OASIS members and other interested parties,
Members of the OASIS Business Document Exchange (BDXR) TC
[1] have recently approved Special Majority Ballots [2] to
advance Service Metadata Publishing (SMP) Version 1.0 and
Business Document Metadata Service Location Version 1.0 as
Candidate OASIS Standards (COS). The COSs now enter a 60-day
public review period in preparation for a member ballot to
consider their approval as an OASIS Standards.
Service Metadata Publishing (SMP) Version 1.0
Candidate OASIS Standard 01
09 March 2017
and
Business Document Metadata Service Location Version 1.0
Candidate OASIS Standard 01
09 March 2017
What are the Candidate OASIS Standards and why are they
important?
"Service Metadata Publishing" describes a protocol for
publishing service metadata within a 4-corner network, where
entities exchange business documents through intermediary
gateway services.
To successfully send a business document in a 4-corner
network, an entity must be able to discover critical metadata
about the recipient (endpoint) of the business document, such
as types of documents the endpoint is capable of receiving and
methods of transport supported. The recipient makes this
metadata available to other entities in the network through a
Service Metadata Publisher service.
The COS describes the request/response exchanges between a
Service Metadata Publisher and a client wishing to discover
endpoint information. A client can either be an end-user
business application or a gateway/access point in the 4-corner
network. It also defines the request processing that must
happen at the client.
The TC received 5 Statements of Use from Chasquis
Consulting, Efact S.A.C., IBM, Norwegian Agency for Public
Management and Government (Difi), and ph-peppol-smp-server
[3].
"Business Document Metadata Service Location" defines
service discovery method values for use in DNS Resource Record
service fields. A method is first specified to query and
retrieve a URL for metadata services. Two metadata service
types are then defined. Also an auxiliary method pattern for
discovering a registration service to enable access to
metadata services is described. The methods defined here are
instances of the generic pattern defined within IETF RFCs for
Dynamic Delegation Discovery Services (DDDS). This
specification therefore defines DDDS applications for metadata
and metadata-registration services.
The TC received 3 Statements of Use from Chasquis
Consulting, Norwegian Agency for Public Management and
Government (Difi), and European Commission Directorate General
for Informatics, DG DIGIT [4].
About the TC:
The OASIS BDXR TC advances an open standards framework to
support public e-procurement and e-invoicing. The group
defines specifications for a lightweight and federated
messaging infrastructure that supports a 4-corner model for
the secure and reliable exchange of electronic documents.
Wherever possible, the TC specifications are based on profiles
of existing standards from OASIS and elsewhere. BDXR TC
members also coordinate the submission of new requirements as
use cases for expanded functionality.
All those involved in e-procurement and e-invoicing are
invited to participate in the BDXR TC, including public and
private sector agencies, enterprises, solution providers,
consultants, and researchers. E-payment actors including
financial institutions, associations and payment networks
should also be represented in this work.
Public Review Period:
The 60-day public review starts 16 March 2017 at 00:00 UTC
and ends 14 May 2017 at 23:59 UTC.
This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits
feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether
OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the
interoperability and quality of its technical work.
URIs:
The prose specification document and related files are
available here:
- Service Metadata Publishing (SMP) Version 1.0
Editable source (Authoritative):
HTML:
PDF:
XML schemas:
- Business Document Metadata Service Location Version 1.0
Editable source (Authoritative):
HTML:
PDF:
ZIP distribution file (complete):
For your convenience, OASIS provides complete packages of
the prose specifications and related files in ZIP distribution
files. You can download the ZIP files here:
- Service Metadata Publishing (SMP) V1.0:
- Business Document Metadata Service Location Version 1.0:
Additional information about the specification and the BDXR
TC may be found at the TC's public home page:
Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through
the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility as explained in the
instructions located via the button labeled "Send A Comment"
at the top of the TC public home page, or directly at:
Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for
other work of this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed
at:
All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS
Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide
carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of
the TC members. In connection with these public reviews of
“Service Metadata Publishing (SMP) Version 1.0" and "Business
Document Metadata Service Location Version 1.0,” we call your
attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [5] applicable especially
[6] to the work of this technical committee. All members of
the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create
obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a
member's patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that
read on an approved OASIS specification.
OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to
disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation
of the above specification, so that notice of them may be
posted to the notice page for this TC's work.
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[1] OASIS Business Document Exchange (BDXR) TC
[2] Special Majority Vote ballots
[3] Statements of Use for Service Metadata Publishing (SMP)
V1.0:
[4] Statements of Use for Business Document Metadata
Service Location Version 1.0:
Non-Assertion Mode
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