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Overview

The Electronic Commerce Interest Group is a forum designed to allow the members to share information with the Consortium staff and other members about:

• Problems they have encountered (and proposed solutions)
• Priorities (in addressing the problems)
• Work underway in related areas
• What role, if any, the Consortium should play

While W3C's work with JEPI (closed) and the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project [P3P] has focused strongly on consumer business, it is now time to look at business-to-business [B2B] needs. From the B2B point of view, "Electronic Commerce" is not really new: among others, EDI has been around for about ten years with varying success. In the recent past, two groups have started to transfer EDI to the web, based on the recent proposed W3C recommendation XML. This can be a very important contribution to electronic commerce on the web leverage existing experience on the web. The two groups will present their work at the meeting.

Apart from that, there are already approaches to develop technologies that leverage the specific strengths of the web for new ways to do business online. From the big choice of developments, two have been picked to demonstrate what is possible.

Meeting Proposal

• Offer a common platform for both XML/EDI groups
• Observe closely developments of new approaches, offer W3C as a forum to resolve interoperability problems

Agenda

Background Reading Materials

PICS
RDF Working Group
PICS NG Working Group
First draft of the Resource Description Framework Model and Syntax specification
The independent XML/EDI group
XML/EDI at commerce.net
BSI/Beacon

What is the electronic commerce interest group? See the Electronic Commerce Interest Group Briefing Package for details (members only - the Electronic Commerce Interest Group Home Page is open to the public)