@skiles 2/
ebXML was sabotaged by Microsoft as a threat to their proprietary systems, but the creation of something that would work with human business processes was also resisted by a faction of zealots within the project who were working for an environment in which all the actual business transactions were between machines, without the need for human businesspeople at all. I can't help seeing the current push for AI in this space as a continuation of that way of thinking.