In brief: Related to the ISO/PC 295 and other OASIS efforts, there is a kickoff meeting somewhat reminiscent of the Interoperability Pledge/Summits of 2000-2002 in Geneva on April 5 related to Accounting standards. (1) If you can think of anyone who mightÂbe interested in attending, I encourage you to pass this along. If there is an effort within OASIS where accounting and audit terms or processes are part of the deliverable and information can be presented or a speaker provided, please let me know.
Related to the ISO/PC 295 effort that you so kindly have administered, I wanted to make sure you were aware of an effort under the United Nations (UN/CEFACT) to work to bring harmonization and collaboration, if not unification, between efforts like ISO/PC 295 and related efforts.
For a little background, I (representing the brand spanking new XBRL GL at the time) began collaborating with UN CEFACT 20 years ago (which had overlapping standards in place) in EDI space for shared learning and harmonization. As you may recall, there was hope at that time that ebXML was going to bring ANSI X.12 and CEFACT together, but the move from traditional EDI to XML for CEFACT was a big challenge. I worked with them to make their XML standards as good as possible for many years, and helped take over leadership of this group which competed with XBRL GL in accounting space around 5 years ago. We finally decided to being a project to rationalize the differences between CEFACT's standards and XBRL GL. (2)
I also contributed to yet another competing work, the OECD SAF-T, which has received some adoption in tax space. The project also includes SAF-T.
There are many other efforts in this space. The AICPA's Audit Data Standards were contributed to ISO/PC 295. There are legacy works from OMG (GL Profile, AR/AP Profile). There are elements within UBL that are quite relevant and the relationship between UBL and UN/CEFACT Core Components is well known.