The maintenance and enhancement of this OASIS Standard should be of interest to ISVs seeking interoperable and standardized approaches to the configuration of heterogeneous yet interoperable software for enabling business collaboration. It should be of interest to end users concerned with automation of the management of configuration information over the lifetime of a business collaboration community. It should also be of interest to those seeking documented configurations suitable for monitoring compliance of collaborators' performance in areas such as data confidentiality, reliability, authentication, acknowledgment, and timely response.