XML Zooms Onto Gov't Tech Agenda. A new law seeks to help ailing U.S. automakers by tapping the Internet as a way to streamline their systems. XML could be the technology that pulls everything together. By Lia Steakley. [Wired News]
The new bill (H.R. 2733), which became public law on Nov. 5 2002, sets aside 40 million dollars to be used over three years to get integration efforts going. The Enterprise Integration Act 2002 authorizes the National Institute of Standards and Technology to work with major manufacturing industries on an initiative of standards development and implementation for electronic enterprise integration.
AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES- In order to carry out this Act, the Director may work with industry, trade associations, professional societies, and others as appropriate--
(1) to raise awareness in the United States, including awareness by businesses that are majority owned by women, minorities, or both, of enterprise integration activities in the United States and abroad, including by the convening of conferences;
(2) on the development of enterprise integration roadmaps;
(3) to support the development, testing, promulgation, integration, adoption, and upgrading of standards related to enterprise integration including application protocols; and
(4) to provide technical assistance and, if necessary, financial support to small- and medium-sized businesses that set up pilot projects in enterprise integration.
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