Re: Article on the G7 call to digitize trade

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

Yes, thanks to the Baseline folks for bringing light to this.

Thankfully, the UBL Transportation Subcommittee 
members are actively involved in regional 
projects such as the Peppol Logistics project 
that was launched last December in this meeting:

https://www.fritilmeld.dk/peppol-logistics

Already the UBL semantic library and 
serialization syntax is used at the heart of the 
Peppol 4-corner model for procurement in Europe 
(including France, Germany, Italy, and the UK), 
Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand.

Japan has announced its recommendation also to use Peppol for procurement.

With UBL also being chosen by the US Federal 
Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Business Payments 
Coalition, the semantic library will be at the 
heart of a US-centric 4-corner-model network with 
accommodation for cross-border trade with Canada. 
Their semantics starting point was the Peppol use 
of the European CEN semantic specifications.

So, all G7 countries already have or soon will 
have an awareness of and experience with OASIS UBL for procurement.

Since 2013 the OASIS Standard UBL semantic 
library has included transportation documents and 
has been used in various pilot projects. This is 
from OASIS UBL 2.1 which was internationally 
standardized as ISO/IEC 19845:2015 (the UBL 2.3 
Call for Consensus is about to be sent out for 
final approval of our latest version of UBL as an OASIS Standard):

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.1/UBL-2.1.html#S-INTERMODAL-FREIGHT-MANAGEMENT

With the advent of the Peppol Logistics project, 
UBL is well positioned both technically (the rich 
semantic expression) and practically (the 
existing worldwide expertise in the use of and the mapping to/from UBL).

The UBL Transportation Subcommittee is actively 
preparing work products related to the mapping of 
other logistics data formats to and from UBL. It 
is expected this will equip existing UBL experts 
(access points) in corners 2 and 3 of the 
4-corner model with meeting their client 
requirements for transportation and logistics. 
Having more expertise and more energy on the 
subcommittee will help progress the work more 
quickly and with even higher quality.

I hope interested parties in transportation and 
logistics will consider joining the UBL committee 
and contributing to the work of the Transportation Subcommittee.

Things are only just getting started and OASIS is 
well positioned to make a big worldwide impact 
again as it has done already with procurement. 
Nurturing awareness of our work is critical at this point in time.

Thanks, Chet, for your post!

. . . . . . . Ken

p.s. Chet and John, I'm expecting this email to 
bounce on the Ethereum OP list because I am not a 
member ... would one of you please forward this? Thanks!

At 2021-05-28 17:58 -0400, Chet Ensign wrote:
> Members of the UBL TC and the Ethereum OP,
>
> I am honestly shocked to read that just 0.1% of 
> bills of lading are issued electronically. That 
> was the stat that got my attention, and 
> apparently the attention of the G7 digital and 
> technology ministers who announced a framework 
> to push nations and businesses to get on the 
> ball, eliminate legal barriers and get 
> electronic trade going. The article I read may 
> be interesting 
> -<https://www.gtreview.com/news/fintech/exporters-have-12-18-months-to-prepare-as-g7-paves-way-for-trade-digitisation/>https://www.gtreview.com/news/fintech/exporters-have-12-18-months-to-prepare-as-g7-paves-way-for-trade-digitisation/. 
> Thanks to the Baseline folks for spotting that 
> one. I'm sure you'll all find it interesting.
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