OASIS

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards. Members themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web services, XML conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing, topic maps, and interoperability within and between marketplaces.

OASIS has its home page at http://www.oasis-open.org.

A number of XML and Web services-specific security standards are being developed at OASIS: WS Security, SAML and XACML are some of the prominent ones.