ebXML, Hutchinson Holdings, Terror Threats and Container Shipment Tracking

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

I just saw the peice on 60 Minutes tonight - where the CEO of Hutchinson, who had

44% of container traffic worldwide - is desperately looking for support from

governments to help turn around the current vulnerability situation.  Having been

ignored here in the USA.

 

Container shipment, EDI and XML is something I know a good deal about having

worked on various US Customs initiatives and commercial implementations.

This includes the metrics of interdiction of contraband shipments through the

use of advanced AI technologies looking at those shipment patterns.

 

This looks like a golden opportunity to leverage the ebXML Hermes ebMS as-is

today - to provide a ubquitous and low-cost solution.   Hermes ebMS is already

doing Dangerous Good manifesting for Hong Kong (the world's busiest port) -

and I've done a technical evaluation of that code base - that shows it is well

suited to task for the typical Java based small shop.

 

I'm currently working on enhancing Hermes to include CPA management with

ebXML Registry and jCAM templates for content validation of payloads for

a different application.

 

OSDL is working on adding ebXML to LINUX.

 

This is all low-budget stuff right now.  If people are really serious about coping

and responding to the terror threat of Trojan containers - time now to put a

task force in place to take this excellent jump start of an enhanced Hermes

and deploying it world-wide to provide a container tracking system.

 

If Hutchinson jump started this - with help from Governments in Asia, Europe

and US - this could be easily rolled out aggressively over the next 18 months

to include a massive chunk of the worlds container traffic.  Notice - the more

you automate the high volume shippers - the more time you have to devote

to the potential detection of rogue shipments.

 

Is this TC up for creating a SC urgently to looking into this and if so what

governments will supply staff to analysize the tracking needs and come

up with a plan that combines early lightweight rapid deployment of

basic functionality - to be followed by increasingly sophisticated

aspects from there?  Can we count of Hong Kong to help orchestrate

this with Hutchinson?

 

A blue-print for this is possibly this document:

 

 http://ebxmlbook.com/Benefits%20of%20ebXML.pdf

 

Yesterdays events in North Korea need only serve here to remind of

the urgency.

 

Thanks, DW