RE: ebXML in W3C? and OASIS Business Transaction group

[tony.am.fletcher@bt.com]

Dear All,

submit BPSS to W3C?

Seems rather funny to me.  UN/CEFACT is an arm of the United Nations and you
can't get much more international than that, can you?  For all the good work
that it has done, at the end of the day W3C is a US based not-for-profit
organisation.  I agree however that there is a practical challenge for
UN/CEFACT to produce output that commands the status at least that accorded
to W3C outputs.  I also agree with a perception mentioned below that the
W3C, up till now at least, has been seen as tackling the more the syntax
issues, whereas OASIS and other organisations have tackled the application
of those syntaxes.  The messaging (protocol) area is clearly a grey one
where W3C may have a role to play.  However, I would have thought that in
the business process area UN/CEFACT and OASIS should be able to stand-alone
under the banner of ebXML.

Talking of OASIS, I noticed with concern, the post from James Bryce Clark
that indicated that OASIS has started up its own new TC on business
transactions.  I would appreciate it if someone would clarify rationale
behind this, else I hope that OASIS will immediately close this group and
direct the participants to the ebXML business process group instead.  If
there is not a clear statement or swift action from OASIS people will wonder
what the value of the MoU is.

Best Regards Tony

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-----Original Message-----
From: Krishna Sankar [mailto:ksankar@cisco.com]
Sent: 03 July 2001 23:31
To: ebxml-bp@lists.ebxml.org
Subject: RE: ebXML in W3C? (was) Re: 2 July BP meeting notes and 16 July
BP meeting notice


Hi all,

	From what I know and hear and talk, W3C is more fundamental in
nature and
OASIS is more "application" oriented. XML, Encryption, DSIG,.. all fit in
the W3C bucket. But things like registry, business process, ebXML fit in the
OASIS bucket. Of course, there are always exceptions.

	IMHO, OASIS should be arbitrator on things like WSFL, registries,
... And
like James pointed out, OASIS should establish a relationship/precedence
work with W3C. And yes, it would be a shame if ebXML ends up as preliminary
work/science projects towards other standards which cannibalize and nibble
ebXML away :-(

	just my 1c

cheers