A first draft of a document providing UN/CEFACT - UBL NDR comparison
and analysis has been posted to the document repository of the OASIS
Universal Business Language (UBL) Technical Committee by Michael
Grimley. Specifically, it provides a comparison and analysis of
Version 2.0 of the UN/CEFACT and UBL NDRs. Version 2.0 of the UN/CEFACT
XML Naming and Design Rules technical specification. "allows users to
identify, capture and maximize the re-use of business information
expressed as XML schema components. It ensures consistent and efficient
use of XML in a business-to-business and application-to-application
environment. It can be utilized wherever business information is being
shared or exchanged among and between enterprises and government
agencies worldwide using XML schema." Mark Crawford (SAP Standards
Architect) wrote in a posting to the XML Developers List (26-April-2007):
"The CCTS standards stack consists of CCTS. It requires the use of
no other specification -- UN/CEFACT or other -- for implementation.
The UN/CEFACT CCTS standards stack however does have a defined XML NDR
as part of the stack - for use by UN/CEFACT. Further CCTS does not
require any syntax specific set of rules. In fact its power is in its
syntax neutrality and its context mechanisms... there are [several NDRs]
and I am not sure I would include OAGi 9 at this point. The US Department
of the Navy for example has their own CCTS NDR. What is interesting
is that many SDOs have realized -- driven in large part by their
membership -- that it makes no sense to have different flavors of NDRs
and that yes there is real value in being able to auto generate schema
from the business models. OAGi, GS1, CIDX, ACORD, UN/CEFACT, UBL,
RosettaNet, AIAG, and others have come together to work collaboratively
on the next set of UN/CEFACT XML NDRs that will serve as a convergence
point for all of these organizations."
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