Darek Wierzbicki, of the National Bank of Poland, asked "if any talks or
suggestions are being considered about implementing XML/EDI [in] banking
communication, I mean improving UN/EDIFACT banking messages."
The European banks have already made a considerable investment
implementing the EDIFACT financial EDI messages. What would be so
compelling about a switch now to XML?
Take a look at a Technical Report entitled "Use of EDIFACT by the
banking industry in Europe" (October 1999), available at the European
Committee for Banking Standards, at
http://www.ecbs.org/downloadtc2.html. At a minimum, you may find
contacts mentioned in the report, or at the ECBS, for informed opinions
on where XML will be used within European banking.
I'm certainly not telling you to forget about XML; instead keep an eye
on ebXML, or Electronic Business XML, at http://www.ebxml.org/.
Frankly, ebXML is the best opportunity for all the players, including
the major e-commerce initiatives, to come together under one umbrella
to devise one, global, consistent and interoperable framework for
business messaging. Major American and European banks and banking
initiatives, like NACHA and S.W.I.F.T., are participants in the ebXML
process.
The case for ebXML is so compelling that at the Denver X12 Trimester
Meeting this month, all attention was paid to ebXML. The UN/EDIFACT
Working Group has already emphatically endorsed ebXML; see the UN/CEFACT
Press Release from December 9th - "UN/CEFACT Endorses ebXML Initiative,
Puts Its Own XML Programme on Hold", at http://www.unece.org/cefact/.
Likewise, it's expected the ASC X12 Steering Committee will put all X12
XML efforts firmly in sync with ebXML; thereby avoiding dissipating
scarce X12 energy and attention with other XML distractions where
everyone goes off in all directions building an XML Tower of Babel.
Expect the first deliverable from the ebXML Initiative to be a "Grand
Unified" technical specification on Transport, Packaging and Routing.
William J. Kammerer
FORESIGHT Corp.
4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy.
Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305
(614) 791-1600
Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/
"Commerce for a New World"
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