Re: ebXML, Hutchinson Holdings, Terror Threats and Container Shipment Tracking

[phogan@sinotechnologies.com]

David,

I have already talked with the technology group over at the Department of Homeland Security about using Linux ebXML. This is an excellent example.  Good work. I will pass this along to them.

Patrick


----- Original Message -----
From: "David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:44:42 -0400
To: "eGov OASIS" <egov@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: ebXML, Hutchinson Holdings, Terror Threats and Container Shipment Tracking

> 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
> 



Patrick Hogan
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