Standards development within the Information Technology sector is harmonized with international standards development. Through the CSA Technical Committee on Information Technology (TCIT), Canadians serve as the Canadian Advisory Committee (CAC) on ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information Technology (ISO/IEC JTC1) for the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), the ISO member body for Canada and sponsor of the Canadian National Committee of the IEC. Also, as a member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Canada participates in the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (ITU-T).

This Standard supersedes CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC 14662-01 (adoption of ISO/IEC 14662:1997).

At the time of publication, ISO/IEC 14662:2004 is available from ISO and IEC in English only. CSA will publish the French version when it becomes available from ISO and IEC.

1 Scope

This International Standard specifies the framework for co-ordinating the integration of existing standards and the development of future standards for the inter-working of Open-edi Parties via Open-edi and provides a reference for those standards.

As such it serves to guide the standards work necessary to accomplish Openedi by providing the context to be used by developers of standards to ensure the coherence and integration of related standardized modelling and descriptive techniques, services, service interfaces, and protocols. This International Standard describes, through two perspectives of business transactions, significant aspects relevant to the interoperability of information technology systems used by Open-edi Parties engaging in Open edi.

The perspectives are: a) business aspects such as business information, business conventions, agreements and rules among Open-edi Parties; b) information technology aspects which are necessary in the Open-edi systems to support the execution of business transactions.

This International Standard is not an implementation specification nor is it a basis for appraising the conformance of implementations.