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Subject: Draft charter clarification
Dear all As discussed this week as part of the new obligatory OASIS TC Vitality review, the members of the OASIS Business Document Exchange (BDXR) Technical Committee wish to continue the work of the TC. It was also discussed that the TC’s current
charter accurately reflects the scope of our work, with the one clarification that the TC no longer pursues any work on the PEPPOL specifications for the START and LIME protocols. Section 3.5 shall therefore be removed from the current charter. I will include in next week’s agenda a motion to request that TC Admin set up a ballot to approve the clarification, after which the new charter will be: 1) Name of the TC: OASIS Business Document Exchange TC 2) Statement of Purpose: The BDX standard will describe an architecture (or sets of reference architectures) where two entities exchange business documents in a secure and reliable way through the use of gateways (sometimes also referred to as access points), which
is also known as the "four-corner model". The purpose of the TC is therefore to define the specifications of a lightweight and federated messaging and trust infrastructure for reliable data exchange, messaging and web services interoperability between domains. Here, a "domain"
can be any community whose members (a) are connected through a shared system, and (b) may interact with others across domains. Regardless of each domain's internal workings, such interactions entail them each consuming and exposing to others over the Internet certain interfaces. These specifications should provide a framework for domains to interoperate securely
and reliably (via Web Services), which can therefore be viewed as an Inter-cloud Web Services framework. The TC specifications should be lightweight but, wherever and to the extent possible, based on profiles of existing standards from OASIS and elsewhere that are widely-used and proven, or otherwise seen to be generally applicable. Approaches
that are modular and agnostic about data content and implementation architectures will be preferred. The TC will focus first on requirements for exchanges between groups of related domains around standardized processes/data. Requirements of cross-domain business documents exchange, with its corresponding use cases, and implied interoperability
requirements will inform prioritization of the TC's initial deliverables. The TC will specifically address requirements submitted by the Large Scale Pilots ("LSPs") in the area of e-government PEPPOL and e-CODEX. The work of the TC will contribute to the ongoing
convergence of Pan-European messaging and trust infrastructures for reliable data exchange. In certain areas the work will therefore initially be centered on the work of these LSPs (notably on SMLP around identity and service discovery, addressing and profiling), and will also consider other approaches and related specifications
(e.g. DNS, ebXML CPA, UDDI, ebXML RegRep, WS-Discovery), The TC may define or profile more than one such specification(s). In other areas, published specifications today may be absent or have gaps. In such cases the TC will attempt to identify relevant standards or work-in-progress at OASIS or other SDOs to establish liaisons with and provide requirements for
such efforts, as needed. 3) Scope of work of the TC: The specific objectives will be to define, specify and maintain the following:
4) List of deliverables: Technical specifications for protocols supporting distributed discovery of locations and e-business and technical capabilities of exchange partners. Profiles of B2B messaging protocols for use in four-corner (or multi-corner) topologies. 5) IPR Mode under which the TC will operate: The TC will operate under the Non-Assertion Mode. 6) The anticipated audience or users of the work: The initial target groups for the TC are:
7) Language of the Technical Committee: The business of the Technical Committee will be conducted in English. |
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