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Electronic Commerce StandardsElectronic Commerce Standards

Bob [email protected]

Bill [email protected]

Standards Environment

• There are a significant number of standards initiatives in process - many are overlapping

• No one standard stands out as a leader

• Major players are participating in multiple standards efforts

• The process is S L O W while technology is moving F A S T . . .

Objective of Standards Organizations

• Create an open, vendor-neutral, scaleable and secure standard for conducting electronic purchasing over the internet

– lower purchasing, accounts payable, and order processing costs

– improve end-user satisfaction and channel more indirect purchases towards contracted suppliers

– for selling organizations - a key new channel for selling goods and services

Commerce Landscape

RequisitionerSelling

Organization

BuyingOrganization

PaymentAuthority

Open Buying on the Internet Reference Model OBI Technical Specifications, Version 1.1, OBI Consortium, June 1998.

Commerce Landscape

RequisitionerDistributionOrganization

BuyingOrganization

PaymentAuthority

ProductionOrganization

Buyer Sellers

Commerce Model

Browse CatalogBrowse Catalog

Request Items

Request Items ApprovalApproval Fill

OrderFill

OrderReceive

ItemsReceive

Items PayPay

SearchView itemsCheck priceCheck availability

Select ItemsCommit to purchase

Authorize purchaseVerify payment method

Confirm orderStatusShip

Check statusVerify receipt

EFTPurchase cardCredit cardCheckEDIBulk invoice

CatalogsUser Profiles Legacy IT

Orders

ServerNT vs. UNIX vs. Iron

Web ServersCGI, Servlets

DBMS: OracleODBC / JDBC

CORBA

DesktopWindows 9x

IE or NS 3.x or betterHTML, XML,

Java,Wallets

Networking / ConnectivityHTTP, SHTTP

FTPSSL

IIOP (CORBA)

Standards by Purpose

SecuritySSL, SHTTP, SHTML

SET, FIPS 46-2, X.509, FIPS 180-1

RSA Cryptosystem

Information ExchangeEDIFACT

ANSI ASC X12XML, XSL, DTD

OBI , OTPCORBA IDL

Content HTML, SHTMLXML, XSL, DTDMIME, S/MIMEJPEG, GIF, CG4,

AVI, MPEG, QuickTime

Information Exchange

• EDIFACT

• ANSI ASC X12

• ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One)

• XML, XSL, DTD

• OBI (Open Buying on the Internet)

• OTP (Open Trading Protocol)

• CORBA IDL

Standards Organizations

• W3C: http://www.w3c.org

• OBI: http://www.supplyworks.com/obi

• www.edigroup.com

• www.ecresources.com

• www.xmledi.net

• OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems): http://www.oasis-open.org

Standards Organizations (cont.)

• disa

• ASN.1 Homepage: http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/hoschka/asn1.html

• IETF: www.ietf.org

• OMG Home: http://www.omg.org

• SET: http://www.setco.org

• SET Central / RSA: http://www.rsa.com/set

Summary

• The general E-Commerce standards environment is fragmented with no apparent globally accepted formula.

• Technology is moving much faster than the standards processes.

• In general, industry won’t wait for a ubiquitous standard to surface.

Electronic Commerce StandardsElectronic Commerce Standards

Bob Onesto - [email protected]

Bill Hazard - [email protected]

(800)847-5564

Additional Standards Information: www.interware-ics.com/ecom

(to be posted 11/9/98)

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