Karl F. Best
OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
karl.best@oasis-open.org  http://www.oasis-open.org

OASIS is greatly interested in web services, in particular where that topic
relates to e-commerce. OASIS has been involved with standards for e-commerce
for some time now, has a number of technical committees doing work in that
area, and sees the potential for some very valuable colllaboration with W3C.
As both organizations see the value of this work for their respective
members and the industry as a whole, and both organizations have much to
contribute, we should work together to achive these common goals.

For the past year and a half, OASIS has been a co-sponsor, with United
Nations CEFACT, of the ebXML initiative which will complete the first
version of its work in May 2001 and deliver specifications for

* Business Process Methodology
* Technical Architecture
* Core Components
* Transport/Routing and Packaging
* Registry and Repository
* Trading Partners
* Security

OASIS and UN/CEFACT are currently making plans for the continuation of this
work after the May completion; OASIS will be creating a number of technical
committees to continue various pieces of this work.

In addition, OASIS has technical committees already doing work in the
following areas:

* Security Services
* Business Transactions
* Registry & Repository
* Customer Information

OASIS sees the overlap between our existing e-commerce work and the ideas
sketched out for W3C web services as a great opportunity to work together.
We have already seen how such collaberation can work: the ebXML Messaging
team has integrated SOAP into its transport specification, and there is
bi-directional communication between the ebXML team and the W3C WG.

OASIS would like to see formal relationships established between the W3C web
services groups and other organizations, OASIS and others, who are doing
similar work.