The OASIS non-profit consortium recently announced an expanded charter for its Business Document Exchange (BDX) Technical Committee and issued a Call for Participation to all those involved in this market, both public and private sector: agencies, enterprises, solution providers, consultants and researchers. E-payment actors including financial institutions, associations and payment networks are invited take part in defining an open standards framework to support the largest public e-procurement and e-invoicing initiative in the world.

From the abstract:

The main goal of this document is to describe how e-Delivery platforms of existing Large Scale Pilots (PEPPOL, SPOCS and STORK) can converge towards a single solution, which is suitable for them as well as for the new LSP e-Codex. As underlined by the European Commission the acceptance and the support coming from the industry is a very important success factor. Therefore such a e-Delivery solution should also include industry standards like ebXML in the area of B2B and ETSI REM.

 

The OASIS ebXML Messaging Services TC [1] members have produced an updated Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification for 15-day public review:

AS4 Profile of ebMS 3.0 Version 1.0
Committee Specification Draft 05 / Public Review Draft 04
21 March 2012

Specification Overview:

Primus Australia has announced it is the first retail service provider (RSP) to receive business-to-business (B2B) interoperability certification from NBN Co. [..] NBN Co employs ebXML for its gateway, which enabled Primus to develop its solution in-house, the RSP said. 

“ebXML is being adopted globally as an alternative to traditional EDI standards,” Primus Australia’s general manager of Information Services, Matthew Proctor, said in a statement [..]

 

I have a new article written for SoftXML, an Israeli software company. The new USA air traffic control system called NextGen will be based on advanced GPS technology, rather than the current radar-based approach, with weather data organized around ebXML registries. See http://www.softxml.com/854/XML-Registries-Core-of-New-U.S.-Aviation-Weather-Platform - Alan Kotok