Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS: Achieving XML Interoperability in the Public Sector US Federal CIO Council XML Working Group May 15, 2002 Patrick Gannon President & CEO, OASIS

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Agenda Role of Standards OASIS in Government Initiatives OASIS Summary

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Patrick J. Gannon OASIS – C.E.O., President, Board Director UNECE – Chair, Team of Specialists for Internet Enterprise Development ( ) BEA Systems – Sr. VP Strategic Marketing Netfish Technologies – VP Industry Standards Open Buying on the Internet (OBI) – Exec. Dir. RosettaNet – Sr. Project Leader (1998) CommerceNet – VP Strategic Programs – XML eCommerce Evangelist ( ) – Interoperable Catalog WG ( )

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Role of Standards

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Government’s Role in Standards Major user Purchasing power Major developer Expertise (through NIST) Major driver Authority to strongly influence standards development

Copyright OASIS, 2002 To Drive Standards Effectively, Government Needs to Interface with private industry 2. Interface with Voluntary Standards Development Organizations (VSDO) 3. Endorse standards developed through open process with market adoption

Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS Delivers Both VSDO with a track record of creating widely adopted standards Open technical process that produces standards developed by and for major suppliers and users

Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS Standards: Open and Adopted Market Adoption Open Standardization Traction Sanction ProprietaryJCVConsortiaSDO SGML ISO XML W3C SOAP v1.1 SOAP v1.2 W3C UDDI v2 UDDI.org WSDL WG W3C eb MS v2 OASIS eb Reg v2 OASIS WSDL v1.1 Standards:

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Standards: SDO Path Market Adoption Open Standardization Traction Sanction ProprietaryJCVConsortiaSDO

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Standards: Proprietary Path Market Adoption Open Standardization Traction Sanction ProprietaryJCVConsortiaSDO

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Standards: OASIS Path Market Adoption Open Standardization Traction Sanction ProprietaryJCVConsortiaSDO

Copyright OASIS, 2002 E-Business Web Services The Global Standard for Electronic Business

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Types of Web Services Simple – No side effects – Non-transactional – Context free – Sessionless, no roles – Minimal security – Call-response model – Point-to-point – Not developmentally scalable Complex, e-Business – Impacts other steps – Transactional – Context sensitive conversions, ordering of steps – Session based, personalized – Exactly once semantics – Sophisticated security – Messaging based – Scalable

Copyright OASIS, 2002 How does this relate to ebXML? Exchanges, e-markets, supply chains, etc. need combinations of web services – Auction, pricing, tax computation, customs, RFP, RFQ, order management, content management – No two exchanges will use the same combination of services and service packages – Custom combinations require a framework approach ebXML provides the framework and many pieces

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Web Services Step 1: Description – WSDL – ebXML CPP Spec and ebXML Business Process Spec Step 2: Publication and Discovery – UDDI – ebXML Registry Spec Step 3: Invocation – SOAP over HTTP – ebXML Messaging Spec integrating SOAP, HTTP

Copyright OASIS, 2002 ebXML Messaging Spec and SOAP ebXML uses SOAP with Attachments, wrapping XML SOAP format in MIME envelopes MIME envelopes allow SOAP/ebXML messages to include non-XML content such as digitized images or programming code as attachments

The eCo Architecture Specification - Registries CommerceNet eCo Framework WG 1998

Copyright OASIS, 2002 An Important Distinction SOAP, UDDI, WSDL Developed by a small group of vendor companies ebXML Developed in an open process by more than 4500 participants representing 2000 organizations in 150 countries on virtually every continent

Copyright OASIS, 2002 ebXML The Global Standard for Electronic Business

Copyright OASIS, 2002 ebXML Provides a Standard Way to: Exchange business messages Conduct trading relationships Communicate data in common terms Define and register business processes

Copyright OASIS, 2002 ebXML History Begun as 18-month initiative in November 1999 Specifications delivered on schedule in May 2001 Developed in an open process by more than 4500 participants representing 2000 organizations in 150 countries on virtually every continent

Copyright OASIS, 2002 What does ebXML do? Lowers the cost/complexity of electronic business Facilitates global trade and puts SMEs and developing nations in the picture Expands electronic business to new and existing trading partners Converges current and emerging XML efforts Eliminates dependence by supporting any language, any payload, any transport

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Main ebXML concepts Business Processes – Defined as models, Expressed in XML Business Messages – Expressed in XML Trading Partner Agreement – Specifies parameters for businesses to interface with each other – Expressed in XML Business Service Interface – Implements Trading Partner Agreement – Expressed in XML Transport and Routing Layer – Moves the actual XML data between trading partners Registry/Repository - Provides a “container” for process models, vocabularies, and partner profiles.

Copyright OASIS, 2002 United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business Developers of EDIFACT One of four organizations in the world that can set de jure standards World’s largest independent, non- profit organization dedicated to the standardization of XML applications More than 200 member companies plus individuals

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Sponsored by UN/CEFACT United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business Sets worldwide policy and technical development in trade facilitation and electronic business Developed international EDI standard, UN/EDIFACT – one of only four international bodies able to set de jure standards – plans to officially accredit ebXML on completion Continuing Business Process work under eBTWG

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Sponsored by OASIS World’s largest independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the standardization of XML applications More than 500 members Operates XML.ORG Registry, the open community clearinghouse of XML application schemas Technical work on XML interoperability includes XML conformance and XML Registries/Repositories General XML technical resource

Copyright OASIS, 2002 “ebXML is our only chance this decade to establish an international e-commerce standard.”

Copyright OASIS, 2002 “ebXML provides a platform on which to build standards... that are developed faster and yet supported by a rich set of software tools.”

Copyright OASIS, 2002 “It is clear that ebXML will soon become the standard for all global trade. By implementing ebXML, GCI takes advantage of the excellent work that’s being accomplished to streamline many EDI processes and remove waste and redundancy from supply chains.”

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Industry Groups Support ebXML The Open Healthcare Group

Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS Members Support ebXML

Copyright OASIS, 2002 ebXML Architecture Package Retrieval of Profiles & new or updated ebXML Models Transport Biz Service Interface Biz Service Interface Internal Bus App Shrinkwrap App Repository Implementers Business Process and Information Models Build Registration TPA UML to XML conversion Build Retrieval of New or Updated ebXML Models ebXML Transport Retrieval of ebXML Specifications & Models

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Continuing ebXML Work Specifications completed May 2001; available at Infrastructure work continuing at OASIS – Messaging – Collaborative Partner – Interoperability, Implementation, Conformance – Registry & Repository Content-related work continuing at UN/CEFACT – Business Process – Core Components

Copyright OASIS, 2002 United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Geneva, Switzerland

Copyright OASIS, 2002 UN/ECE Team of Specialists on Internet Enterprise Development United Nations - Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva Committee for Trade, Industry & Enterprise Development WP8 - Working Party on Industry and Enterprise Development

Copyright OASIS, 2002 TSIED E-Transition Programme UN/ECE Advisory Council on Digital Economy E-Government Development Internet Infrastructure Development E-Payment Systems Development UN/ECE-ITU Joint E-Learning Programme Virtual SME Development Best Practices on the Use of ebXML

ebXML Business Repository - Implementation Benefits TSIED E-Gov Business Repository provides single, trusted resource for basic information on every registered business within a governmental region Through ebXML interface, company info can be shared inter- operably with other organizations: – Other governmental repositories – Chambers of Commerce – Trade Associations – E-Marketplaces Business repositories provide a foundation for rapid adoption of electronic business including e-services

E-Government Business Repository Internet ebXML Repository Service Adapter XML Government Mandated Business Registrar Company A Company B E-Gov. Core Business Data Trade Associations XML ebXML E-Marketplaces XML ebXML Federal / Regional Chamber of Commerce XML ebXML UDDI Registry XML Public Data Federal Chamber of Commerce Chamber Business Data Added Business Data (ebXML CPP)

E-Government Business Repository Internet.kg Core Business Data Central Asia Business Data Trade Associations XML ebXML E-Marketplaces XML ebXML Federal / Regional Chamber of Commerce XML ebXML.kz Core Business Data.tj Core Business Data.uz Core Business Data ebXML XML.tm Core Business Data ebXML XML ebXML XML ebXML XML ebXML XML ebXML XML

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Kyrgyz Republic Traditional Costumes

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev - Strategic IT Plan for Economic Reform

Copyright OASIS, 2002 “made in.kg”

Copyright OASIS, 2002 European Commission Brussels, Belgium

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Information Society Directorate General By 2003 – Europe’s online population will exceed USA – Companies connected to the web will equal 80% of European GDP Joint Research Center – Online Dispute Resolution using XML (ODRxml)

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Enterprise Directorate General Automotive Repair and Emissions Information Project – EU-wide framework for the provision of emission-related service information to the repair and other interested markets OASIS Technical Committee – CSW Group to manage the project – Participating Trade Associations Resulting specification offered to ISO

Copyright OASIS, 2002 United States Federal Government Washington, DC

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Federal CIO Council Architecture & Infrastructure Committee XML Working Group – Monthly Workshops on Technology Trends Registry / Repository Team – Built by NIST – Uses ebXML Registry v1.1 Specification

Copyright OASIS, 2002 U.S. E-Gov Initiatives Internal Effectiveness & Efficiency – E-Training – Recruitment One Stop – Enterprise HR Integration – Integrated Acquisition – E-Records Management – Enterprise Case Management Government-to-Citizen – USA Service – EZ Tax Filing – Online Access for Loans – Recreation One Stop – Eligibility Assistance Online

Copyright OASIS, 2002 U.S. E-Gov Initiatives Government-to-Business – Federal Asset Sales – Online Rulemaking Management – Simplified & Unified Tax & Wage Reporting – Consolidated Health Informatics – Business Compliance One Stop – International Trade Process Streamlining Government-to- Government – E-Vital – E-Grants – Disaster Assistance & Crisis Response – Geospatial Information One Stop – Wireless Networks

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Government Accounting Office “Electronic Government – Challenges to Effective Adoption of the Extensible Markup Language” 5 April 2002 – Report to the Chairman, Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate (Hon. Joseph Lieberman) Authored by David McClure, Director, Information Technology Management Issues, and staff Reviewed by many other departments –Fed CIOs, OMB, GSA, NIST, NASA, NARA

Copyright OASIS, 2002 GAO XML Report Reviewed status of XML & Federal Govt. implementation challenges Recommendations to the OMB to enhance planning for adoption of XML –Need govt.-wide XML strategy –Consolidate govt. needs for SDOs –Establish registry of govt. data items –Implement XML through enterprise architectures

Copyright OASIS, 2002 LegalXML An OASIS Member Section OASIS

Copyright OASIS, 2002 LegalXML Organized in November 1998 – Joined OASIS in March 2002 Mission – To develop open, non-proprietary technical standards for legal “content” as it appears in court filings, contracts, transcripts, and other legal documents of all kinds. Participants in LegalXML include – Lawyers – Government agencies – Members of academia – Internet software developers – Application vendors

Copyright OASIS, 2002 LegalXML 1 New Technical Committee – Court Filings 2 New Discussion Lists Started – E-Contracts – Transcripts Other TCs To Transition – Court Documents – Legal Citations – Criminal Justice – Legislation – Intelligence Systems

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Election & Voter Services Technical Committee Overview & Progress OASIS

Copyright OASIS, 2002 History Formed March 2001 – election.com, Accenture, Microsoft Inaugural Meeting May 2001 Chair: Anwar Choudhury, UK Office of E-Envoy Monthly meetings to date – Teleconference and face-to-face

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Deliverables  Election Markup Language (EML)  Data interchange standards  Defined as XML schemas  Facilitate all aspects of election and voter services, public and private  Sanctioned through OASIS

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Interchange Standards Need for information to be exchanged at several points in the election process Several parties involved Need to service dissimilar systems and equipment Open process

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Targeted Services  Pre election  Election  Candidates  Voters  Election  Voting  Post election  Results  Audit  Analysis

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Committee Membership Governments – UK, Italy, France, Australia, NZ, European Parliament Corporations Election service providers Open source groups Media Election reform and watchdog groups

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Milestones and Deliverables Project plan completed Autumn 2001 EML version 1 - April 2002 – Voting Process Document – XML schemas – Scenarios Testing/validation - on going OASIS Standard - End 2002? Future - maintenance/enhancements

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Controlled Trade Markup Language Technical Committee Overview OASIS

Copyright OASIS, 2002 History Formed May 2002 – US State Dept., UK e-Envoy Sponsor: US State Department Chair: Todd Harbour, FGM First meeting: June 21, 2002 – Teleconference and face-to-face

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Goals - Controlled Trade ML TC  Develop a unified controlled trade vocabulary that supports an international collection of business documents  Trade Applications  Cases  Export Licenses  Delivery Verification Certificates  etc.

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Convergence Activities OASIS

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Orgs Move Specs to OASIS ADpr Initiative AuthXML.Org ITML.Org LegalXML.org S2ML.Org TopicMaps.Org WSUI.Org XRPM Working Group

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Vendors Migrate Specs to OASIS WSXL from IBMWSCM TC XOCP from BEA SystemsBTP TC xCBL from Commerce OneUBL TC ITML from JamcrackerPSML TC CRML from MSI Business Sol.CIQ TC

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Convergence Happens at OASIS AuthXML and S2ML SAML TREX and RELAX RELAX NG WSUI and WSXL WSCM XRPM, ADpr, ITML PSML

Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS One Membership – Many Opportunities

Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS provides a framework for XML interoperability that is critical to the future success of electronic business. OASIS puts the control of XML specifications firmly in the hands of those who will use them. Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems Chair, OASIS Universal Business Language Organizer of the Working Group that Created XML ”“

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Mission OASIS drives the development, convergence & adoption of e-business standards.

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Overview OASIS is a member consortium dedicated to building systems interoperability specifications We focus on industry applications of structured information standards, such as XML, SGML, & CGM. Members of OASIS are providers, users and specialists of standards-based technologies & include organizations, individuals & industry groups. – ~200 organizational members, ~250 individual members International, Not-for-profit, Open, Independent Successful through industry-wide collaboration

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Board of Directors Colin Evans, Intel Corporation Patrick J. Gannon, OASIS Jim Hughes, Hewlett Packard Una Kearns, Documentum Christopher Kurt, Microsoft Norbert H. Mikula, Intel Corporation Simon Nicholson, Sun Microsystems Michael Weiner, IBM Corporation

Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS standards process Standards are created under an open, democratic, vendor-neutral process – Any interested parties may participate, comment – No one organization can dictate the standard – Ensures that standards meet everyone’s needs, not just largest players’ Open to all interested parties All discussion open to public comment One organization/One vote Resulting work is guaranteed to be representative of the industry as a whole, not just any one vendor’s view

Copyright OASIS, 2002 What OASIS Offers Industry Time to Market: don’t waste your time and effort setting up – Committee process – Infrastructure (web site, mail lists) – IPR policy – Copyright protection – Program Management – Marketing/Promotion – Anti-trust Use your technical expertise on technical work, not on setting up administrative overhead

Copyright OASIS, 2002 What OASIS Offers Its Members Opportunity to pursue technical work in a neutral environment – Buy-in and support from other developing and implementing organizations Opportunity to set the technical agenda of a recognized industry standards organization – OASIS member-driven technical process

Copyright OASIS, 2002 US and Local Agencies Participating in OASIS NIST DISA GSA DoN DoJ DoS Federal Reserve LA County ISAB Maricopa County Orange County Superior Court Missouri OSCA

Copyright OASIS, 2002 International Agencies Tradegate ECA (Australia) Bankers Assoc of ROC NII Enterprise Promotion Agency (Taiwan) University of Hong Kong Korea ECIF European Parliament UK Office of e-Envoy UK Ministry of Defence Technical Information Centro Tecnico per la Rete Unitaria

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Technical Committee Activities OASIS

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Current Technical Committees Access Control (XACML) Business Transaction Protocol (BTP) Conformance Controlled Trade ML Customer Information (CIQ) Directory Services (DSML) DocBook ebXML CPPA ebXML IIC ebXML Messaging ebXML Registry Election Services Entity Resolution Human Markup Provisioning Services RELAX NG Rights Language Security Services Topic Maps Published Subj. Topic Maps (Geo & Lang) Universal Business Lang. Vocabulary for XML Stds. Web Services Interactive Applications Web Services Remote Portal XML Common Biometric XML Localization Interchange XSLT Conformance CGM Open (member section) LegalXML (member section)

Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS Technical Committees – e-Commerce ebXML Messaging Services ebXML Registry ebXML CPPA ebXML Implementation and Conformance Access Control (XACML) Security Services (SAML) Business Transactions (BTP) Universal Business Language (UBL)

Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS Technical Committees – Security Access Control (XACML) Security Services (SAML) Provisioning Services Common Biometric Format (XCBF) Rights Language

Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS Technical Committees – Web Services Provisioning Services Web Services Interactive Applications Web Services Remote Portal + eCommerce TCs + Security TCs

Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS Technical Committees – Public Sector - Industry Election & Voter Services Controlled Trade Markup Language LegalXML – Court Filings – E-Contracts – Transcripts – Court Documents – Legal Citations – Criminal Justice – Legislation – Intelligence Systems

Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS

Copyright OASIS, 2002 XML.org Central clearinghouse for accessing XML schemas, vocabularies and related documents Self-supporting, non-commercial resource created by and for the community at large Foster collaboration within and between industries

Copyright OASIS, 2002 XML.org

Copyright OASIS, 2002 The XML Cover Pages The authoritative resource for XML info – News – Press Releases – Product Information – Specifications – Whitepapers

Copyright OASIS, 2002 The XML Cover Pages

Copyright OASIS, 2002 Technical Committee Details Most current status of each TC available at open.org/committees/committees.shtml open.org/committees/committees.shtml TC mail list archives available at

Copyright OASIS, 2002 OASIS Value Nine years demonstrated success Neutral and independent Technical and procedural competence Worldwide visibility and outreach Close coordination with peer standards organizations on a global level

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