"Ever since a debacle with ebXML (subsequently diffused) and,
later, the way the Web Services Interoperability organization (the
WS-I) selected Organization for the Advancement of Structured
Information Standards (OASIS) as the venue for 'ratifying' certain
Web services standards (as opposed to going through the more
IP-progressive World Wide Web consortium--the W3C), I've been
meaning to out OASIS for what I think it really is: a patent
shelter. ebXML, by the way, is an international e-commerce standard
that was designed by IBM and Sun in record breaking time at the
request of the United Nations..."
