Re: [ebxml-iic] ebxml-builders

[David RR Webber - XMLGlobal <Gnosis_@compuserve.com>]

Message text written by Matthew MacKenzie
>The goal is to get something 
going much like soapbuilders, where vendors can work out solutions for 
parts of the specs that are not yet sufficient.  If the community 
flourishes, we may even be able to foster a level of cooperation among 
vendors that rivals what has been done in soapbuilders, where everyone 
exposes an endpoint of their latest product so that the other vendors 
can make sure that they work with everyone else.
<<<<

Matt,

The ebXML MHS implementor community will clearly vote here as they see
best.

At the OAG meeting today the whole notion of an ebXMLbuilders in line with
the SOAPbuilders was warmly supported as a means to allow 
individual implementors to collaborate.   This informal structure is 
critical to allowing implementors to field-test components prior to joining
more formal efforts such as the NIST testbed or interoperability testing.

It allows vendors to work together to test out interoperability and build a
wide base of stable ebXML MHS implementations that are vital to driving the
universal adoption of ebXML.

I think we can check back in a couple of weeks at the end of the month
to get a head count of who has joined in this vital effort - and started
this process.  I already had four vendors giving verbal support for this
today at the OAG meeting.

Cheers, DW.