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    Conscious
    choice of defining the ebXML Core 
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    Components
    (CCs) and the UBL Business 
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    Information
    Entities (BIEs) at the semantic level 
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    UBL
    defined naming and design rules 
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    employment
    of a context methodology 
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    User
    (industrial specific) extensibility 
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    Externally
    maintained repository of BIEs and 
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    Documents 
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    All
    code lists are external (both for creation and 
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    maintenance)
    which UBL will just point to 
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