ebBP 3/15/2005: ebXML JC Spec Update Summary - NEED FEEDBACK

["Monica J. Martin" <Monica.Martin@Sun.COM>]

For tomorrow's meeting, here is an update to consider. Jamie, can you 
please comment if this could be used for the external messaging (of 
course base information used)? We hope you can join tomorrow's call. 
Open questions are:

    * On future update, add CC, architecture?
    * On future update, do we add adoption indicators?

Summary (sent 15 March 2005)
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Summary of specification progress within OASIS:
JC reference (original draft): 
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ebxml-jc/email/archives/200502/msg00012.html

Slightly updated:

   * ebMS: v3.0 (in work, draft)
         o Draft in work. F2F held in January 2005, however progress
           has been slower than anticipated with a small group.
           Although progress has been slow, key changes are in work
           such as integration with WS-Reliability, payload services,
           security improvements, WS-I BP conformance, at a minimum.
         o Working document reference:
           
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ebxml-msg/download.php/11373/wd-ebms-3_0.html
           (February 2005)
         o Status: May meet at OASIS symposium. No projected date for
           v3.0 Committee Draft status.
   * ebReg/Rep v3.0 (Committee Specifications approved, 15 March 2005)
         o v3.0 RIM and RS achieved Committee Draft in February 2005 and 
concluded public review 14 March 2005.
           The ebXML RIM and RS Committee Specifications were approved 
15 March 2005, which lays the groundwork
           to move to OASIS standard.
         o Significant improvements have been made including SAML
           support, WS-I BP compliance, event notification, content
           management capabilities, etc.
         o Specification references:
           
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/regrep/document.php?document_id=11383
         o FAQ summary: http://www.ebxml.org/ebusinessxmlregistry.pdf
         o Capabilities summary update:
           http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-02-14-a.html (from Cover Pages)
   * ebCPPA v2.1 (in work, draft)
         o Errata v2.1 distributed in draft form in early February
           2005. Work continues slowly on negotiation and alignment
           with ebMS and ebBP specification development in the areas of
           role bindings, transactions, etc. Progress has been made in
           abstracting some of the ebCPPA concepts to enable effective
           use of many underlying protocols such as those for web
           services, AS2, etc.
         o Errata v2.1 reference:
           
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ebxml-cppa/document.php?document_id=11280
   * ebBP: v2.0 (in work, TC review of pre-Committee Draft started 23 
Feb 2005)
         o Package includes schema, XSLT example
           transform for v1.01=>2.0 migration, signals schema and
           example, comments and work item list, glossary. Many
           improvements have been made in state transitions,
           composability (ComplexBTA and OperationMapping), role
           binding and monitoring constructs. In addition, the BT
           patterns have been concretized and extensible patterns
           developed to enable the user community.
    o  A pre-notification was sent to key user
           communities to solicit early comments and investment. 
Valuable feedback has been received and
           comments are under review and resolution underway.
         o Specification draft reference:
           
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ebxml-bp/email/archives/200502/msg00136.html
         o Pre-notification reference:
           
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ebxml-bp/email/archives/200502/msg00135.html

   * ebXML IIC v1.1 (Committee Draft package)
         o In January 2005, the IIC updated its conformance and
           interoperability packages including the IIC framework and
           achieved v1.1
         o Committee Draft status. This v1.1 update provides many
           improvements, and has also resulted in a freely available
           implementation
         o from NIST. Improvements include more comprehensive web
           services and ebXML testing support. The team has also been
           working with OASIS on interoperability planning for expanded
           activities within OASIS standardization development and with
           a TAB subteam that is investigating how to rationalize
           conformance criteria (including informal discussions with W3C).
         o NIST open implementation: http://ebxmltesting.nist.gov/.
           Three implementations have been conducted by NIST, Korbit,
           and Drake Certivo.
         o v1.1 IIC Committee Drafts:
           
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ebxml-iic/document.php?document_id=10896