UBL 1.0 SBS released as OASIS Committee Specification

[jon.bosak@sun.com]

It is my great pleasure to announce the release of the UBL 1.0
Small Business Subset (SBS) as an OASIS Committee Specification.
The SBS CS is a completed technical specification based on the
OASIS UBL 1.0 Standard and is now available for general use at

   http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs-UBL-1.0-SBS-1.0/

Intended for small businesses and their software providers, the
UBL 1.0 SBS specifies how businesses, perhaps large enterprises
using the full capabilities of the UBL 1.0 Standard, should
formally comply with the requirements of trading partners
implementing just a minimal subset of UBL capabilities.  The SBS
also provides an initial target for software vendors just
beginning to implement processing of UBL 1.0 documents such as
purchase orders and invoices.  Since all documents conforming to
the SBS also conform to the UBL 1.0 Standard, no new UBL document
schemas are provided as part of the SBS release.

To facilitate the use of UBL in an ebXML framework, the OASIS UBL
Small Business Subcommittee has worked with the OASIS ebXML
Business Process (ebBP) TC to produce a set of ebBP (also called
BPSS) 2.0 process definitions and corresponding templates.  This
allows the production of ebXML CPPA artefacts for use in
conjunction with UBL 1.0 documents, thus enabling trading partners
to specify particular document subsets like the SBS in ebXML
transactions.

This collaboration, including a minor modification of ebBP 2.0,
was made possible by close cooperation between the two OASIS
technical committees and by the lucky coincidence of their
schedules for OASIS Committee Specifications.  The SBS artefacts
supporting ebXML implementation are included in the SBS package
under the title "Universal Business Process (UBP) 1.0."

The co-chairs of the UBL SBSC, Stephen Green and G. Ken Holman,
wish to thank the ebBP for its help in developing ebXML support in
SBS.  Thanks are due also to the UBL and ebXML user communities
for their help, ideas, and encouragement in the creation of this
set of business document and process definitions.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC