Samvera Advances Community-Sourced Repository Solutions as OASIS Foundation-as-a-Service Partner

15 June 2021 – OASIS Open, the international open source and open standards consortium, and Samvera, an international open source community with best in class digital asset management solutions, are pleased to announce their Foundation-as-a-Service partnership. The program streamlines the process of forming and running foundations by letting groups operate independently while enjoying the benefits of the OASIS nonprofit corporate structure and expertise.

A vibrant community of information and technology professionals, Samvera’s suite of repository software tools offers flexible and rich user interfaces tailored to distinct content types on top of a robust back end, and can enable a wide range of repository solutions for the digital collections held by libraries, archives, museums, and other organizations.

“There is unanimous support in the Samvera Community for this transition to OASIS Open’s Foundation as a Service,” said Rosalyn Metz, Associate Dean of Library Technology and Digital Strategies at Emory University Libraries and Samvera Board Chair. “Being aligned with OASIS, while maintaining Samvera’s well established governance structure and sovereignty, gives us the best of both worlds. We believe this partnership will ensure our autonomy and help promote our sustainability.”

“We are excited to welcome Samvera to the OASIS community,” said Guy Martin, OASIS Executive Director. “This partnership was a natural fit for both of our organizations, as we share the values of inclusivity, openness, and transparency. We look forward to providing Samvera with administration & governance support so that they can continue to focus on delivering value to their users and helping their open source community thrive.”

From its beginning in 2008, Samvera (originally called Hydra) set out to build a community to support and sustain its software, which is free and open source. The Samvera Community creates sustainable solutions using a common infrastructure within which there is flexibility to tailor solutions to local demands and workflow. Its partners include institutions, service providers, and other organizations that have formally committed to contributing to the Samvera Community.

“We are excited to partner with OASIS and have already benefited from the expertise of their program staff,” said Heather Greer Klein, Samvera Community Manager. “Foundation-as-a-Service is an excellent fit for the Samvera Community, and I believe this model offers a new approach to sustainable stewardship of open technologies that we’ve not seen before in the scholarly and cultural heritage ecosystem.”

OASIS welcomes inquiries from groups seeking to form or transition existing open source Foundations using the Foundation-as-a-Service Program.

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OriginBX Alliance Forms at OASIS Open to Define Digital Standards for Global Tax and Trade Compliance

2 June 2021–OASIS Open announced the formation of OriginBX OASIS, an international movement to advance open source product and trade data standards for facilitating digital tax and trade attestations. The OriginBX OASIS message sets will be interoperable among legacy systems and blockchain platforms.

OriginBX OASIS is led by a global alliance of organizations representing leaders from the ICC as well as technology, ecommerce, and customs brokerage sectors.  Representation from the apparel and footwear, retail, automotive, life sciences, energy, and chemical industries is also planned.  

OriginBX OASIS is governed and supported by the OASIS Open nonprofit consortium, home of Ethereum OASIS, the Baseline Protocol, SAML, UBL, ebXML, and many other globally recognized standards. Everyone is invited to participate technically in the open source community that will be defining OriginBX OASIS standards. 

“With the recent G7 announcement on digital trade standards and more stringent country of origin legislation looming, the timing for OriginBX OASIS couldn’t be better. Digital standards for product attributes will radically simplify the determination, record keeping and verification of trade attestations made to customs authorities,” explained Todd R. Smith of KYG.Trade, chair of the OriginBX OASIS Governing Board. “Providing and obtaining information about a good via email and attachments to determine and support HTS code, country of origin, free trade agreement, forced labor, traceability, sustainability and ESG attestations takes weeks, is archaic, redundant and costly.  All parties in the trade compliance, SESG, and enforcement ecosystem will use OriginBX OASIS digital standards to quickly and efficiently obtain information on the raw materials and components of manufactured goods involving complex multi-tier supply chains.”

“OriginBX is building critical solutions to solve challenges in global trade at a time when streamlined exchange of goods is more important than ever,” said Guy Martin, Executive Director of OASIS Open. “The diversity of the stakeholders involved in this effort attests to the value of our Open Projects model which provides neutral and transparent governance that enables strong collaboration.  We are extremely pleased to partner with the OriginBX community in this effort.”

Support for OriginBX OASIS 

Accenture

“Streamlining global trade compliance has emerged as a compelling use case for blockchain-enabled transformation. Businesses in different Industries, however, can only tap into this value by first establishing standards by which we all classify and certify goods and services.  We are excited to join OriginBX and the other leading companies in this consortium to do just that, to create a foundation on which tomorrow’s multiparty systems can simplify and restructure the way our clients think about this key process.”

– Melanie Cutlan, Blockchain and Multi-Party Systems Co-Lead, Accenture

CompTIA

“CompTIA is proud to be a sponsor and founding member of the OriginBX OASIS Open Project. Data standards for tax and trade attestations will significantly contribute to improving global trade facilitation for all industry sectors. We hope to leverage the work of our CompTIA Blockchain Industry Advisory Council to support the project efforts.”

 – Ken Montgomery, Vice President, International Trade Regulation & Compliance, Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA)

GTPA

 “The more sophisticated Global Supply Chains become, and the more ensuring integrity becomes vital to protect the reputation of a brand or prevent the disruption of a Global Supply Chain, the more difficult it becomes for SMEs to comply with the myriad of existing integrity related regulations and processes required to participate in supply chains. As the GTPA looks to collaborate on the development of global standards that enable integrity in Global Supply Chains to which both large and small companies can adhere, we are delighted to support OriginBX from the perspective of collaborating on solutions that will also support trade facilitation digitisation.”

– Lisa McAuley, CEO, GTPA

International Chamber of Commerce

“Working with OASIS, the organization that’s home to the Universal Business Language (UBL) standard, on a journey to develop and promote standardised message sets that will practically enable the business community to integrate once, leverage everywhere, will help create a step change in this space.”

 – Oswald Kuyler, Managing Director DSI, International Chamber of Commerce

Inveniam

“Contributing to a world of transparent and free, frictionless trade is the end goal for the OriginBX consortium. Our ability to credential data builds trust between global trading partners and regulatory agencies and facilitates the efforts of OriginBX to contain the cost of trade and increase the movement of goods around the world, whether in single shipments or container-loads.”

-Kerry Rudy, President, Inveniam 

Origin Experts Group

“In the real world determining and documenting origin compliance can be complex, challenging and costly. The resulting origin statements and supporting information must be efficiently shared with a variety of origin stakeholders. The Origin Experts Group therefore enthusiastically supports this project, as clear standards will facilitate exchange of the information needed to substantiate origin claims, connecting online claims with offline reality.”

-Brian Rankin Staples, Founding Director, Origin Experts Group

Skuchain, Inc.

“Interoperability between different blockchain based global trade networks needs standards. We are pleased to be a founding member of the OriginBX alliance in making this a reality. Being able to benefit from the group’s deep expertise with standards such as ebXML, baseline protocol and Ethereum amongst others would be a great benefit.”

-Srinivasan Sriram, Founder & CEO, Skuchain, Inc.

About OriginBX OASIS

OriginBX OASIS supports trade specific digital product data open standards, SDKs, and APIs.  In particular, by reducing complexity and the cost of complying with preferential and non-preferential country of origin determinations, OriginBX OASIS seeks to increase the utilization of free trade agreements to achieve desired public policy outcomes. We work closely with global non-profit initiatives and alliances to promote the WTO trade facilitation agreement and the UN’s sustainable development goals.  OriginBX OASIS is governed and supported as an OASIS Open Project. OriginBX OASIS Founding Sponsors include Accenture, Amazon, CompTIA, the Global Trade Professionals Association (GTPA), Inveniam, KYG.Trade, Origin Experts, Skuchain, Thomson Reuters, and others.

www.originbx-oasis.org

About OASIS Open

One of the most respected, nonprofit open source and open standards bodies in the world, OASIS advances the fair, transparent development of open source software and standards through the power of global collaboration and community. Many OASIS standards go on to be ratified by de jure bodies and referenced in international policies and government procurement.

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Ethereum OASIS Receives $100K Incentive Funding for Baseline Protocol Projects

10 March 2021 – Today, the Baseline Protocol, part of the Ethereum OASIS Open Project and in partnership with Open Source Collective, announced that it has received a grant of $100,000 from the Ethereum Foundation to be used for the purpose of encouraging and accelerating baseline protocol R&D and enablement efforts. This comes on the first anniversary of the community’s formation.

Launched in March of 2020, the Baseline Protocol uses advances in peer-to-peer messaging, zero-knowledge cryptography, and blockchain technology to coordinate complex, confidential workflows between enterprises without moving company data out of traditional systems of record.  Today, hundreds of companies and thousands of individuals are actively participating in the initiative, which coordinates with the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.  For more information go to baseline-protocol.org.

“2021 is stacking up to be a breakout year for Enterprise blockchain usage with more and more projects landing on the public Mainnet,” said Dan Shaw of the Ethereum Foundation. “Baseline has been a key driver of this, since the protocol enables private collaboration between enterprises without putting any sensitive data on-chain.”

The Baseline Protocol community conducts steering committee meetings every two weeks. Starting in April 2021, these meetings will include a segment to hear proposals for projects seeking funding from the grant pool. Each month, the Technical Steering Committee will allocate a portion of the total grant to selected projects. Allocations are managed by the Open Source Collective. These projects can include technical work such as contributions to open source code and also can include work to contribute enablement content, documentation and outreach programs. For more information on proposing projects for grants and bounties, go here.

It is hoped that this grant will attract other organizations to contribute additional funding to the effort. Organizations interested in contributing can do so here.

Support for Baseline Protocol

Ethereum OASIS is sponsored by Accenture, Chainlink, ConsenSys, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, Ethereum Foundation, EY, Morpheus.Network, Nethermind, Provide, Splunk, and Unibright, with many others contributing significant development and intellectual capital.

About Ethereum OASIS

Founded by the Ethereum Foundation, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, and ConsenSys. It is sponsored by a growing list of leading organizations, including Accenture, Chainlink, EY, Morpheus Network, Nethermind, Provide, Splunk and Unibright.  Ethereum OASIS is an OASIS Open Project that provides a neutral forum for supporting open source projects and specifications that advance interoperability for systems worldwide. The Ethereum OASIS community works to develop clear, open standards, first-rate documentation, and shared test suites that facilitate new features and enhancements for Ethereum. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the Baseline Protocol, and suggestions for new Ethereum OASIS projects are encouraged. For more information go to: https://github.com/ethereum-oasis.

About Open Source Collective

Open Source Collective is a registered 501(c)(6) nonprofit that serves as fiscal sponsor to over 2000 open source projects. The Open Source Collective team are experts in supporting the open source ecosystem and being a bridge between developers, funders, and users of open source. They work with individual and large corporate partners to provide open source communities authentic and equitable access to capital. For more information about project sponsorship and sponsorship of open source development, go to https://www.oscollective.org.

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OASIS Open Approves SMP v2.0 Standard for Connecting Trading Partners in a 4-Corner Network

2 March 2021 — OASIS Open, the global open standards and open source consortium, announced that its members have approved Service Metadata Publishing (SMP) v2.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. The SMP framework facilitates dynamic discovery and capability matching between participants in a business community and enables addressing and routing in an interoperable and secure network to connect trading partners.

SMP v2.0 describes a specification for publishing service metadata within a 4-corner network, where entities exchange business documents through intermediary gateway services, sometimes called “Access Points.” To successfully send a business document in a 4-corner network, the sending entity must be able to discover critical metadata about the receiving entity, such as which types of documents the trading partner can receive and process automatically and which transport protocols they support. Trading partners make this metadata available to each other in the network, depending on the business processes they implement, always through an SMP service.

“The SMP is a relatively simple, yet powerful specification for registering endpoint capabilities in an eDelivery network that supports many-to-many transactions,” said Professor Dr. Andriana Prentza of the University of Piraeus and member of the OASIS Open Europe Foundation Board of Directors. “It has been proven a very valuable building block in application domains such as eInvoicing and the wider supply chain integration, which require distributed, dynamic discovery and portable registration of end user capabilities.”

“SMP was developed by the OASIS Business Document Exchange TC as part of its mandate to define an open standards framework to support public eProcurement and eInvoicing,” said Kenneth Bengtsson, Chair of the BDXR Technical Committee. “This specification describes the request/response exchanges between a Service Metadata Publisher and a client wishing to discover endpoint information. Once connected, businesses and government agencies can easily and safely reach any other partner on the network. This makes trading partner onboarding a significantly smoother process, and removes a lot of friction from day to day electronic trade.” 

The international nonprofit association OpenPEPPOL includes the SMP service as a mandatory building block in the architecture of the Peppol Network. Buyers and sellers can publish their receiving capabilities, which facilitate communication in various stages of electronic procurement and other business processes between public and private entities, in a total of 32 countries across the globe.

IBM
“As a longtime supporter of both open source and open standards, IBM is proud to support the OASIS BDXR TC to help achieve true frictionless global electronic trade. IBM Sterling’s ongoing contributions to supply chain and e-invoicing technologies like the SMP are instrumental to ensure the needs of our clients and their trading business partners are considered as industry and regulatory standards are developed.”

— Joe Berti, VP, AI Applications, IBM

Additional Information
OASIS Business Document Exchange Technical Committee

About OASIS

OASIS Open, one of the most respected member-driven standards bodies in the world, is where individuals, organizations, and governments come together to solve technical challenges through open collaboration. OASIS offers projects – including open source projects – a path to standardization and de jure approval for reference in international policy and procurement. OASIS has a broad technical agenda encompassing eProcurement, cybersecurity, blockchain, privacy, cryptography, cloud computing, IoT – any initiative for developing code, APIs, specifications or reference implementations can find a home at OASIS.

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OASIS Open Establishes European Foundation to Advance Open Collaboration Opportunities

Utrecht, The Netherlands; 20 January 2021 – OASIS Open, the international open source and open standards consortium, is pleased to announce the launch of the OASIS Open Europe Foundation (https://www.oasis-open.eu). The foundation provides a strong and dedicated European focus in setting standards for open collaboration, and allows OASIS to provide long-term sustainability for European Union research projects.

“The OASIS Open Europe Foundation gives us a unique opportunity to work with the European Union and EU Member States to advance open source and standards projects,” said Dr. Martin Chapman of Oracle, who chairs the OASIS Open Europe Foundation. “We will leverage the global experience of OASIS Open to provide a regional focus for the OASIS community and engage in European-specific activities that promote the use of open technologies.”

“We are particularly excited by the diverse group of experts who will be providing leadership on the foundation’s Board of Directors,” said Dr. Carol Cosgrove-Sacks, Senior Advisor, International Standards Policy at OASIS. “They represent a remarkable range of talent from industry and academia with strong expertise in ICT standards, open source projects, innovation, research, and development, along with perspectives in new areas for open technologies such as AI and data.”

The OASIS Open Europe Foundation’s Board of Directors will include:

  • Laetitia Cailleteau of Accenture (France)
  • Martin Chapman of Oracle (Ireland)
  • Eva Coscia of R2M Solution (Italy)
  • Gershon Janssen, Independent Consultant (Netherlands)
  • Janna Lingenfelder of IBM (Germany)
  • Guy Martin of OASIS Open (United States)
  • Andriana Prentza of the University of Piraeus (Greece)

Building on OASIS Open’s European Presence

OASIS Open has a long history of advancing open source and open standards in Europe. OASIS standards and specifications have been used in very large, highly visible initiatives, including Europe’s most widely used standard for electronic invoices, and serve as the basis of the European Commission’s eDelivery building block that is used in some of the world’s largest international data exchanges.

OASIS has a well-established place on the EU’s high-level advisory committee, the Multi-Stakeholder Platform for EU ICT Standardisation (MSP). OASIS standards feature in the Rolling Plan for ICT standardisation and are routinely used in both the private and public sector throughout Europe.

Open source has become increasingly important as a complement or alternative to traditional standardisation. The Open Document Format for Office Applications was originally developed in Europe as a file format of open source office software and subsequently standardized at OASIS Open and in ISO. Today, OASIS Open is hosting open source work in areas like cybersecurity and blockchain. The OASIS Open Europe Foundation aims to support open source initiatives that prefer to operate in Europe with European stakeholders under EU law.

Open data is an emerging area of interest in the OASIS Open community, especially in Europe, due to Europe’s lead in areas such as data protection and its legislation. Like open standards, open data is a key contributor to the Digital Single Market that will benefit from new products and services based on data. Data is also a critical asset for future development of AI. The OASIS Open Europe Foundation will support the OASIS Open community as a global player in the international data space area, leveraging its reputation in areas of security and privacy.

About OASIS Open

One of the most respected, member-driven standards bodies in the world, OASIS offers projects—including open source projects—a path to standardisation and de jure approval for reference in international policy and procurement. OASIS members include major multinational companies, SMEs, government agencies, universities, research institutions, consulting groups, and individuals.

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Baseline Protocol Commitment Manager Brings Hyperledger Besu, Infura & Public Blockchain Clients to Enterprise Workflows

9 December 2020 – Today, the Baseline Protocol, part of the Ethereum OASIS open source initiative, published a new key component called the Commitment Manager. This component makes it easy for developers to switch between accessing private and public blockchains using different kinds of clients and gateways. Today, the release includes integrations for Hyperledger Besu and Infura.

Launched in March of this year, the Baseline Protocol uses advances in peer-to-peer messaging, zero-knowledge cryptography and blockchain technology to coordinate complex, confidential workflows between enterprises without moving company data out of traditional systems of record.  Today, over 800 companies and individuals are actively participating in the initiative, which coordinates with the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.  

Several proofs of concept have been released to showcase how to ‘baseline’ systems such as SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Google Sheets and Salesforce. Recently, major brands have announced projects using the protocol, and more are known to be in private development.

Today’s release of Commitment Manager makes switching between blockchain clients such as Besu, Quorum, Nethermind or Geth a straightforward process. For example, a group of companies can start baselining using a private-permissioned instance of Hyperledger Besu in order to test and stage a new baselined Workgroup and then switch to the public Ethereum Mainnet via another client or through the Infura service when ready for production deployment. A developer challenge for demonstrating creative uses of the switching function, with a $2,000 bounty, is active on the Gitcoin Baseline Protocol hackathon, running from today to January 6, 2021.  

Today at 12pm US-ET, the development team will host an open walkthrough of the system. 

For more information go to baseline-protocol.org.

Support for Baseline Protocol Commitment Manager

Ethereum OASIS is sponsored by Accenture, Chainlink, ConsenSys, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, Ethereum Foundation, Morpheus.Network, Nethermind, Provide, Splunk, and Unibright, with many others contributing significant development and intellectual capital.

Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger:

“The collaboration between Hyperledger, the EEA and many blockchain protocols is well represented by this latest joint effort between the maintainers of Hyperledger Besu and the Baseline Protocol.”

Joe Lubin, CEO of ConsenSys Inc.:

“The Baseline Protocol is a huge leap forward in bringing secure and private business processes of all types to the Ethereum Mainnet. Today’s release of the Baseline Protocol’s Commitment Manager promises even more flexibility to business processes that rely on different instances or clients by adding support to both Hyperledger Besu and Infura.“

About Ethereum OASIS

Founded by the Ethereum Foundation, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, and ConsenSys, Ethereum OASIS is an OASIS Open Project that provides a neutral forum for supporting open source projects and specifications that advance interoperability for blockchain applications worldwide. The Ethereum OASIS community works to develop clear, open standards, first-rate documentation, and shared test suites that facilitate new features and enhancements for Ethereum. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the Baseline Protocol, and suggestions for new Ethereum OASIS projects are encouraged.

For more information go to: https://github.com/ethereum-oasis/

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Baseline Protocol and SAML Win 2020 Open Cup Awards; OASIS Open Honors Jim Cabral, Jane Ginn, and Bret Jordan

New blockchain initiative from Ethereum OASIS and widely adopted security standard are recognized by international open source and standards community

8 December 2020 — OASIS Open, the international standards and open source consortium, announced the winners of the 2020 Open Cup, which recognizes major accomplishments in our community. The Cup for Outstanding Approved Standard was awarded to the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), an XML-based framework for creating and exchanging security information between online partners. The Cup for Outstanding New Initiative was awarded to the Baseline Protocol, part of the Ethereum OASIS Open Project.

In addition, OASIS named Distinguished Contributors: Jim Cabral of MTG Management Consultants for his work in LegalXML; Jane Ginn of Cyber Threat Intelligence Network for her contributions to the Cyber Threat Intelligence Technical Committee; and Bret Jordan of Broadcom for his contributions to several cybersecurity standards including CACAO, OpenC2, and STIX.

Open Cup Recipients

Named the Outstanding Approved Standard was SAML V2.0 Metadata Interoperability Profile V1.0 and SAML V2.0 Metadata Extensions for Login and Discovery User Interface V1.0.

“The Security Services (SAML) Technical Committee is one of the longest-running at OASIS and its flagship work – SAML V2.0 and the family of specifications around it – continues to be fundamental to authentication and authorization across the internet,” said Chet Ensign, OASIS Chief Technical Community Steward. “SAML is one of the most widely adopted standards used to provide users with secure, single sign-on (SSO) capabilities. Whether you are logging on to your bank account, buying a new book online, or consolidating data from multiple providers, SAML is there to help. We are delighted to recognize the great work of the SAML TC members.”

SAML was chosen from a group of finalists that included:

Chosen as the 2020 Outstanding New Initiative, the Baseline Protocol, part of the Ethereum OASIS Open Project, is an open source initiative that combines advances in cryptography, messaging, and blockchain to deliver secure and private business processes at low cost via the public Ethereum Mainnet.

“Launched in March, this OASIS open source project has attracted nearly a thousand developers to its discussion community and collected hundreds of stars, forks, and new contributors on GitHub,” said Jory Burson, the Program Manager for OASIS Open Projects. “These engagement metrics indicate the excitement developers have, and the possibilities the industry sees, to enable confidential and complex collaboration on the public net without leaving sensitive data on-chain. We’re very proud to support this innovative new project, and we encourage you to check out their latest releases and demos.”

Baseline was chosen from finalists that included:

Distinguished Contributors

Each year, the Distinguished Contributor designation is awarded to a select group of OASIS members who have made significant contributions to the advancement of open standards and/or open source projects.

Jim Cabral of MTG Management Consultants serves as Chair of the LegalXML Electronic Court Filing (ECF) Technical Committee. Jim is a recognized thought leader in the justice and public safety technology community and has devoted countless hours developing the ECF Standard, getting it widely adopted within the legal community. He has been an OASIS member since 2003 and has served as an OASIS Board Member.

Jane Ginn of Cyber Threat Intelligence Network, Inc. serves as Secretary of the OASIS Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) and the Threat Actor Context (TAC) Technical Committees. She joined the CTI TC at its inception more than five years ago, and has contributed hundreds of documents to the CTI document repository. As an ardent supporter of the TC’s mission, Jane’s work has greatly impacted the CTI community.

Broadcom’s Bret Jordan serves as Chair of the Collaborative Automated Course of Action Operations (CACAO) for Cyber Security Technical Committee and is a member of the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) and Open Command and Control (OpenC2) Technical Committees.  Bret’s work as co-chair of the STIX Subcommittee as well as his efforts as document editor and technical contributor helped that group advance. Bret has also served on the OASIS Board of Directors.

About OASIS

One of the most respected member-driven standards bodies in the world, OASIS offers projects – including open source projects – a path to standardization and de jure approval for reference in international policy and procurement. OASIS has a broad technical agenda encompassing cybersecurity, blockchain, privacy, cryptography, cloud computing and IoT – any initiative for developing code, APIs, specifications or reference implementations can find a home at OASIS.

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UN/CEFACT and OASIS Meeting Showcases ebXML for Healthcare and B2B

Boston, MA, USA and Geneva, Switzerland; 8 May 2001 — -The final meeting of the 18-month ebXML initiative, sponsored by UN/CEFACT and OASIS, will feature the most extensive ebXML proof-of-concept yet demonstrated and the first to showcase ebXML’s security specification. In Vienna on 9 May 2001, international standards groups, Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), Health Level Seven (HL7), Open Applications Group (OAG), RosettaNet, SWIFT and EDI X12, will team with 30 vendors from around the world to implement the ebXML specifications and demonstrate how ebXML can be used to meet the needs of electronic business today.

The demonstration will be part of a week-long ebXML meeting, during which participants are expected to ratify the ebXML specifications and begin the next phase of continued development, implementation and maintenance. “For more than a year, software providers and industry groups have put ebXML to the test, implementing the specifications as they were being developed,” noted Klaus-Dieter Naujok of IONA, Chair of ebXML and member of the UN/CEFACT Steering Committee. “Because of these efforts, we are able to deliver ebXML specifications with confidence in their stability and with the support of the industry at-large.”

In Vienna, BEA Systems, Bind Systems, Bowstreet, bTrade.com, Care Data Systems, Commerce One, Contivo, Covisint, Cyclone Commerce, Data Access, Fujitsu, General Electric, IBM, IONA, Intalio, IPNet, Mega, NTT Comm, NTT Data, Samsung SDS, Schemantix, Seeburger, Sterling Commerce, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, Tibco, Viquity, VISA International, webMethods and XML Global will demonstrate ebXML at work in healthcare and B2B. Two end-to-end tracks will use actual payloads and scenarios from AIAG, HL7, OAG, RosettaNet, SWIFT and X12. ebXML in Healthcare The healthcare track of the POC will use HL7 messages and documents as payloads within ebXML transport and routing envelopes.

The demo scenario will begin with a patient visit to a physician’s office. The office will send a registration message pre-admitting the patient to a hospital for testing. At the hospital, the patient will be examined and lab work will be ordered, the order being transmitted via ebXML to a remote lab. The record of the original patient encounter in the physician’s office, plus the registration message, lab order and lab results will be sent to two clinical information portals where the virtual patient record can be collected and accessed. ebXML in B2B The ebXML POC electronic business track simulates a complete end-to-end B2B transaction, using messages from RosettaNet, OAG, EDI X12, SWIFT and ebXML Core Components. ebXML vendors play the roles of buyer, supplier, registry, marketplace, credit authorization agency and financial institution. The scenario begins with the buyer discovering the seller through the ebXML registry. It then highlights a seller catalogue update through the e-marketplace, followed by the buyer’s purchase order request. A request for credit is sent by the e-marketplace to the authorization agency, which responds with an invoice. Following an advance shipment notification, the credit agency transmits messages to the banks of both the buyer and the seller to reflect the completion of the end-to-end business scenario.

“The ability of these 28 vendors to demonstrate ebXML on this scale is a remarkable achievement,” observed Sid Askary of Intalio, ebXML Proof Of Concept Project Team Leader. “Execution of these complex business and healthcare scenarios and interoperability among so many early adopters is a sign of success for ebXML.”

About ebXML ebXML (www.ebXML.org) is an International Initiative established by UN/CEFACT and OASIS in late 1999 with a mandate to undertake an 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 of ebXML is to facilitate open trade between organizations regardless of size by enabling XML to be used in a consistent manner to exchange electronic business data. 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 the international, not-for-profit consortium that advances electronic business by promoting open, collaborative development of interoperability specifications. OASIS sponsors include Accenture, Access360, Adobe Systems, and Data Solutions, Arbortext, Auto-trol, Aventail, Baltimore Technologies, B-Bop Associates, BEA Systems, Bentley Systems, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Bowstreet, Business Logic Corporation, Chrystal Software, Cincom Systems, Cohesia, Commerce One, Critical Path, CrossLogix, DataChannel, Dataloom, Deutsche Post AG, Documentum, EADS Airbus, election.com, empolis, Engage, Enigma, Excelergy, eXcelon, Extricity Software, First Call Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Informix, Infoteria, Innodata, Intel, Interwoven, IPNet Solutions, ITEDO Software, Ivis Group, Jamcracker, Logistics Management Institute, Mediaplex, Mercator Software, Microsoft, Netegrity, NetFish Technologies, Netscape/AOL, NextPage, NII Enterprise Promotion Association, Nimble Technology, NIST, Novell, ObjectSpace, Oblix, OpenNetwork Technologies, Pearson Education, Planet 7 Technologies, Popkin Software, Reuters Limited, SAA Consultants, Sabre, SAP, SeeBeyond, Sequoia Software, Silverstream Software, SoftQuad Software, Software AG, Sterling Commerce, StreamServe, Sun Microsystems, Synth-Bank, Tata Consultancy Services, The Tamalpais Group, Thomas Technology Solution, Tibco, US Defense Information Systems Agency, Virtual Access Networks, Visa International, Wavo, webMethods, Whitehill Technologies, Xerox, XML Global, XMLSolutions and Xyvision Enterprise Solutions.

For more information:
Carol Geyer Director of Communications OASIS
carol.geyer@oasis-open.org

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