RE: Fantasies

["CRAWFORD, Mark" <MCRAWFORD@lmi.org>]

Title: RE: Fantasies

Bob,

        EWG and X12 are Business Collaboration in practice.  In the past, they have been separate efforts.  Now they are practicing what they preach - work together to reach a common understanding of the business processes and develop a standard method for expressing those processes - through their joint core component initiative.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Haugen [mailto:linkage@interaccess.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 7:57 AM
> To: 'CRAWFORD, Mark'; 'ebXML Core' (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Fantasies
>
>
>
> Mark Crawford:
> >With all due respect
> >to our ebXML brethren in the technical project teams, they
> are creating
> >interconnectivity - not interoperability.  The
> interoperability piece will
> >only come with standardization of the payload, not the
> wrapper and means for
> >exchanging it.
>
> I agree, but standardized business collaboration processes are
> required for interoperability, too.  ebXML is not developing those,
> either.  It's developing the specifications for how to design the
> processes, and a catalog (survey and cross-reference) of existing
> business processes from many sources, but some other group
> will need to develop the standard processes and link them to
> standard payloads for real business process interoperability.
> Is the joint EWG/X12 Core Component initiative going to
> include business collaboration processes?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob Haugen
>