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Subject: [wsrp-wsia] Internationalization, localization
- From: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
- To: wsrp-wsia@lists.oasis-open.org
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 04:54:39 -0700
Title: Internationalization,
localization
Due to a thread on the tm-published subjects list, it came
to my attention that there is another fairly significant standards
organization in this unfortunately burgeoning field, which has
promulgated yet another new e-commerce catalog of Products and
Services, the Universal Standard Products and Services Classification
(UNSPSC) which has had a Topic Map rendered for it. The url below is
to the standard, not the XTM.
http://www.eccma.org/download/11UNSPSC.zip
However, it turns out that this spec is legally owned by the
UN:
Just a word of warning as you have
obviously not been reading the Diffuse
newsletters recently :-(
There has been a lot of argument about who controls the UNSPCS over
the last
few months, and since the beginning of this month the standard has
clearly
been under the control of the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP)
rather than ECCMA. A new body is being set up to manage the list.
All
references to the list should now be made through their website at
www.un-spsc.net
Martin Bryan
Technical Manager, The Diffuse Project
Do you know anything about this Monica?
However, on a more useful and less contentious note, all this led
me to an actually International Guide to Internationalization /
Localization
http://www.diffuse.org/IntLocGuide.html
I can't vouch for either ECCMA, (which includes H-P, SAP, Lucent,
Oracle and a gazillion others but does not include on their current
list of members IBM, Sun, Microsoft, and a number of other notables I
won't bother listing), or diffuse.org, though it looks at a completely
cursory level as if diffuse is a bit more unbiased, but in any event,
it is best to keep apprised of such things, especially those who have
some interest in promoting UDDI as the de facto look up list for web
services.
Since diffuse is connected to IST. and this appears to be the
European Community's equivalent to OASIS, I am including their url
below:
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/home.html
Ciao,
Rex
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Rex Brooks
Starbourne Communications Design
1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA 94702 *510-849-2309
http://www.starbourne.com * rexb@starbourne.com
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