Should ebMS TC join OASIS Blue?

I'd like to suggest to the ebMS
TC that we consider aligning ourselves with the OASIS Blue member
section, and is
composed of a number of OASIS TC's working together to "capitalize on, profile and extend existing
electronic commerce and data exchange standards" to "permit interoperable smart energy grids, and those
plugged into them,
to advance sustainability and economic opportunity, by applying lessons
from the Internet and electronic commerce to networks of energy use,
demand and generation."

OASIS Blue specifically calls out ebXML and Web services standards like
WS-Security as solution standards Smart Grid interoperability and
security.  The Smart Grid would be a huge market for ebMS and is the
current focus of much US funding by the administration.

A short white paper of the OASIS Blue initiative can be found at
http://www.oasis-open.org/resources/white-papers/blue/

OASIS Blue intends to synergize a range of OASIS standards to basically
bootstrap the informational interoperability of the Smart Grid using
the proven key eCommerce standards such as:

  
 Our oBIX Technical Committee (TC)
produces specifications for interacting with the smart buildings and
with other energy using technologies. 

  
 Our Forest
Industries TC works to facilitate the flow of information from forest
managers to their customers. 

  
 Our pioneering
eCommerce standards such as ebXML, BPEL, and UDDI, have empowered
businesses and consumers to make better economic decisions, achieving
efficiencies and driving innovation for the economy as a whole. 

  
 Our fine-grained
security standards, including SAML, WS-Security, and XACML, enable
highly scalable solutions that allow high confidence in who your
partners are, who you're communicating with, and what authorization
they have. 

Basically leveraging standards like
oBIX, ebXML, WS-* standards like WS-Security, and SAML to facilitate
Smart Grid interoperability.  OASIS
Blue brings together three seminal areas of standards work: energy,
security, and transparency.

From the white paper..

To truly respond to the grid, building
systems must become responsive
to their occupants. oBIX and other OASIS specifications will enable
competitive development of software to mediate between building-based
systems and the intelligent power grid. Open standards are the way to
incorporate business needs, household needs, and other information into
energy decisions in an interoperable manner,creating new markets.

 

http://www.oasis-blue.org/about