A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 19 November, 2003.
Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) Ratified as OASIS Standardfrom Uche Ogbuji at 23:36, 19 NovSPML 1.0 "provides an XML-basedframework for managing the allocation of system resources within andbetween organizations. Encompassing the entire life-cycle management ofresources, SPML defines the provisioning of digital services such asuser accounts and access privileges on systems, networks andapplications, as well as non-digital or physical resources such as cellphones and credit cards."