1. CIO
Magazine: Standards Carpet the Internet
"'Customers make a huge investment in
technologies, not only in the cost of the
product but in training too. Standards give
that comfort level to CIOs, [making them
feel] that they haven't taken a chance on a
particular technology.'" (12/1/99)
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2. CNET
News.com: Standards Groups Reach E-business
Accord
"At issue is the need to build an XML-based
communications protocol that serves as a
common format for businesses to swap
information with each other." (2/22/01)
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3. Dedica
Project
The main objective of the DEDICA project is
the rapid and cost effective provision of
EDI certificate management infrastructure to
EDI users.
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4. e
centre UK
The Association for Standards and Practices
in Electronic Trade promotes UK excellence
in electronic commerce by exploiting value
from the business data standards from EAN
International and the information exchange
standards driven by the market.
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5. ebXML
Joint initiative of the United Nations and
OASIS. The vision of ebXML is to enable a
global electronic marketplace where
enterprises of any size and in any
geographical location can conduct business
with each other through exchange of
XML-based messages.
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6. FpML.org
FpML (Financial products Markup Language) is
a new protocol to enable e-commerce
activities in the field of financial
derivatives. It is based on XML (Extensible
Markup Language), the standard meta-language
for describing data shared between
applications.
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7. Open
Financial Exchange (OFX)
The Open Financial Exchange is a unified
specification for the electronic exchange of
financial data between financial
institutions, business and consumers via the
Internet.
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8. Organization
for the Advancement of Structured
Information Standards (OASIS)
A non-profit, international consortium that
creates interoperable industry
specifications based on public standards
such as XML and SGML.
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9. Responsible
Electronic Communications Alliance (RECA)
This organization's goal is to create and
promote "best practices" for companies
involved in online marketing by creating
far-reaching new standards to make online
commerce an easier and less time-consuming
experience for Net users.
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10. RosettaNet
An independent, self-funded, non-profit
consortium dedicated to the development and
deployment of standard electronic business
interfaces.
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11. Uniform
Code Council
Takes a global leadership role in
establishing and promoting multi-industry
standards for product identification and
related electronic communication.
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12. United
Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and
Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT)
The focus of UN/CEFACT is the worldwide
facilitation of international transactions,
through the simplification and harmonization
of procedures and information flows.
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13. Universal
Description, Discovery, and Integration of
Business for the Web (UDDI)
Industry initiative creating a
platform-independent, open framework for
describing services, discovering businesses,
and integrating business services using the
Internet, as well as an operational registry
that is available today.
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14. World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Organization developing interoperable
technologies (specifications, guidelines,
software, and tools) to lead the Web to its
full potential as a forum for information,
commerce, communication, and collective
understanding.
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