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Subject: [announce] NACS Brings Convenience Stores to OASIS UBL Liaisons


NACS Brings Convenience Stores to OASIS UBL Liaisons

Boston, MA, USA; 5 August 2002 -- NACS, an international trade
association representing the convenience store and petroleum
marketing industry, has become the latest industry group to appoint a
representative to the OASIS Universal Business Language
(UBL) Technical Committee. NACS joins liaisons from a broad group of
industry standards organizations in the subcommittee that provides
guidance to UBL, the initiative to define standard XML business forms
for electronic commerce.

NACS (http://www.cstorecentral.com/) is an international trade
association representing 2,300 retail and 1,700 supplier company
members. NACS member companies do business in nearly 40 countries around
the world, with the majority of members based in the United States.  The
U.S. convenience store industry, with over 124,500 stores across the
country, posted $283 billion in total sales for 2001, with $171 billion
in motor fuel sales.

"The typical convenience store conducts more than a thousand customer
interactions a day and must deal with a wide range of
suppliers," said John Hervey, CTO of NACS.  "Convenience stores are not
only points of sale for many perishable and packaged goods but are also
major retail outlets for gasoline and other petroleum products.  We're
looking to UBL to provide a uniform set of standards for transactions
across the whole range of convenience store suppliers."

Other organizations with liaisons to UBL include: ACORD, representing
the insurance industry; ARTS, representing retail sales; ASC X12 and the
UN/EDIFACT Working Group, representing U.S. and international EDI
standards; EIDX, representing the
electronics industry; RosettaNet, the information technology consortium;
and XBRL, the accounting industry standards
organization.  UBL liaisons provide input to UBL and coordinate the
review of standard XML business schemas as they become
publicly available. See http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/lsc/ for
details.

"Input from industry data exchange organizations ensures that UBL
reflects the needs of the marketplace," said Jon Bosak of Sun
Microsystems, chair of the OASIS UBL Technical Committee and organizer
of the working group that created XML. "Our goal of defining a common
XML library for basic business documents like purchase orders, invoices,
and shipping notices crosses all industries. Contributing to the
development of our library of UBL schemas allows industry groups to pool
their resources in the design of common business documents and to focus
their special expertise on the development of XML schemas for the
documents that are specific to their own domain."

About UBL (http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl)

The OASIS UBL (Universal Business Language) Technical Committee defines
a common XML library for basic business documents like purchase orders,
invoices, and shipping notices.  UBL provides a standard set of XML
building blocks together with a framework that will enable trading
partners to unambiguously identify and exchange basic e-commerce
documents in specific business contexts.

The OASIS UBL effort builds on the Electronic Business XML (ebXML)
infrastructure developed by OASIS and the United Nations.  The ebXML
specifications provide for XML registry services, reliable XML
messaging, standardized trading partner agreements, a standard data
dictionary, and a business context methodology.  However, UBL documents
are usable in a wide variety of other ecommerce frameworks as well.

UBL unites and harmonizes a number of currently existing XML and EDI
business libraries into a set of internationally recognized de jure
standards. Designed to solve major interoperability problems for both
vendors and users, UBL will speed the entry of small and medium-size
businesses into the electronic marketplace. UBL is freely available to
everyone without legal encumbrance or licensing fees.

About OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org):

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
Standards) is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the
development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards. Members
themselves set the OASIS technical agenda, using a lightweight, open
process expressly designed to promote industry consensus and unite
disparate efforts. OASIS produces worldwide standards for security, Web
services, XML conformance, business transactions, electronic publishing,
topic maps and interoperability within and between marketplaces.

For more information:
Carol Geyer
Director of Communications
OASIS www.oasis-open.org
carol.geyer@oasis-open.org
+1.978.667.5115 x209



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