| Open Standards |
| Email is a great success. By using standard
protocols, and connected in a standard way to a huge
network, we are able to transfer information all over the
world between organizations and computer systems that are
very different in culture, location, and size. The
Internet email system is based on simple, standard
protocols. Email is a great model for developing further
protocols for communication. The one primary problem preventing communication of the basic business documents today is lack of a standard format for electronic data. Some standards, such as XML are being developed which may aid in developing some standard for transfer of invoices, but currently no specific standard has been implemented across a wide range of systems for basic business documents. I believe there needs to be an initiative to develop standard business document formats, based on XML. There should be standards for Invoices, Statements, and Orders etc. Several projects are currently developing such standards, and it is my intension to follow and implement the standards as far as practical. There is a list of other B2B XML standards projects on my B2B Resources Page. |
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