The National Institutes of Health has upgraded its client for electronically
checking grant information by way of using the Electronic Business
Extensible Markup Language (ebXML). The NIH Office of Extramural Research upgraded the client, which is designed to allow external systems interact with NIH's eReceipts Exchange servers through a Web service interface.

See: 
Government Computer News
NIH Office of Extramural Research

To OASIS members, Public Announce Lists:

The OASIS ebXML Registry TC has recently approved the following errata as Committee Drafts and approved the package for public review:

ebXML Registry Services and Protocols Version 3.0
ebXML Registry Information Model Version 3.0

The public review starts today, 24 April 2007, and ends 9 May 2007. This is an open invitation to comment.

To OASIS members, Public Announce Lists:

The OASIS ebXML Messaging Services TC 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 1, Core Features

The public review starts today, 2 May 2007, and ends 17 May 2007. This specification was previously submitted for a 60-day public review on 12 May 2006 [1]; this 15-day review is limited in scope to changes made from the previous review.

The UN/CEFACT Techniques and Methodologies Group (TMG) has announced the release of the "UN/CEFACT Core Components Technical Specification (UN/CEFACT CCTS)" Version 3 for a Second Public Review.  The Core Components Technical Specification defines meta models and rules necessary for describing the structure and contents of conceptual and physical/logical data models, process models, and information exchange models. The CCTS is dependent on the Unified Modelling Language (UML) in terms of how it is expressed in this specification, but does not require UML in its implementation.