Re: What do people really expect from ebXML?

[David Lyon <djlyon@one.net.au>]

Mike, All,

We're told,  that at least 500 acres of trees get knocked down each day to
make paper for receipts. Something totally needless in an electronic world.

I know of one company that spends $700,000 per year on paper to print
statements. There must be tens of thousands of others needlessly consuming
world resources.

People *expect* that ebXML will do something about providing solutions that
will slow down the very real carnage that is going on in the world.

It's possible that people in America may have disposed themselves of the
Kioto treaties, but the rest of the world hasn't.

Please give us a bit of a break, technical people like myself need
"specifications" for electronic commerce so that we can produce solutions to
solve these world problems.

That's what we were told to expect from ebXML !


----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Rawlins <mike@rawlinsecconsulting.com>
To: <ebxml-core@lists.ebxml.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: What do people really expect from ebXML?


> This discussion seems to have gone from "What do people expect" - which is
about
> marketing, to "what do people want?" - which is about requirements.  The
> authoritative answer to the latter is the ebXML Requirements Spec.
>
> Regarding the list of topics which Bob Haugen sent out in a recent
message:
>
> * deliver full UML models from business process to basic
> components;
> * be compatible with X12 and EDIFACT;
> * deliver something simple right now that small businesses
> who cannot even afford PC's (now $600) can use.
>
> This comes closer to a requirements list than a marketing list, but still
isn't
> completely correct for CCs or the rest of ebXML, either...
>
> I think what William is asking for is what some refer to as "the value
> proposition".   Perhaps this discussion might yield what he is suggesting
if the
> focus is put there.
>
> --
> Michael C. Rawlins, Rawlins EC Consulting
> www.rawlinsecconsulting.com
>
>
>
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