Long-Awaited E-Business XML Specs May Spur Online Business

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

"Long-Awaited E-Business XML Specs May Spur Online Business," by Wes
Rishel (24 May 2001), Gartner Note Number:  FT-13-7475. Summary: "If
made into standards adopted by the industry, newly issued e-business XML
(ebXML) specifications will help enterprises to secure business
transactions over the Internet as well as to discover services and
metadata."

   The ebXML secure messaging service, however, can have an
   immediate impact. It fills a gap created by the inability of
   the Internet Engineering Task Force to bring its Electronic
   Data Interchange-Internet Integration (i.e., EDIINT)
   specifications to fruition. Enterprises can implement the
   secure messaging service quickly and with only minor
   dependence on other ebXML specifications. Its adoption will
   complete the electronic business infrastructure that Gartner
   calls the "digital dial tone." Enterprises should exert
   influence on vendors to implement this specification and
   establish it as an official OASIS standard.

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William J. Kammerer
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