[Debian-OASIS] Fwd: Vote Today - AVDL Industry Standard Approaches Final Approval

[Mark Johnson]

----- Forwarded message from Jan Bialkowski <jan@netcontinuum.com> -----
    Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 18:59:10 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Jan Bialkowski <jan@netcontinuum.com>
Reply-To: Jan Bialkowski <Jan_Bialkowski_tsrstg@postsnet.com>
 Subject: Vote Today - AVDL Industry Standard Approaches Final Approval
      To: mrj@gluck.debian.org

Dear Mark:

Voting is now open at OASIS for an important new XML standard designed to help
end-users and vendors concerned about application security. The voting period is
brief, so please take the time to review the materials and cast your vote TODAY.
Below is a brief description of the initiative and instructions on how to vote.

A key XML standard called Application Vulnerability Description Language(AVDL)
is currently being developed by the OASIS international standards consortium to
enable interoperability between application security products. AVDL defines
parameters and values needed for security products like application firewalls,
application vulnerability scanners, patch management systems and vulnerability
management consoles to communicate with one another throughout all stages of the
application lifecycle. Growing vendor adoption of AVDL gives security
professionals far more freedom and flexibility in managing application security
risk and securing critical resources.

In order to complete this standard which will benefit the entire application
development and security community, your help is needed. Voting is now open for
the AVDL standard but will close on Monday, May 31st at midnight EST (just 1
week away)! Please take a moment to visit OASIS and vote. To cast your ballot,
go to the voting group page at
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/voting/ and select the link for
Open Ballots. 

For more information on the voting process please visit
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php

As founding members of this initiative, NetContinuum and SPI Dynamics greatly
appreciate your support of the AVDL standard in order to help address the
growing business problem of how companies manage ongoing application security
risk on a day-to-day basis. For more information on AVDL, please visit
http://www.avdl.org

Sincerely,

Jan Bialkowski 
Co-Chair AVDL
Chief Technology Officer 
NetContinuum, Inc.
408-961-5603            

Kevin Heineman
Co-Chair AVDL
Vice President of Professional Services and Engineering
SPI Dynamics, Inc.
678-781-4830

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To contact us:

NetContinuum, Inc.
1705 Wyatt Drive
Santa Clara, CA  95054
408-961-5600

SPI Dynamics
115 Perimeter Center Place, N.E.
Suite 270
Atlanta, GA 30346
678-781-4800

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