RE: BPSS strategic issue: transaction integrity

[Bob Haugen <linkage@interaccess.com>]

Rebecca Reed asked:
>Does this mean that collaborations are sets of transactions that
>achieve a business objective 

Yes, and thank you for adding that most necessary point.

>and that the UMM representation of each
>transaction provides the atomic level of transactional integrity within a
>business collaboration for each transaction?

If I understand your question correctly, the answer is yes. 

The transaction model can also provide a non-repudiable
package of evidentiary information:  the whole transaction, 
with its specification, requesting and responding documents,
signals, timings, start and end states, etc., all linked 
together - evidence that is intended to hold up in court.
In ebXML, this could all be archived as one XML document.

Thanks for the question,
Bob Haugen