1. Harmonization UN/CEFACT Lunch & Learn March 13, 2006 Daniel I. Kazzaz Chair, Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 CEO, Rapid Data Interchange (RDI)

2. Harmonization

3. About ASC X12  Offers a neutral environment for cross-industry standards collaboration & harmonization  Administers a dynamic process that effectively creates, reviews, approves & maintains standards  Over 315 X12 EDI transaction sets  The standard focuses on rigor, completeness and reuse  Produces XML Schema via X12’s Context Inspired Component Architecture (CICA)

4. X12 Subcommittee & Task Groups  Communications & Controls  Finance  Government  Harmonization & Outreach  Insurance  Marketing  Policies & Procedures  Supply Chain  Technical Assessment  Transportation

5. X12 Tools & Processes  Central repository  Automated message definition exchange  Tools to simplify & expedite message development  Altova, EDIFECS, GEFEG & Sparx Systems  Smart message definition exchange

6. What’s on the Horizon?  Lessons learned from HIPAA  Expanding from B2B to B2C transactions  Standardized exchanges inside & outside organizations  Requirements for both batch and interactive transactions

7. Harmonization  Committed to working with complementary standards organizations and industry verticals  Collaborating with organizations to reduce redundancies and leveraging knowledge to enhance business process flow

8. Harmonization  Message capability  Business process  Message approval process

9. Future Collaboration  Restore strong relationship between ASC X12 and UN/CEFACT  Promote shared code set, syntactic and semantic interoperability  Share resources  Joint efforts with other SDO’s

10. Questions/Comments Dan Kazzaz kazzaz@verizon.net