Re: [egov] ebXML and web services

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

Joe,

Great point.   Of course tax filings thru ebMS one would expect
to be business submissions or state submissions - but they could
also be from an accounting package in a P2P type configuration.

One thing for certain is that the IRS lives in the 19th century here in
the USA when it comes to burdening people with paper accounting
instead of electronic!

Anyway - for more info' on messaging choices and ebMS - see
the whitepaper at the ebXML.org site, and a nice article
discussing same is at:

 http://www.ebxmlforum.org/articles/ebFor_Art_20030613_01.html 

Thanks, DW.
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Message text written by "Chiusano Joseph"
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It seems logical (to me at least) that the transactions would use ebXML
and the services would use SOAP/WSDL.
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Citing your "file a tax return" example: Although one does not require
any aspect of the ebXML framework to carry out such a transaction (it
has often been done with an HTML page using ASP and an HTTP POST to
submit the tax return form), such a transaction *could* be part of an
ebXML framework. It all depends on what the overall business/system
objective is.
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