ebXML began in the fall of 1999 as effort by UN/CEFACT and OASIS to initiate a worldwide project to enable the consistent use of XML for the exchange of all electronic business data.

The ebXML Initiative was an 18-month endeavor in which industry groups, standards bodies, vendors, consultants and users from virtually every continent on the globe participated. In May 2001, ebXML met its deadline by delivering a suite of specifications, white papers and other related documents.

This ebXML Initiative Archive contains:

• information on the original Project Teams that developed ebXML,
• mail list archives for the group
• presentations and documents from Sep 1999-May 2001meetings,
• "Enabling Electronic Business with ebXML" white paper,
• ebXML Overview slide presentation in Powerpoint and Acrobat
• ebXML Architecture slide presentation in Powerpoint