PartyID (more)

[James Bryce Clark <jbc@lawyer.com>]

Further to my last e-mail.  Jamie

>Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 23:21:29 -0800
>From: Duane Nickull <duane@xmlglobal.com>
>Subject: Re: Some Party questions
>To: Martin W Sachs <mwsachs@us.ibm.com>

>Marty:
>
>While this notion is probably acceptable to some degree,  I want to 
>point out the uses for the PartyID.
>
>1. PartyID is an element within the CPP which identifies the party or 
>organization to whom the CPP belongs.  If a PArty has muyltiple CPP's 
>it is possible that they would use the same Party Identifier in each 
>CPP (after all - it is the same party).
>
>2. Since it is  possible that a party might have 2 or more CPP's (for 
>different divisions or ???), it is necessary to know which CPP you are 
>referring to when proposing a CPA which the company is a party to.
>
>3.  Unless the PartyID is different for each CPP document instance, it 
>will not be sufficient to uniquely identify a specific CPP document.  
>Therefore, the CPA negotiation will be in confusion becuase the CPA 
>examiner will not be able to determine if the CPA is legal within the 
>capabilities expressed in a certain CPP document.
>
>I therefore assert that the CPP document requires a Unique Idenifier if 
>it is to be used.
>
>Maybe this can be in the form of a urn:dunsID PLUS 
>companydivisionID therefore making each company responsible for 
>uniquely identifying its' own CPP's.  In previous experience
>however,  I would suggest this may fail.  Why?  Simply becuase it can.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Duane