Re: [egov] Naming and Design Rules for E-Government

[jon.bosak@sun.com]

[chiusano_joseph@bah.com:]

| EXCERPT: 
| P.2: Because UBL is the first standard designed to work within an ebXML
| framework - the design of UBL will set a trend for the development of
| vocabularies in other domains.
| 
| COMMENT:
| Not sure that the characterization of UBL in this way is entirely
| accurate - could you please elaborate?

I believe that UBL is, in fact, the first XML payload format
designed from the beginning to work within an ebXML framework.
The idea was first proposed to members of the ebXML Executive at
the ebXML meeting in Brussels (May 2000), and the group that was
to become the OASIS UBL TC held the first of several
organizational meetings in April 2001, a month before ebXML was
released in Vienna.

I believe that UBL is also the first XML payload format to have
been designed from the beginning to conform to the ebXML Core
Components Technical Specification.

Best regards,

Jon

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