Re: Ebxml, Biztalk et al

["William J. Kammerer" <wkammerer@foresightcorp.com>]

Steven Livingstone confirms that he's actually interested in both the
transport layer mechanics and the big picture of ebXML.

Some additional reading material for Steven will be found among the
Conference Proceedings of XML Europe 2000 at
http://www.gca.org/papers/xmleurope2000/.  There are lots of papers, but
I especially recommend "XML schema design for business-to-business
e-commerce," by ebXML's own Arofan Gregory, of Commerce One, at
http://www.gca.org/papers/xmleurope2000/papers/s21-01.html.  Also:
"Effective strategies for integrating businesses on the Net using XML,"
by David Burdett, also of ebXML and Commerce One, at
http://www.gca.org/papers/xmleurope2000/papers/s10-01.html.  The latter
is mostly an ad for Commerce One and its warez (something I would do for
FORESIGHT - the World's leading provider of EDI/EC productivity tools
and a dominant player in the realm of Web-EC - in a far more discreet
manner), but brings up interesting points, nonetheless.

There are two papers on Registries & repositories, one for each of
BizTalk and ebXML.  The latter is co-authored by ebXML Marketing,
Awareness and Education maven Simon Nicholson, of Sun.  See
http://www.gca.org/papers/xmleurope2000/rel/sess11.html.  One of the
Vertical Industries active in ebXML is the travel biz represented by the
OpenTravel Alliance;  see "How the OpenTravel Alliance is agreeing an
XML vocabulary," by Nick Lanyon, at
http://www.gca.org/papers/xmleurope2000/papers/s19-02.html.

William J. Kammerer
FORESIGHT Corp.
4950 Blazer Memorial Pkwy.
Dublin, OH USA 43017-3305
+1 614 791-1600

Visit FORESIGHT Corp. at http://www.foresightcorp.com/
"Commerce for a New World"