aligning the needs of the USA's UOCAVA
(Uniform and Overseas Citizens Assistance in Voting Act) application. We will
continue to work with them, and any other jurisdiction, to ensure EML meets
the global needs of e-enabled elections.
Public Review Period:
The public review starts today, 18 August 2011 and ends 14 September
2011.
This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from
potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the
sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.
URIs:
The prose specification document and related files are available here:
PDF (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/election/eml/v7.0/csprd01/eml-v7.0-csprd01.pdf
HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/election/eml/v7.0/csprd01/eml-v7.0-csprd01.html
Editable source:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/election/eml/v7.0/csprd01/eml-v7.0-csprd01.doc
Other specification artifacts:
This prose specification is one component of a Work Product which also
includes:
XML schemas:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/election/eml/v7.0/csprd01/Schemas/
http://docs.oasis-open.org/election/eml/v7.0/csprd01/external/
XML Dictionary and spreadsheet artifacts:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/election/eml/v7.0/csprd01/dictionary/
ZIP distribution file (complete):
For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose
specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download
the ZIP file here:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/election/eml/v7.0/csprd01/eml-v7.0-csprd01.zip
Additional information about the specification and the OASIS Election and
Voter Services TC may be found at the TC's public home page:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election/
Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the
OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located via the button labeled "Send A
Comment" at the top of the TC public home, or directly at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=electionlis
Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of
this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/election-services-comment/
All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License,
which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at
least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public
review of Election Markup Language (EML) Specification Version 7.0, we call
your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [2] applicable especially [3] to the
work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar
with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and
availability of a member's patent, copyright, trademark and license rights
that read on an approved OASIS specification. OASIS invites any persons who
know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the
implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be
posted to the notice page for this TC's work.
========== Additional references:
[1] OASIS Election and Voter Services TC
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election/
[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php
[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election/ipr.php
http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#10.2
RF on Limited Terms
Best Regards,
/chet
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Chet Ensign
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