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Subject: [ubl-lsc] Re: Outline: ACORD liaison press release
Carol, Thanks for a superb effort. I appreciate the work you put into the revised draft, but unfortunately I think the direction you've taken is not going to work for us right now. | Thanks to Jon for preparing that draft. Issuing a press release | simply to say an org has joined an OASIS TC, however, is | problematic (for OASIS) This was discussed in a call with Patrick Gannon, Karl Best, and Mark Crawford last Thursday. The press release outline that I proposed to the Liaison Subcommittee the next day and that is expressed in the draft I submitted Monday is the outline that was discussed in that call. | and perhaps not very interesting (for the press). The news is that ACORD in particular is joining a group of other liaisons that is already in existence. ACORD is a very important industry organization, and the news that it is providing a liaison to UBL will be quite interesting enough to the analysts and organizations following our progress. | I recommend we consider revising this release to better | emphasize the message of valuable input and buy-in from all the | groups involved. Here's the crux of the problem: the presence of the UBL liaisons indicates input but cannot yet indicate buy-in. The purpose of the UBL liaisons is to provide guidance and input and to help arrange for reviews of UBL work in progress. We wish to avoid giving the mistaken impression that all of the UBL liaison organizations are going to endorse the final UBL specification. We can't know that until the specifications are done and each organization has had a chance to take a formal position regarding them. We're also not sure that all of our liaisons will wish to be headlined in the manner suggested by your new draft. These considerations led the SC last Friday to propose the direction shown in the draft that I submitted Monday. There is an additional very large logistical problem implicit in the direction taken in the new draft: it will very difficult, if not impossible, to get quotes from all of the liaison organizations in time for this press release. At the very least, a reorganization of the scope implicit in the new draft represents a distinctly different plan than the one approved by the LSC in our meeting, and approving a new plan will require a delay until our next meeting and then a whole new discussion. We don't have time for this. For these reasons, I suggest that we return to the outline approved by the LSC. The quote should come from ACORD, as agreed during the LSC meeting. Beth Grossman has already provided such a quote, which I have included in the revision below. All we need at this point is to have the appropriate OASIS information included at the end and then we're ready to go. I would like to move ahead with this as quickly as possible. Best regards, Jon ================================================================== ACORD Brings Insurance Industry to UBL Liaisons ACORD, the insurance industry standards organization, has become the latest industry group to appoint a representative to the OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) Technical Committee. ACORD 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. "ACORD has been a long time advocate of working with other organizations to achieve interoperability across industries," said Gregory Maciag, CEO of ACORD. "Insurance is not only a vertical market, but also an integral part of international supply chain management. The UBL effort brings together major players in the standards arena to develop ebXML compliant solutions. This is very important to our industry." Other organizations with liaisons to UBL include ARTS, representing retail sales; ASC X12, representing 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. About UBL The OASIS UBL (Universal Business Language) Technical Committee is an open, publicly accountable, nonprofit initiative to define 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 dictonary, 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 that designed to solve major interoperability problems for both vendors and users and 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. For more information on UBL, see http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl. About ACORD ACORD (Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development) is a global, nonprofit insurance association whose mission is to facilitate the development and use of standards for the insurance, reinsurance, and related financial services industries. With offices in Belgium, the United Kingdom, and the United States, ACORD accomplishes its mission by remaining an objective, independent advocate for sharing information among diverse platforms. Affiliated with ACORD are hundreds of insurance and reinsurance companies and thousands of agents and brokers, related financial services organizations, software providers, and industry organizations worldwide. More information about ACORD can be found at www.acord.org. About ARTS The Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS), a division of the National Retail Federation (NRF), is dedicated to the creation of an international, barrier-free technology environment for retailers. The National Retail Federation (NRF) is the world's largest retail trade association, with membership that comprises all retail formats and channels of distribution, including department, specialty, discount, catalog, Internet, and independent stores. NRF members represent an industry that encompasses more than 1.4 million U.S. retail establishments with aggregate annual sales of more than $3.4 trillion. NRF's international members operate stores in more than 50 nations. In its role as the retail industry's umbrella group, NRF also represents 32 national and 50 state associations in the U.S. as well as 36 international associations representing retailers abroad. For more information about ARTS, visit www.nrf-arts.org. About ASC X12 The Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12, accredited by the American National Standards Institute and comprised of cross-industry representation, develops robust e-business exchange specifications and electronic data interchange standards that interact with a multitude of e-commerce technologies and serve as the premier tool for integrating electronic applications. Through standards setting and active participation in emerging and technically relevant initiatives, ASC X12 facilitates the effective exchange of electronic information. Propelling global e-business, ASC X12 serves as the entry point for the United States into the United Nations/Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport (UN/EDIFACT), an international standard relating to the exchange of trade goods and services. To learn more about ASC X12, visit www.x12.org. About EIDX The Electronics Industry Data Exchange Association (EIDX) is a section of the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) that represents the majority of companies in the electronics industry. EIDX researches and develops information exchange methodologies for the electronics industry and develops and publishes business models and standards implementation guidelines that represent current and emerging practices. For more information about EIDX, visit www.eidx.org. About RosettaNet RosettaNet is an independent, self-funded, non-profit consortium dedicated to the development and deployment of standard electronic business interfaces to align the processes between supply chain partners on a global basis. More than 250 companies representing more than $1 trillion in annual information technology and electronic components revenues, currently participate in RosettaNet's standards development, strategy, and implementation activities. A complete list of member companies and more information on RosettaNet is available at www.rosettanet.org. About XBRL XBRL is an international consortium comprising accounting standards bodies, accounting firms, technology companies, financial information providers, corporations, and government regulatory bodies. The XBRL standard is freely licensed and permits the automatic exchange and reliable extraction of financial information across all software formats and technologies, including the Internet. XBRL does not require a company to disclose any additional information beyond that which they normally disclose under existing accounting standards, nor does it require a change to existing accounting standards. More information on XBRL is available at www.xbrl.org. About OASIS [OASIS blurb goes here]
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