RE: [ebsoa] IBM BI-ICS

[<david.burdett@commerceone.com>]

There's more information on this initiative available at [1] and [2] and a specification at [3]. However Business Payload Composition bit sounds to me awfully similar in scope to work being done by UBL see [4] which says "The TC will then design a mechanism for the generation of context-specific business schemas through the application of transformation rules to the common UBL source library".

... or am I missing something.

David


[1] http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-02-02-a.html
[2] http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-biics/
[3] ftp://www6.software.ibm.com/software/developer/library/x-biics/BI-ICSSpec_v1.html
[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ubl

-----Original Message-----
From: Chiusano Joseph [mailto:chiusano_joseph@bah.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 2:26 PM
To: ebsoa@lists.oasis-open.org; CCRev; CAM; Registry TC - SCM SC
Subject: [ebsoa] IBM BI-ICS


This morning at the XML.gov monthly meeting[1] I saw a presentation
given by Scott Hinkleman of IBM on IBM's new "Business Integration -
Information Conformance Standards (BI-ICS)" specification[2]. I found it
quite interesting, and thought I'd provide a few comments here. Although
not available as of this e-mail, the presentation should be available at
the XML.gov site[3] within the next few days, if IBM does make it
available. 

BI-ICS essentially lives at what IBM calls the "Business Level" of the
Web Services stack, above "Service Composition" (where WS BPEL,
WS-Transaction, etc. live). I know - it sounds like the "ebXML area" of
the stack, so we might very well expect some overlap in this and future
specs - as BI-ICS is apparently one of 4 planned "specification areas"
for this "framework" (my own use of this term) which is as of yet
unnamed. 

Another area will be "Business Payload Composition", which - Scott
Hinkleman stated - "has its roots in ebXML Core Components", and
specifies a "context-driven approach" to payload composition (overlaps,
anyone?). Scott did, however, state that BI-ICS is "not IBM's answer to
OASIS CAM".

IBM is soliciting interest in advancing BI-ICS to an open standards
consortium.

Let the discussions begin...

Kind Regards,
Joe

[1] http://xml.gov/agenda/20040317.htm
[2] http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-02-02-a.html
[3] http://xml.gov/presentations.asp