The developers of the ebXML
Schema (BPSS) are working to live up to their global billing by forming a
new technical committee of the OASIS international standards consortium.
The first order of business of the newly-formed OASIS ebXML Business
Process (BP) technical committee, members said, is to further define the
royalty-free ebXML BPSS model. The standards work for exchanging data online
is geared for binary and multiparty business collaborations both within and
between enterprises, said OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of
Structured Information Standards).
ebXML BPSS is often described as a subset among a myriad of standards and
protocols being hammered out by standards groups to create specifications for swapping data and conducting business
over the Internet.
The ebXML protocol is geared for open, royalty-free standards for
business process collaboration, core data components, collaboration protocol
agreements, messaging, and registries and repositories.
Companies already using the ebXML for documents and information exchange
include General Motors, the US Center for Disease Control, the Pan Asia
e-Trade Alliance and TransCanada Pipelines.
In addition, RosettaNet said it
has formally adopted ebXML BPSS as a mechanism for expressing business
collaborations involving RosettaNet PIPs. Meanwhile, government agencies
around the world are increasingly recommending the use of ebXML.
The ebXML BP committee is expected to support the exchange of standards-based business
process definitions. In addition, the work of the ebXML BP committee will enable legally
enforceable, easily manageable, and fully traceable collaborations, said
Dale Moberg of Cyclone Commerce, convenor and proposed co-chair of the OASIS
ebXML BP technical committee.