ebXML Asia Committee starts ebXML interoperability 
certification program and certificates 12 
organizations

Bangkok, Thailand; 8 August 2003 – ebXML Asia Committee 
announced starting of ebXML interoperability 
certification program and issued ebXML interoperability 
certification on ebXML Message Service specification 2.0, 
including basic functions and reliable messaging, for 12 
companies and organizations passed the interoperability 
test.Interoperability is one of key issues to realize 
Internet based B2B eBusiness using multi- vendor 
implementations,even across countries.  ebXML Message 
Service is designed for B2B communication and its 
reliable messaging function is to guarantee message 
delivery such as arrival of a business message sent from 
one company to another,preservation of message order and 
elimination of duplicated arrival of business messages.

The goal of the ebXML ASIA Committee interoperability 
certification is to promote ebXML through the 
certification of interoperability among ebXML Asia 
Committee members’ products. The certificate includes 
such information as "Class" which specifies the ebXML 
specification to be covered and "Level" which specifies 
the test categories. ebXML Asia Committee 
interoperability test is performed by the 
Interoperability Task Group (ITG) and the 
interoperability certification is issued by ebXML ASIA 
committee. And, the result of test and certification is 
announced on the ebXML Asia’s homepage 
(www.ebxmlasia.org). 

The ebXML Asia Committee certificates the following 12 
organizations:
 - CECID, The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR, 
   China)
 - CrimsonLogic Pte Ltd (Singapore)
 - Fujitsu Limited (Japan)
 - GCOM Information Service Co., Ltd (Chinese Taipei)
 - Hitachi, Ltd. (Japan)
 - Institute for Innovative IT, Kasetsart University 
   (Thailand)
 - Innodigital Co., Ltd. (Korea)
 - KTNET (Korea)
 - NEC Corporation (Japan)
 - POSDATA (Korea)
 - Samsung SDS (Korea)
 - SKLSE (State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering), 
   Wuhan University (China)


ITG soon initiates the 3rd round of ebXML 
Interoperability test, which will cover security related 
test items of ebXML Message Service Specification. 
For more information, please contact Secretariat of ITG 
(swlim@kiec.or.kr).

About ebXML Asia Committee
ebXML Asia Committee (www.ebxmlasia.org) is a regional 
committee jointly initiated by the Electronic Commerce 
Promotion Council of Japan (ECOM) of Japan, the Korea 
Institute for Electronic Commerce (KIEC) of Korea and the 
Taipei Computer Association of Chinese Taipei. The 
Committee was established in December 2000 to promote 
ebXML in Asia, to jointly deal with ebXML work through 
the cooperation among Asian countries and to facilitate 
electronic commerce in the Asian region.  With the 
gradual increase of membership, there are currently more 
than 24 organizational members from 11 regions of Asia 
Pacific (Australia, China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, 
Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, 
and Thailand).  The Committee leadership is represented 
by the Steering Committee, which includes Chair (Hisanao 
Sugamata of ECOM), Vice-chair (Frank Lin of TCA), 
Secretariat (KIEC) and two organizations (last meeting 
host and next meeting host).

About ITG of ebXML Asia Committee
ITG (Interoperability Task Group) of ebXML Asia Committee 
is a sub task group of ebXML Asia Committee.  The ITG, 
jointly chaired by Mr. Masahiko Narita of Fujitsu Limited 
and Ms. Jinee Lee of Innodigital, aims to promote ebXML 
standards by proving the interoperability of ebXML 
specifications through actual tests.  Currently, more 
than 14 member organizations of ebXML Asia Committee are 
participating in the ITG.  The ITG started its testing on 
messaging services and plans to extend its testing scope 
into Security, Registry & Repository and Business Process.