Etwork Interoperability Consultative Committee Business-to-Business

Introduction

NICC B2B is a technical working group of the "Network Interoperability Consultative Committee" set up to "agree system & process standards & best practice for automated business transactions between UK Communications Providers (CP) via Business-to-Business (B2B) and portal interfaces; In support of the emerging eMarket for "multi-service, multi-supplier, triple/quad play" services; By creating quicker, cheaper and better automated interfaces to the benefit of all UK CPs."

Work

The work programme covers a range of issues and requirements including:

Completed are:

* Technical B2B gateway system standards & guiding principles
* Process standards for B2B Trouble-To-Resolve (T2R) and Lead-To-Cash (L2C)

for the future:

* Location & Address Identification
* Appointing/Arranging access
* Billing (L2C)
* Service Inventory & Catalogue
* T2R Structured Information
* T2R: Exception Handling Processes
* Tools for structuring B2B documentation
* Systems/platform Migration
* B2B Development guides for T2R & L2C
* Alignment with international standards such as Telemanagement Forum and [International Telecommunication Union

Contributions

Contributions welcome from all UK CPs and their customers and suppliers.

ee also

* Business-to-consumer
* Business-to-employee
* Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development
* Consumer-to-consumer
* E-business
* E-Business XML (ebXML)
* Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
* Empty Vessel
* Private Electronic Market
* UN/CEFACT's Modeling Methodology (UMM)
* List of Web service markup languages
* ISO/IEC 11179
* metadata
* RosettaNet
* freebXML.org
* ebXML EVENTS
* ETOM
* Eurescom
* ETSI
* ITIL
* ANSI

External links

* [http://niccb2b.org.uk/ NICC B2B]
* [http://www.nicc.org.uk/ NICC]