Interesting blog posting by Mark Morley of GXS on AS4, Cisco's implementation of AS4, and its potential as a foundational standard for cloud computing:

Cisco is the one of the first companies that I have heard of that is actively using AS4 and as with the Walmart effect caused by their AS2 supplier mandate I wonder if Cisco will help to see wider adoption of AS4 in the High Tech market space?, especially given their position in the market of setting up data centres for hosting cloud based infrastructures.

The following information was kindly provided by Martin Forsberg:

Many Swedish local authorities, county councils and government authorities have started with e-procurement. The Single Face To Industry (SFTI) is a joint effort, with representation from all three levels, on marketing and awareness activities related to electronic procurement, on development of common specifications, on encouragement of systems development and implementation, and on support to interoperability.

The following Public Review announcement was sent to OASIS members and public announce lists:

The OASIS ebXML Messaging Services Technical Committee has recently approved the following specification as a Committee Draft and approved the package for public review:

OASIS ebXML Messaging Services Version 3.0: Part 2, Advanced Features