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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
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