Re: [WG-eCommerce] VIETNAM TO BUILD TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR E-COMMERCE

Hello Xuan,

congratulations to your appointment as "Chair and Executive of Technical
Committee Standard TCVN/TC 154"!

At 03:45 24.02.2003 +0000, you wrote:
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> Vern , Stefan , Lars oi, could you look
>www.moste.gov.vn/vnces.

This gives me an error 403 "Access forbidden". Tell your webmaster, that he
should set it up better.
The real URL is http://www.moste.gov.vn/vnces/vnces-menu.htm

According to this Decision No: 17/QD-TDC, the purpose of this Committee is
"Process, data elements and Documentation in Commerce, Industry and
Administration".

If this Committee cares about state administration: fine.
I have however concerns, if it cares about "Commerce". I am using eCommerce
since several years, and I don't need any state interference with regard to
standards there. Any attempts to regulate are prone to failure and/or do
more harm than good.

What eCommerce needs are suitable standards and the requirement to specify
the used standards in the transaction. Means: If I do an eDeal with
somebody, and this deal involves Vietnamese data, then I would specify in
my agreement, that the exchanged data are encoded according to standard X,
similarly like the beginning of an HTML page e.g. states the used charset
for the following data.

Stefan

>And more, for the ICT VN develop basically on ICT
>global standards
>First :
>- We made country forum through VnCES- TC 154 VN Technical Committee Standards
>second :
>- we need Master plan for all
>third :
>We need to consultant and promote VN GOV the Degree and Decision for that.
>Now, We are in the first phase. The second and third
>phase depend of the First phase. We need to focus all
>of our strong on this very important phase.
>Cheers
>LNX