Re: Where is that Party?

[Scott Hinkelman/Austin/IBM <srh@us.ibm.com>]

Thanks Jim.
I have found it to be useful to discuss these issues in an open forum,
in order to faciltate ideas and concensous. If no common understanding
is met, then it goes on an issues list. I attribute this basic approach
to some of the success in TRP, which is far beyond other ebXML groups.
No problem in tracking, but I would hope others post the
questions/discussion. I'm mostly interested in making sure the requirements
of the TP team are met and facilitated by the bpmm and would like
other's opinion on it as much as possible........

Scott Hinkelman, Senior Software Engineer
XML Industry Enablement
IBM e-business Standards Strategy
512-823-8097 (TL 793-8097) (Cell: 512-940-0519)
srh@us.ibm.com, Fax: 512-838-1074



"James D. Clark" <jdc-icot@lcc.net> on 09/28/2000 03:15:38 PM

To:   Scott Hinkelman/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
cc:   ebxml-bp@lists.ebxml.org
Subject:  Re: Where is that Party?



Scott et al.

I am expecting that very soon I will be beset with numerous questions and
issues regarding the metamodel and methodology. In order to assure that I
respond to these (or have the appropriate person to respond). I am placing
these questions into a word doc capturing the issue, response, originator
and
the doc release the issue was against. I will do my best to capture all
issues.

As a response to this question please affirm the following:

The concept "Party does exist in the metamodel, currently as an abstract
superclass of TradingPartner and BusinessPartner. I have not included in
the
spec as of yet in that I am dealing with an issue of whether the concept of
stakeholder found in the N090 is equivalent, a specialization or a unique
class. The next release of the doc will show this modeling element.

Jim Clark



Scott Hinkelman/Austin/IBM wrote:

> Jim/Bob/Bpers,
> I'm always looking for a Party.
>
> I'm starting with some basics. There is increased concensous in TP/MS
that
> a Party:
> "A Party is a company, organization or individual or other entity
> that can generate, receive or relay Documents."
>
> The document on page 13 does indicate a PartnerType, but could the
Customer
> and Supplier (business actor stereotype) in the example equate to a Party
> stereotype?
> The next item would be how express a PartyProfile correctly here.
>
> Scott Hinkelman, Senior Software Engineer
> XML Industry Enablement
> IBM e-business Standards Strategy
> 512-823-8097 (TL 793-8097) (Cell: 512-940-0519)
> srh@us.ibm.com, Fax: 512-838-1074