"REQUEST TO ACS TO ASSIST WITH SINGLE AS 4590 ADDRESS FORMAT"Wed 22 Nov 2006 - NOTIFY ACS OF AS 4590 TWO XML ADDRESS FORMAT Please submit your comments by 17:00 Fri 24 Nov 2006 to Stephen GOULD
08:55 Wed 22 Nov 2006 REF:A9CAAEN1 Y/R: eCommerce Standards TO: Philip ARGY cc Members of Parliament President Local Government AUSTRALIAN COMPUTER SOCIETY Interested Parties Express Post CN 1966327 PO Box Q534 Sydney NSW 1230 Dear Philip - I write to you as the President of the Australian Computer Society [ACS] and former Chair of the ACS XML & Ecommerce Special Interest Group, to inform you that at the recent OASIS XML Conference it was revealed that there are two XML Address formats in the Australian eCommerce Standards AS 4590 which is issued by Standard Australia. A Why Issue has to be addressed quickly B Draft email to ACS members C Proposed Timetable to clarify Standards D Next Steps A WHY ISSUE HAS TO BE ADDRESSED QUICKLY I have suggested to OASIS Australia that they notify the Attendees at their Conferences of this issue and invite those attendees to participate in an eCommittee with Standards Australia to remediate this issue quickly. However this issue is also extremely important for ACS members. The reason why this issue has to be clarified quickly include: 1 32 Victorian Councils have issued a tender for a Council Vendor Integration Project that stipulates the use of AS 4590 for the electronic interchange of information between Bizdex and the 32 different Council Systems BizDex is a system developed for the Australian Wheat Board [AWB] and sponsored by a number of US Companies including IBM, Microsoft and Intel - these sponsors may have a vested interest in the double standards issue That tender requires an implementation date of between 01 Jan - Mar 2007 2 The Port of Melbourne have published an eCommunity EOI - there are 38 Port eCommunities in Australia with the same requirement as the Port of Melbourne 3 The problems identified by Benjamin ANSON Ports eConsultant to the Federal Government eCommerce Public Enquiry "Best Practice Model: Building Consumer Confidence in eCommerce B DRAFT EMAIL TO ACS MEMBERS This is a draft email that you may be prepared to distribute to ACS members to: 1 make them aware of the issue 2 invite them to participate in assisting clarify the Standard 3 promote the adoption of a single XML Address format AS 4590 Draft email: "It has come to the ACS attention that there are two address formats in the AS 4590 XML eCommerce Standard This email is to inquire if you would be interested in participating in an Electronic Committee possibly called Standards Australia IS/11 Committee to define a single XML eCommerce Address. Your involvement would be to participate Electronically and review the proposed single Address Format. If you are interested in participating electronically in this proposed reconvened Standards Australia Electronic IS/11 Committee Standard please email Michael LANGDON at Standards Australia and copy in Stephen GOULD who has volunteered to be the Electronic Committee Secretary. The email addresses are: Michael LANGDON Michael.Langdon@standards.org.au Stephen GOULD stephen.gould@halisa.net Information required for email response: Subj: AS 4590 - Single XML Address Preferred Name: Family Name: Postcode: As you may recall from when you were briefed as the Halisa Intellectual Property Lawyer for the RUBAC Electronic Information Interchange [EII] Management methodology, Halisa Consultants were commissioned by the British Standards Institute [BSI] to carry out a survey on how to improve the BSI Committee Management process. The Report to BSI outlined how the RUBAC EII code could assist BSI not only reduced the 14,000,000 pieces of paper produced each year as part of the BSI Committee process but also provide a far more effective Management Process for its Committees. The report to BSI identified how by using email and standard Agenda templates a more effective Committee Management process could be implemented. Whilst Standards Australia and other Australian Associations have been reluctant to consider the Electronic Committee Information [ECIM] process it has been adopted by the Open Interchange Consortium [OIC], the SME eBusiness Management Services [SMEEMS] and trialled by ebXML Australia before it disbanded and several Volunteer Sports Associations eg Pittwater RSL Football Club The ECIM process should be used to clarify AS 4590 and more important will be of value for Australian Councils if they want to avoid the problem faced by many US Local Government Councils of huge un-wieldly Committee Information processes. Here is a link to the McAllen City web-site that warns that a high speed downloads is required because many of the Council Minutes exceed 50 Mb ! (Here is another link to the McAllen City Minutes in case the web location above is changed) C PROPOSED TIMETABLE As the Victorian 32 Local Government Consortium has a very clearly defined timetable I am proposing that, as an interim step, the Sinclair Knight Merz [SKM] Consultant for that project advise the Councils and whoever was awarded the Contract that the Complex Address of AS 4590 is always used for all transactions The proposed timetable to clarify the single address format is: ACTION WHEN WHO 1 e-mail Call for Participation sent 17:00 Mon 27 Nov PA 2 e-mail Response required 17:00 Fri 01 Dec All 3 Set up distribution list 17:00 Mon 04 Dec SGG 4 review AS 4590 Address Format 17:00 Fri 08 Dec All including comparisons with International EDIFACT Standard 5 Draft single Address AS 4590 17:00 Fri 15 Dec All 6 Confirm single Address AS 4590 17:00 Thu 21 Dec All D NEXT STEPS Philip - I believe that this is a timetable that the Australian Computer Industry will be able to meet if we are to avoid the US Situation where the US Federal Government legislated in 1996 for the use of ANSI-X12. The OIC has received a number of responses from Members of Parliament who may be prepared to pass legislation to protect Rate-Payers and Tax-payers from "stacked" Standards Committees. Please confirm if you agree with this timetable and process to provide a single XML Address format for the Australian AS 4590 XML eCommerce Standard. I look forward to working with you to resolve this important issue for Electronic Commerce in Australia Regards Stephen GOULD Senior Partner Halisa International Network 10:36 W 2006/11/22 Syd 2065 E: stephen.gould@halisa.net M: 0416-009-468 W: Stephen GOULD's Background in eCommerce