RE: possible model changes from this morning

[Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>]

No, this is not how eCo works.

A market includes parties which have 1 or more roles

At 07:16 AM 4/18/00 -0500, Bob Haugen wrote:
>Karsten Riemer wrote:
>>Here is a list of possible model changes that came out of this mornings BP
>>meeting:
>
>>It was pointed out that it is really Roles that participate in markets 
>>and that it is really partner roles that participate in communities. 
>
>Who pointed that out?  In the current metamodel, Partner Roles 
>participate in process interactions, which is a very different 
>relationship from participating in communities.  The same
>party that participated in a community, can play several
>different Partner  Roles in different process instances.
>
>Therefore, I disagree with this proposed change:
>>Possible Change: Make market aggregate (party)  roles instead of parties. 
>>Make community aggregate partner roles instead of partners. 
>
>Is this really how eCo works?  It is certainly not how RosettaNet works.
>Do you have an example of how it could work?
>
>-Bob Haugen
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