Bothell-based Planet 7 Technologies Corp., the XML Network Company has become the latest to join technologies big players in sponsoring the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.

As a new sponsor and participant in OASIS, Planet 7 plans to contribute to the organization's efforts to spur the adoption of XML and related technologies as the common foundation of e-business.

The company joins a rapidly growing list of companies interested in establishing standard for XML, including local giants, Boeing, Microsoft, and Nimble technologies.

"OASIS is the driving element behind the conversations taking place between vendors and users that will make the promise of XML-based interoperability a reality," said Jason Anderson, director of engineering at Planet 7. "We're excited about the opportunity to support OASIS and to contribute to the great work already being done to create standards for XML messaging."

As a developer of technology that enables the real-time, concurrent exchange of XML messaging, Planet 7 anticipates that its technical contribution to OASIS will focus on the XML messaging and transport work found within OASIS' ebXML initiative.

"By sponsoring the work of OASIS, Planet 7 Technologies demonstrates its commitment to enabling interoperability through the use of public, open standards such as XML," noted Laura Walker, executive director of OASIS.