OASIS is conducting a public review of the ebXML Messaging Transport Binding for Digital Signature Services version 1.0, which has been approved by the consortium's Digital Signature Services eXtended (DSS-X) Technical Committee as a Committee Draft. The specification defines an alternative transport binding for the DSS Core standard that uses the OASIS ebXML Messaging Service. This profile is compatible with ebMS 2.0 and 3.0. The public review is open from 30 May to 29 August 2008. OASIS seeks feedback from potential users, developers and all other interested parties.

Webswell Inc. releases the Webswell telConnect 2.0 Enterprise Edition solution that allows Communications Providers (CP) to migrate onto the BT Openreach WLR3. By 2010, all Communications Providers are required to migrate to WLR3 platform in order to make the wholesale line rental services automated and transparent. Webswell telConnect is intended to help them to reduce the complexity and risks or that transition by introducing the B2B gateway that communicates with BR Openreach WLR3 Equivalence Management Platform (EMP) on one side and CP's back-end systems on the other side.

Dave Berry of the UK National e-Science Centre (NeSC) writes, "At HC2008 I was introduced to the XDS standard for Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (not to be confused with several other uses of the XDS acronym). XDS is a profile of the ebXML standards for registries and other related standards to specify a system for sharing medical documents. The important point is that XDS is supported by several major vendors and has been deployed in clinical health systems in several countries. As far as I'm aware, it has not made any impact in the grid world.

Netbay has expanded its business to provide e-payment gateway support to freight forwarders. The company uses Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language (ebXML) to connect back-office operations of five government agencies to e-Customs as part of the National Single Windows initiative.

Pichit Viwatrujirapong, managing director of Netbay, an e-logistics gateway provider, said the company will focus on providing e-payment services to freight forwarders, shipping agents, traders and other import- and export-related related businesses.

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