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    >   Anything relating to business interactions makes more sense in OASIS
    > than in W3C.  "OASIS and the United Nations jointly sponsor ebXML, a 
    > global framework for e-business data exchange."

It ought to be a scandal if the UN is sponsoring a world standard that
many computer users are forbidden to implement.  Perhaps we can pursue
that angle.  Can anyone find out which part of the UN is doing this?


