The official technical reports and white papers to accompany the ebXML standard from OASIS and the United Nations. These reports are the companion volume to ebXML: The Technical Specifications, the official ebSML 1.0 standard. ebXML will be at the heart of tomorrow's most important electronic business and business-to-business--systems--streamlining trading relationships, simplifying cross-enterprise communications, and making it possible to extend any business process across any supply or demand chain.