> ebXML Initiative Releases First Technical Specifications for
> Public Comment
>
> USA, March 2000--The first ebXML Initiative Technical
> Specifications has
> been released for public comment. The ebXML Requirements
> Specification is
> available for download from the ebXML web site at
> http://www.ebxml.org.
>
> This ebXML Requirements Specification represents the work of the ebXML
> Requirements Project Team. It defines ebXML and the ebXML effort,
> articulates overall business requirements for ebXML, and
> defines specific
> technical infrastructure requirements that will be addressed
> by the various
> ebXML Project Teams in preparing their deliverables. The
> document includes
> general guiding principles for the development of other ebXML
> Technical
> Specifications. Major requirements identified in the
> specification include:
>
> � general Business Requirements which relate to the need
> for a single
> consistent approach to use XML;
> � the need to support both vertical and horizontal
> solutions regardless of
> the user's level of sophistication;
> � the need to support a range of basic, low cost
> solutions for Small or
> Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as well as complex solutions
> appropriate to large
> enterprises;
> � a general specification for developing XML-based schematas;
> � the need for globalized solutions that will accommodate
> national and
> international process requirements;
> � completely open accessibility, enabled by a registry
> and repository;
> � the need for an architecture that will ensure and maximize
> interoperability by supporting common business process,
> common semantics, a
> common vocabulary and common character encoding;
> � consistent transport, routing and packaging
> methodologies to ensure secure
> sending and receiving of messages over the Internet; and
> � digital signature and other security related capabilities.
>
> The specification is available for the full ebXML Work Group and all
> interested parties in the general public. Comments should be
> emailed as
> plain text in the body of the mail message or as an attachment to Mike
> Rawlins, ebXML Requirements Project Team Leader at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
> Mark Crawford, ebXML Requirements Project Team Editor at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] The review period closes 27 March 2000. The
> specification will undergo a second cycle of revision and
> review prior to
> the expected final approval at the May ebXML meeting in Brussels.
>
> The ebXML vision is to create a single global XML framework
> solution. It is
> a joint effort of the United Nation/CEFACT organization and OASIS.
> Participants represent 14 countries, 83 companies, government
> agencies and
> several national and international standards organizations.
> More than 500
> people around the world participate via Internet mailing lists.
>
> Following the public comment period, the final Requirements
> Specifications
> will be approved by the full ebXML Plenary during its meeting
> in Brussels
> 8-12 May 2000. Full details about the ebXML Initiative, its
> project teams
> and meetings is at http://www.ebxml.org. Technical
> Specifications will be
> available for download from the ebXML web site as they are released.
>
> About ebXML
> ebXML (www.ebXML.org) is an International Initiative established by
> UN/CEFACT and OASIS in late 1999 with a mandate to undertake
> a 15-18 month
> program of work to research and identify the technical basis
> upon which the
> global implementation of XML (Extensible Markup Language) can be
> standardized. The goal is to provide an open technical
> specification to
> enable XML to be utilized in a consistent and uniform manner for the
> exchange of electronic business data in application-to-application,
> application-to-person and person-to-application environments.
>
> About UN/CEFACT
> UN/CEFACT (www.uncefact.org) is the United Nations body whose
> mandate covers
> worldwide policy and technical development in the area of
> trade facilitation
> and electronic business. Headquartered in Geneva, it has developed and
> promoted many tools for the facilitation of global business processes
> including UN/EDIFACT, the international EDI standard. Its current work
> programme includes such topics as Simpl-edi and Object
> Oriented EDI and it
> strongly supports the development and implementation of open,
> interoperable
> global standards and specifications for electronic business.
>
> About OASIS
> OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) is a non-profit,
> international consortium
> dedicated solely to product-independent data and content interchange.
> Focusing on product interoperability, OASIS embraces the
> complete spectrum
> of structured information standards including XML, SGML and CGM. OASIS
> sponsors include Adobe Systems, Aerospatiale, AND-USA,
> Arbortext, Bentley
> Systems, Boeing, Bowstreet, Chrystal Software, Cohesia, Commerce One,
> CommerceNet, CompTIA, Corel, DataChannel, DMSi, Documentum, Dun &
> Bradstreet, eCredit.com, Enigma, eXcelon, Extricity Software,
> GCA, Health
> Level Seven, IBM, InformIT, Informix, InterCAP, Interleaf, Interwoven,
> ISOGEN, ITEDO, JetForm, Keyfile, Microsoft, NextPage, NII Enterprise
> Promotion Association, Nimble.com, NIST, Object Management
> Group (OMG), Open
> Applications Group, Oracle, Pick Systems, ProNet Technology
> Partners, Reed
> Technology, Reuters, Sabre, Sequoia Software, SoftQuad,
> Software AG, STEP,
> StreamServe, Sun Microsystems, Synthbank, Wavo, Webb
> Interactive Services,
> Whitehill Technologies, Xerox, XMLSolutions and XyEnterprise.
>
> For More Information Contact:
>
> Carol Geyer
> Media Relations Consultant, OASIS
> +1.941.926.2322,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> or
>
> Hans Hansell,
> Head UN/CEFACT Secretariat
> +41 22 917 2457
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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