RE: 28 Feb. Conference Call Report

["Paul R. Levine" <plevine@telcordia.com>]

Keith,

Thanks for your message.  Perhaps I should have said BP metamodel, since that
will be the end product.  A "meta meta model" will be a working document as we
gather the attributes of the 8 meta models and define what they are sematically.
That will be a generic template that should be capable of being populated by any
of the 8 metamodels.  After that, the generic template will be populated by a
superset metamodel, which will actually be the ebXML BP metamodel.  The meta
meta model will be input to the ebXML repository, so that it can accommodate the
metamodel attributes that correspond to the BP metamodel.

We are gathering the 8 metamodels, some of which are in  UML, and some of which
are descriptive text or ppt slides.  We have some work to do before we have
apples and apples, but one of the early steps is to create a matrix of the 8
metamodels at a common level so they can be compared.

Regards,

Paul
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Keith.Finkelde@BTFinancialgroup.com on 02/29/2000 10:14:47 PM

To:   plevine@telcordia.com, ebXML-BP@lists.oasis-open.org
cc:    (bcc: Paul R. Levine/Telcordia)
Subject:  RE: 28 Feb. Conference Call Report




Paul & ebXML-Bp

I do not understand this direction of heading to meta-meta models.   Surely this
will be ThingType, Thing & ThingRelation! (MetaClassType, MetaClass &
MetaClassRelation)

I believe that we are talking different views of meta structure - and need to
agree the broad boundaries of these views, prior to
establishing a framework (and subsequent decompostion)  within each view.

The UML semantic structure of Foundation, Behavioural Elements & General
Mechanism packages , and then further decomposition
within these packages has been a good way to communicate a complex topic.

Is there a consolidated set of URLs for the existing meta models - to be able to
review, and see if we are talking apples & apples.

** unfortunately - I am unable to make the phone discussions -  4:00AM (in Oz)
is not my best time of day!

Look forward to your comments.

regards

Keith Finkelde
BT Portfolio Services
email: keith.finkelde@btfinancialgroup.com
phone: +61 2 9259 9765


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul R. Levine [mailto:plevine@telcordia.com]
Sent: Wednesday,1 March 2000 10:16
To: ebXML-BP@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: 28 Feb. Conference Call Report




Business Process Team

The main topic of the 28 Feb. call was to develop a plan for development of the
BP meta meta model.  Please see the attached report of the call.

Best regards,

Paul Levine

(See attached file: BP_PT_28Feb2000.doc)