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Open Forum for Standards DevelopersNew York

June 20-21, 2006 Presented byMark Palmer

Vice Chair of UN/CEFACT

International Cooperation on eBusiness Standards

(extract for UN/CEFACT Discussions – Sept. 2007)

Open Forum for Standards Developers June 20-21, 2006

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Background

Many, overlapping eBusiness standards initiatives Too many standards and lack of commonality in use Industry and government expending critical resources

to monitor and influence multiple efforts Industry consortia agreed to work on improvements

— eBusiness Standards Convergence (eBSC) Forum— workshops and teams to address specific barriers

Common representation of coded lists Service Oriented Architectures Alternate Methods for Developing Message Building

Blocks and Management of Complexity


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Forum

eBusiness Standards Convergence (eBSC) Forum (2004-2006)

Purpose: encourage coordination and convergence Neutral forum for industry, government and SDOs to:

— assess current state of delivery and use— define actions to improve this situation— optimize delivery and accelerate use

Deliver results to organizations developing or using eBusiness standards

— some results marginal impact: representation of code lists— others got traction: capabilities and standards registry

Success required commitment and ongoing advocacy


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Barriers to Progress Lack of oversight and coordination among SDOs Ineffective harmonization / convergence processes Consolidated industry mandates, strategies, commitment

and leadership often missing Competition (real & perceived) between SDOs Perception that convergence erodes prominence Cost & time to modify / converge published specs Corporate decision makers apprehensive of further

investments in “infrastructure” standards or changes Minimal direct pressure on SDOs to converge


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Observations and Challenges Camps of Interest / No Shared Roadmap

— SDOs with overlapping, parallel projects— addressing similar technical requirements and challenges

Need for a common, conceptual framework— provide a model for viewing the eBusiness space— understand requirements and available capabilities— identify overlaps, gaps and linkages— plan and coordinate projects and convergence— enable a registry of standards and SD projects.

who, what, how, when, status, access, input,…


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eBusiness Capabilities, Standards and Standards Projects Matrix

Started with common concepts for first version Collected examples for testing and refinement Presented results to industry and SDOs

— May 2005 workshop at NIST, with ANSI – link to NSSN ISO IEC ITU UN/ECE MoU on eBusiness Standards

— agreement on need for de jure and consortia initiatives Aerospace Industry Association (AIA) – trial use

— March 2006 report: effective basis for industry planning Initiating work on prototype federated registry

Interest in Common Framework Industry Questionnaire - Q11. Is this model of eBusiness capabilities “stack”

useful and sufficient for providing a generic framework for describing what is needed? Summary of Responses: Yes, general support for the generic model; many organizations have ideas on modifications/additions.

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XML and Web Services Area

Generalized Processes

Specialized Processes

Generalized Content

Specialized Content

Messaging

Service Description Language

Presentation Description

Transaction Patterns

Transaction Instance

Repository

Registry / Directory

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Capabilities Framework: Purpose

Framework for standards developers to communicate effectively eBusiness-standards-related concepts among one another to promote more effective standards development, cross-industry standards collaboration and convergence, and standards adoption and deployment.

Framework for users of eBusiness standards to understand the available standards and relevant initiatives and to develop industry Roadmaps for the adoption and deployment of eBusiness standards.

Basis for federated repository of information on eBusiness standards initiatives with which standards implementers can approach planning,evaluation, selection, implementation and deployment.


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Initial Capabilities Framework

Business Operational View Methodology and Overall Conceptual Models

Modeling methodology, patterns, process modeling Business Content for Business Messages

Content, assembly and identification Agreements

Business and technical contracts Functional Service View

Service description Syntax

Language, extensibility Application Transport and Network

Transport, messaging, quality of service Conformance and Interoperability

Test specifications, test suites, certification & accreditation processes


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Capabilities Framework: Audience

eBusiness standards organizations and contributors Industry eBusiness standards initiatives and contributors eBusiness standards implementers Users of eBusiness standards

Capabilities Framework: Example Each functional area template includes:

— Functional category, definition, examples and placeholder for organization committee or working group

Standards Area

Definition Examples Org Comte/ Working Groups

Security This protective layer spans a wide range of abstractions from basic encryption, authentication and authorization on the core XML layer to non-repudiation and security policies in the business process layer.

SAML, WS-Security

OASIS, IETF


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Capabilities Framework: Functional Areas

Methodologies Business Operational View Business Content for Business Messages Agreements Functional Service View Conformance and Interoperability Framework expanded with input from SDOs and

experts (refer to spreadsheet for details)


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AIA Use of Capabilities Matrix for Adoption of eBusiness Standards

Business

requirements

Business

requirements BusinessSolutions

Scenarios

SolutionsSMC

Companies

EEIC

PSC

eBSG

EMC

AIA eBusiness

Implementation

Guidebook

FrameworkComponents

AIA eBusinessInteroperability

Framework

New

Interoperability

Requirements

TrackBoostAero

SAML

STEP

PLCS

GECA

XBRL

RFID

Monitorexternaldevelopment

Participate inexternaldevelopment

Adoptexisting standard

AIAdevelopment Candidate

UDEF

ClickableGTPA

PM/EVM

EEIC

EEIC

EEIC

EEIC

The eBSG approves candidate standards as part of the AIA framework

X12EDI

GTPATemplate

Adopted

SupplierUID

eBSG eBSG

eBSG eBSG


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Model Representing Interoperable eBusiness Landscape of the Solution sets neededModel Representing Interoperable eBusiness Landscape of the Solution sets needed

Scenarios

Process models

Information content/componentsClassification schemesComponent libraries

Enterprise data and metadata

Reference dataIdentifiers

Process definition mechanisms Information definition mechanisms

Representation options

Transport options

Networks

Conform

ance and interoperability testing

Consraints

Contractual and regulatory

Security

Guidelines

Registry/R

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Semantics - Terminology

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17

11

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Service assem

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7

29

22

Physical representation 20

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DataAssembly

16 19

23

Service definition mechanisms 1826

28

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nn is row number in eBSC matrix

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eBusiness Capabilities, Standards and Standards Projects Matrix

eBSC matrix is a tool for:— structuring / illuminating eBusiness standards space— convergence in delivering needed standards

— developing and executing coordinated strategies

Could be a catalyst and resource for SDOs strategic planning and industry roadmapping => eBGT

Prototyping starts in October 2007

— resources secured

— 4-5 SDOs participating

— first: collecting and posting; then “polling” and federated

Success will require commitment from participating SDOs

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