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E-Commerce
Basics
Electronic contracting: Coding the Codes

Documents
Operating Rules Markup Language
This file documents a draft standard for automating operating rules between organizations that wish to conduct e-commerce transactions and a mapping between Trading Partner Agreement Markup Language, the eCo Architecture, and the Legal Contract WorkGroup's pre-draft Contract DTD's. In short it gives legal affect to e-Commerce in XML.

Potential Purchase Order Implementation
of the DCN Name Space

This discusses using the Data Consortium Namespace architecture to represent contracts and the events that occur under the contract terms.