The Australian Superannuation industry handles citizen's retirement benefits, with ~1.3T$AU under management and contribution being mandatory. Following a review of the industry, the government has decided on a number of reforms, including the moving to electronic data and payment exchange (as opposed to the current cheque and paper). It is thus mandating data, messaging and payment standards which will be introduced in a three year staged rollout.

Members of the OASIS ebXML Messaging Services TC [1] have recently approved a Special Majority Ballot [2] to advance "AS4 Profile of ebMS 3.0 Version 1.0" as a Candidate OASIS Standard (COS). The COS now enters a 60-day public review period in preparation for a member ballot to consider its approval as an OASIS Standard.

AS4 Profile of ebMS 3.0 Version 1.0
Candidate OASIS Standard 01
17 August 2012

Specification Overview:

The OASIS Energy Interoperation (EI) Version 1.0 technical specification defines EI Services and Operations, XML, Service and Operation payloads and Service operation interaction patterns. Energy Interoperation payloads can be exchanged using WSDL-based SOAP messages. For interoperability, any use of networking technologies should be profiled and standardized.

The CEN FishBizz (Integration of standards for Traceability and Sale of Seafood Products) Workshop has released the following draft CWA for public review:

CEN CWA XXXX: FishBizz Business Case — For monitoring of quality and sales of fish products