eCo Specification Bridges E-commerce Language Barrier
D. Geller - December 8, 1999

Event Summary

CommerceNet, an industry working group focused on E-commerce, has issued a specification for a protocol that can be used to increase interoperability between E-commerce partners. The specification, dubbed eCo, defines the ways that businesses post information about themselves. Using eCo, a business could post a description of itself in a standard form that could be found via searching, both by people and by intelligent agents. Information posted in eCo format will allow searchers to find companies, and will then enable communications between the companies...