Subject: VOTE REQUESTED - Suggest vote NO to Section 7 of the TechnicalArchitecture Specification
All members, I have been examining my copy of the technical Architecture specification. I would suggest that a vote of NO should apply to this section. For the SME, this section is fundimentally flawed and will not work in any Small Business that I know of. Line 434 says "The implementation phase deals specifically with the procedures for creating an application of the ebXML infastructure" There is extensive descriptions following of registries, scenarios, runtime phases etc... but there is nothing that I can find even showing how an SME connects it to their packaged accounting system. This is in my opinion, an extremely major flaw! I kindof understand the benefit of using a top down methodology, but in this case it has led to a very grave design flaw. From the ebXML homepage, I got the impression that what was being designed was sortof like a volkswagon. A car for the masses that businesses all over the world could use. The problem is that the designers so far have been concentrating so much on a top down view of what they are designing, that they haven't bothered to have a look at the car from the side or underneeth. What has therefore been designed, from an implemention perspective, is much like a car without wheels! It just won't go! Without connecting ebXML to the packaged accounting system so central to the movement of every SME, what hat has been described so far, won't actually work. So it doesn't matter how much you rev the ebXML engine, it will never translate into forward motion for business. It will just sit there forever looking like a car, sounding like a car but incapable of leaving the driveway. I know that it's just a minor detail - but connecting the ebXML to the Accounting system is a fairly important one I would think. The TA document described thus far, if implemented the way it is read, would not enable an SME to conduct business using ebXML. I just thought I'd point that out, just a comment from somebody looking from the side. David Lyon ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul R. Levine <plevine@telcordia.com> To: ebXML-BP (E-mail) <ebxml-bp@lists.ebxml.org>; ebxml-ccbp-analysis (E-mail) <ebxml-ccbp-analysis@lists.ebxml.org>; <ebxml-ccbp-context@lists.ebxml.org> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 2:36 PM Subject: VOTE REQUESTED - Proposed Corrections to Sections 6, 7,and 8.2 ofTechnical Architecture Specification > BP PT Members, > > We have been working the past couple of days on correcting Business Process > aspects of the ebXML Technical Architecture Specification. > > This is being sent out to BP list for an informal vote on whether we should > request the TA team to submit these changes to the Executive committee. > This > must be done this Friday at the latest. Therefore our 'vote' will be > following the 'white > ballot' rule, i.e. unless you vote NO, or vote to amend, and do so by > Friday, April 26th, > 5:00 p.m. EDT, it is assumed that you vote YES. > > If you have any questions, please call me at (732) 699-3042. > > Regards, > > Paul Levine > BP PT Co-lead > > (See attached file: Proposed_TA-Section-6-7-8.2_Revision.doc) >
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