CompTIA Provides Global Perspective to RosettaNet.LOMBARD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)Aug. 9, 1999-- European Review of RosettaNet Proposal Prompts Suggestions The Computing Technology Industry Association's (CompTIA) global Electronic Commerce Standards Board (ECSB ECSB European Council for Small Business ), an e-commerce standards-setting body, has reviewed the RosettaNet standards framework and provided the RosettaNet Consortium with over 230 comments and questions, with particular emphasis on implementations outside of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . The ECSB, which reviewed all of the 42 RosettaNet Partner Interface Processes (PIPs) and the implementation framework, focused its comments on regulatory, legal, revenue, privacy and tax guidelines faced by companies conducting business in multiple countries. Specific comments concerned the inability to use an ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. framework among large and small partners outside of the US, standard identification protocols such as the DUNS number that are not prevalent in Europe, Asia and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. and the requirement for UCC/EAN GTIN GTIN Global Trade Item Number (RosettaNet XML e-commerce) GTIN Global Trade Identification Number (GS1) GTIN Gene Therapy Information Network numbers that are not sufficient to uniquely identify trade globally. The review also addressed problems communicating name and address purchase information across country boundaries, requirements of identification of country of origin and destination within the information technology fulfillment chain. "Over the last five years we've gained significant expertise in developing and implementing process, technology and data standards within the IT supply chain," said Reiner Schaaf, director of electronic commerce for Computer 2000 and chair of the CompTIA Europe EC standards board. "As an organization, we need to support RosettaNet in its global initiative through our extensive and detailed feedback on their specifications." "We recognize the growth of the Internet and the value of CompTIA in accelerating the electronic commerce initiatives of RosettaNet," said Monica Wong, systems manager for electronic commerce at Computacenter. "By providing RosettaNet with this feedback, we hope to establish global standards that can be embraced by the industry of the future and to validate the relevance of these standards to business priorities today." "CompTIA's initiative in reviewing the RosettaNet standards and analyzing the technology framework and model will help achieve a global solution," said Colin Mason Colin Victor James Mason is an Australian journalist, author and politician who was elected to the Australian Senate at the 1977 election as a senator for New South Wales, joining with Don Chipp (Victoria) in the first accession of the Australian Democrats to the Senate. , general manager of Trustmarque. "Using a single standard for message protocols will help pave PAVE Cardiology A clinical trial–Post AV Node Ablation Evaluation the way for many players, both large and small, to implement interactive and real-time supply chain solutions." "This is an opportull do business in Europe." "CompTIA membein the future." Attendees of the ECSB meeting, held July 27 and 28 in Gourock, Scotland, included Bertelsmann Distribution Financial Corporation, Compaq, Computacenter, Computer 2000, Hewlett-Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Ingram-Micro, Lotus Development Corp, Microsoft, Sony Europe, and 3Com, among others. Formed in 1989 by the members of CompTIA, a not-for-profit trade organization serving the needs of more than 7,500 member companies, the ECSB has a successful track record of establishing and promoting collaboratively defined business and technology standards that simplify business-to-business interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. . To date, nearly every major industry player has adopted CompTIA-established e-commerce standards. CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association See CompTIA. , is a 17 year-old association representing over 7,500 computer hardware and software manufacturers, distributors, retailers, resellers, VARs, system integrators and training, service, telecommunications and Internet companies. In addition to providing a unified voice for the industry in the areas of public policy, workforce development and electronic commerce standards, CompTIA certifies information technology and service professionals with its widely adopted and vendor-neutral A+(TM), Network+(TM) and Certified Document Imaging Architech(TM) (CDIA See CompTIA. ) certification programs. Headquartered in Lombard, Ill., the association's World Wide Web address is www.comptia.org. One Industry. One Voice. Leadership advancing the global computing industry. |
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