[Fwd: XML.org Daily Newslink. Monday, 04 October 2004]

[Farrukh Najmi <Farrukh.Najmi@Sun.COM>]

FYI...

See link to WSRP - ebXML Registry TN.

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Regards,
Farrukh

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XML.org Daily Newslink. Monday, 04 October 2004
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HEADLINES:

* Migration to XML Standards Will Be Slow, Not Swift
* Using ebXML Registry to Publish, Manage and Discover WSRP Artifacts
* Lessig launches Creative Commons for the UK
* Vendors Look to Tame DRM Standards with Coral
* Jury Rules for Kodak in Java Patent Dispute

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Migration to XML Standards Will Be Slow, Not Swift
Cherie Marriott and Martine DeWeirdt, FinanceAsia.com

Conversion will take up to 10 years and be driven by users' willingness
to tap new revenues and expand their businesses, says Martine DeWeirdt,
head of standards at SWIFT. DeWeirdt said in the interview: "Unlike the
migration to the new ISO15022 standards, we are not making the migration
to XML a mandatory requirement with a deadline for conversion. Instead
users need to make the switch based on their business requirements --
driven by a willingness to tap new revenues and expand their businesses.
XML is in place and we have developed new messages for customer payments,
bulk payments, and cash reporting. In the securities industry, we have
started working on pre-trade and managed funds messages. Very few users
have implemented XML to date, but we are piloting the standard in closed
user groups. XML has a unique capability whereby upgrades and
modifications can be deployed without extensive physical handling. They
can be injected into a system automatically. This means that the
deployment of standards is significantly shortened and any subsequent
maintenance is a lot easier. Of course, this requires that the
application or system concerned needs to be capable of accepting XML.
So while there is an initial investment in moving to XML, any
subsequent upgrades can be achieved quite cheaply."

http://www.financeasia.com/articles/1982BB53-9027-7E17-4BD58355499E9048.cfm
See also SWIFTStandards XML: http://www.swift.com/index.cfm?item_id=41667

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Using ebXML Registry to Publish, Manage and Discover WSRP Artifacts
Farrukh Najmi (ed), OASIS WSRP TC Public Review Draft

This WSRP-ebXML Registry Technical Note from the WSRP Publish Find Bind
Subcommittee proposes a standard methodology for publishing and finding
WSRP Producer and Portlet services in an ebXML Registry. It is based
upon on version 2.5 of the ebXML Registry specifications (ebRS, ebRIM);
however, it is expected that it will be largely applicable to other
versions of the ebXML Registry specification. The note describes how
WSRP Producer web services and Portlets are published, managed and
discovered within an ebXML Registry.  Example use cases include: (1)
managing the life cycle of WSRP Producer Service and Portlet descriptions
that have been published to an ebXML Registry, where life cycle
operations include approval, deprecation and deletion of WSRP Producer
service and Portlet descriptions; (2) discovering WSRP Producer service
and Portlet descriptions within an ebXML Registry; (3) managing access
control to WSRP artifacts that have been published to an ebXML Registry;
(4) receiving notification of changes to WSRP Producer service
descriptions that have been published to an ebXML Registry.

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/9529/wsrp-pfb-ebxml-tn-1.0-draft-11.pdf
See also OASIS ebXML Registry TC: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/regrep

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Lessig launches Creative Commons for the UK
Lucy Sherriff, The Register

Larry Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford University and all-round
intellectual property guru, was in London today to announce the launch
of the UK version of the Creative Commons licence. It will be available
for use from 1 November, and the public consultation on the final draft
begins today. Comments are invited before 18 October. Creative Commons
is designed to provide a balance between an entirely regulated digital
world where "all rights are reserved, and then some", and a world with
no controls, where authors have total freedom, but their work can be
exploited very easily. The idea is that authors will be able to set out
terms of use when they create their work. A creator can say at the time
of publishing "I am happy for others to use this for anything they
like, as long as it is not for commercial purposes", or "This work is
totally available to everyone for commercial and non commercial purposes"
and so on. This way ideas can be protected, but the author is able to
encourage some other uses of their work. "The licence is built on a
common insight which is not new," Lessig told an audience of journalists,
technologists and academics. "That is, creators are not pirates, even
if they build on the past."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/04/creative_commons/
See also Creative Commons web site: http://www.creativecommons.org/

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Vendors Look to Tame DRM Standards with Coral
Laura Rohde, InfoWorld

Six large technology and music companies announced Monday they have
banded together in an attempt to bring some interoperability to the DRM
(digital rights management) systems protecting digital content such as
music and movies within the next nine months. Coral Consortium founding
members include Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Intertrust Technologies
Corporation, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Matsushita Electric
Industrial Co. Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, Sony Corporation, and
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. Though establishing a group seeking
interoperability is an important first step, compatibility between DRM
systems isn't going to happen any time soon, according to Mark Mulligan,
senior analyst with Jupiter Research in London. Mulligan believes that
a big consumer backlash will come against technology and music companies
as the consumption of digital content becomes more mainstream. "I think
such a backlash could come as early as the beginning of next year, when
people start to try and use the iPods and other digital players they
received at Christmas as presents, only to realize for the first time
the constraints that exist.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/10/04/HNdrmcoral_1.html
See also the Coral Consortium web site: http://www.coral-interop.org/

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Jury Rules for Kodak in Java Patent Dispute  
Darryl K. Taft, eWEEK

Eastman Kodak Co. won the first round of a Java lawsuit against Sun
Microsystems Inc. that could impact Sun's bottom line and possibly
threaten Microsoft's .Net platform. A Rochester, N.Y., jury found Friday
that Sun infringed on Kodak's patents when it created Java and released
the technology in 1995. Kodak is based in Rochester and is the city's
largest employer. At issue are three patents that Kodak inherited when
it acquired Wang Laboratories Inc. in 1997. Kodak claims that Java
infringes on parts of the three patents. One of the patents at issue
indicates a means by which "two processes that are to cooperate in a
data-interchange operation identify each other, and to identify data
formats they have in common." And some observers say that, taken broadly
the same patents might be used to claim infringement by Microsoft's .Net
platform. Sun intends to vigorously defend its intellectual property,
company spokeswoman May Petry said.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1666237,00.asp

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