RE: latest Version

[Brian Eisenberg <BrianE@DataChannel.com>]

>>>>Comments below

-----Original Message-----
From: Nikola Stojanovic [mailto:nhomest1@twcny.rr.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 11:14 AM
To: ebXML-Architecture List
Subject: Re: latest Version



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Sort Participants by LastName.
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>>>>Done.

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Add 2 more Participants: Dick Brooks - Group 8760 and Henry Lowe - OMG.
Also, I don't have the name of the 4th member of our SJ team who worked with
us on MS section.
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>>>>Done.

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Change FirstName from Nicola to Nikola.
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>>>>Done.

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Just by looking at TOC, CC section looks very thin. Should secs 18 and 19 be
under the same supersection?
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>>>>We need to get some feedback and a status update on what's going on
within CC right now. My understanding is that they are jointly working with
BP on the Collaboration MM and UML Model document. 

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It is very important to make it clear that ebXML is not "whole or nothing"
approach and that it would be possible to use just some of ebXML aspects
that suit a particular Business. This is an architectural issue and it might
be very important for early adopters as well. We've discussed this issue
before and I hope we agree that there are different paths and possibilities
for Businesses to adopt ebXML.
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>>>>Nikola - are you referring to chapter 7.0? I agree that we need to
discuss this issue in our doc, but am not sure where you are suggesting we
add it. Perhaps you can come up with a paragraph that elaborates on this
issue. 

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Are steps 8,9 and 10,11 swapped? How would Partners agree on TPA if they
don't know Business scenarios (and which ones to choose).
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>>>>I will get clarification on this from Klaus and David, as they were
primarily responsible for this section. 

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This very important step is not represented in figure 1. I think it should
be.
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>>>>Ditto for your comment re: line 203

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AFAIK, we have not discussed "Open-edi" so far in TA, and I need some time
to digest it. Anyway, whole section is very heavy on "Open-edi" and doesn't
mention any other initiatives.
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>>>>We discuss open-edi, to set the stage for explaining the ebXML
architecture in terms of the Busines Operational View and the Functional
Services View. This distinction effectively separates the discussion of
busines view of ebXML from the functional view. 

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Figure 5 contains: Registry Service Interface and Business Service
Interface. There is no Messaging Service Interface. This interface is so
important that it should be represented in this View, as suggested in
section 10.
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>>>>I Agree - We will do our best to figure out the best way to represent
the MS interface in the diagram.  

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We have already discussed the issue of UUID/GUIDs several times and I would
not bring it up again. I would imagine that RR people would be the ones who
will have some comments related to this if it is not in synch with their
spec. I would suggest that we just add "Globally ..." qualifier to this
entity.
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>>>>We have abstracted back from both GUID and UID and are now referring to
them simply as UIDs (Unique Identifiers). We will work to ensure that we are
in sync with the RR team on this issue. I agree that it may not be
appropriate to discuss UIDs in this section. Perhaps we should move to RR
section. We will discuss and take the appropriate action. 


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Again, MS - Messaging Service is not represented even though it is mentioned
in some places.
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>>>>Our intentions with the diagrams are to show the various phases showing
the interaction between various components. I agree that we should figure
out a way to show that the MS is responsible for sending/receiving messages.
We will discuss and take this appropriate action. 


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Up to this point, doc has not addressed the issue of "ebXML Modularized" and
it should have. It doesn't show "ports" of components and how would ebXML
adopter choose what components / packages are needed for her/his own
Business.
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>>>>This is similar to your comments above (line 173). I agree that we need
to make it clear, but we don't want to get into implementation specific
details. Specific implementation requirements, as we learned from our last
TA spec version, are beyond the scope of the architecture. 

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Do we store ebXML Metamodels in ebXML Registry or ebXML Repository? Also the
concept of Repository needs to be defined properly, IMO (previous section).
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>>>>Metamodels are stored in the repository and queried via the registry. We
will be sure to clarify this distinction. 

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We need to clarify what we mean by XML Schema.
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>>>>I agree. Perhaps we should change the diagram (Figure 9) to XML
Representation instead of XML Schema.

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We should not call the upper layer "Transport Layer". There are many other
aspects in this layer so I wouldn't use this name.
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>>>>Hmmm... Any suggestions on an alternate name???

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Please put back the graphics from the draft version of TR&P section, which
was posted on 10/3/2000. Current ones seem to be corrupted (do not show
everything).
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>>>>The diagrams were revised to make them more readable in print format.
Furthermore, the comments posted to the list by Chris Ferris
(http://lists.ebxml.org/archives/ebxml-architecture/200010/msg00016.html)

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Once more, some Usages that show "ebXML Modularized". Like, I have Messaging
Service spec and I don't care about the "Whole Thing". How can I use just MS
piece and do some Business with someone else. Is this a valid Usage of
ebXML? I would say yes, and I think we need to show some of those "Minimal
ebXML" kinds.
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We need to accompany this document with (or at least point to) "Open Issues"
doc.
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>>>>I agree. Anyone want to take on this task???

It looks to me that we can have a version that is ready for QA on Monday. I
am not sure about the procedure prior to posting to QA. Does the TA group
need to vote on that Action (posting to QA) or not?

Regards,
Nikola