Trading Partner Agreement Markup Language

[sutor@us.ibm.com]

As many of you know, IBM offered its tpaML (Trading Partner Agreement
Markup Language)
to OASIS last January. As predicted by some people in this Steering
Committee, most of the
interest in tpaML came from within ebXML as it has obvious connections with
the work going
on in several of the project teams, most notably TRP and BP. After
consultations with many
people within OASIS and ebXML, we have decided to slide the tpaML
standardization work
over from OASIS into ebXML. On the Wednesday of the San Jose meeting, Marty
Sachs
of IBM's Advanced Commerce Institute will give a one hour talk about tpaML
and this should
set the stage for the ebXML community to decide exactly how to proceed with
it. Marty will
be joining IBM's ebXML team and will available for the whole meeting should
any one or any group
wish to discuss the tpaML spec in greater detail.

..........................................................
Bob Sutor
IBM Program Director, XML Technology
Chair, OASIS Board of Directors

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