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Subject: [egov-ws] ebXML and Web Services


David et al,

I am sorry that I was not able to attend the ebXML / Web Services sub-committee meeting yesterday due to other commitments and the time difference between the UK and Washington, although I found the initial main committee meeting very enlightening and informative with every-ones views and previous experience.

From my involvement with a number of Governments (National and Regional) within Europe who are wishing to initiate e-Government Programs (mainly in the accession states to the European Union and for migration from Partnership for Peace to full Nato membership) one of the biggest obstacles is that of the base standard and protocols, and this is what they are looking to industry and international bodies to set.  

Most countries have already started to develop a e-Government Vision and this includes the organisational structures and processes to be followed, and even once international leading practice for these structures and processes is defined the existing Government Organisations will make it difficult to retro-fit this to what has already been started within countries.

The biggest short-term help to these countries that the OASIS e-Government TC can give is guidance on the standards / protocols to be used, and as there seems to be a push towards ebXML (from within the EU IDA) and NATO (C3 Technical Architecture), a good first step would be to validate the use of ebXML within Government, and produce a number of worked scenarios.

With the use of scenarios, such as:
*	Business to Government submission.
*	Portal to Government submission on behalf of a citizen
*	Portal to Government submission on behalf of a business
*	Department to Department submission
*	Government to Government submission

we could show the ebXML document structures (envelope rather than exact payload), and also identify the areas where the ebXML model does not quite work and may need the inclusion of a small number of additional elements (may be egXML could recognised industry instance of ebXML).  The types of issues I would expect to find within Government are the use of certified time stamps within a message, how are Departmental, Governmental and Citizen Centric Services delivered by ebXML Messaging due to message splitting, and multiple-hop messaging (only examples and not an extensive list).  The definition could start with a base CPP for use within Governments and links into the OASIS reliable messaging TC.

Once this has been shown to work and 'egXML' becomes a standard vendors can implement the additional elements into their product set, we can achieve interoperability between Government Departments, Government Portals and International Governments, and this will be a large 'quick win' for the OASIS e-Government TC.

Any views on this, or help on how we take this forward.


Graham Beaver
Solution Leader - e-Government Framework
EMEA Government Practice
HP Services, Consulting & Integration

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