egistry/Repository Technical Committee and is a significant contributor NIST/ITL is also working within the ebXML Project a joint project between OASIS and the United Nations body for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business UN/CEFACT the prominent business-oriented international standards organization for the discovery retrieval and use of business processes and related documents The role of NIST/ITL is to influence the quality correctness and testability of the specifications of both the OASIS and ebXML Registry/Repository Working Groups through our reference implementation of a registry and repository that is conformant to both specifications Additionally NIST/ITL facilitates cross-over discussions between OASIS and ebXML; thus helping to ensure compatibility of the specifications NIST/ITL through its leadership in developing a reference implementation that is compliant to both specifications will help ensure that both specifications are unambiguous complete and testable This work will also contribute to the compatibility of these two specifications An early indication of success is that the draft ebXML specification uses the OASIS specification as its basis The completion of these specifications will allow small- and medium-sized enterprises SMEs to make appropriate choices with regard to EC tools and applications and will allow them acc