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Subject: IBM BI-ICS
This morning at the XML.gov monthly meeting[1] I saw a presentation given by Scott Hinkleman of IBM on IBM's new "Business Integration - Information Conformance Standards (BI-ICS)" specification[2]. I found it quite interesting, and thought I'd provide a few comments here. Although not available as of this e-mail, the presentation should be available at the XML.gov site[3] within the next few days, if IBM does make it available. BI-ICS essentially lives at what IBM calls the "Business Level" of the Web Services stack, above "Service Composition" (where WS BPEL, WS-Transaction, etc. live). I know - it sounds like the "ebXML area" of the stack, so we might very well expect some overlap in this and future specs - as BI-ICS is apparently one of 4 planned "specification areas" for this "framework" (my own use of this term) which is as of yet unnamed. Another area will be "Business Payload Composition", which - Scott Hinkleman stated - "has its roots in ebXML Core Components", and specifies a "context-driven approach" to payload composition (overlaps, anyone?). Scott did, however, state that BI-ICS is "not IBM's answer to OASIS CAM". IBM is soliciting interest in advancing BI-ICS to an open standards consortium. Let the discussions begin... Kind Regards, Joe [1] http://xml.gov/agenda/20040317.htm [2] http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-02-02-a.html [3] http://xml.gov/presentations.asp
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