Re: [ebxml-dev] P2P for e-business - applications?

["Stephen Green" <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>]

Thanks Andrew,

I'd personally always favoured the P2P model primarily
but seen the hub model or variants as a fallback. Maybe
we're stuck with it for the near future then on any large
scale in terms of national infrastructures. Still I think it
would be nice if national governments sought to provide
for or nurture P2P for their private sectors in the longer
terms. Maybe it just needs some governmental backing
to succeed here and there. I codeveloped the UBL UBP
with P2P really in mind due to this hope so I do hope
it is just a matter of time.

Grateful for any other comments or bits of info still.

Apologies for cross-posting by the way. Just couldn't
decide which list it most related to.

All the best

Stephen Green


On 21/03/07, White,Andrew <Andrew.White@gartner.com> wrote:
> Quick answer - no.  I have seen many start ups come and go using a P2P
> model for business and B2B.  Few if any real P2P examples persist though
> the design principles will find a friend in the drive to SOA.  There are
> many P2P books - some even with e-Commerce in the title - that are
> several years old now and they (what they professed) mostly came to
> nothing.
>
> Your curiosity though shows that there are others like you - so it is
> just a matter of time.  There are clear relationship and financial
> issues that inhibit the adoption and exploitation of P2P in the
> business/e-business world.
>
> Andrew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Green [mailto:stephengreenubl@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 1:55 PM
> To: Ebxml-dev; <UBL DEV-LIST
> Subject: [ebxml-dev] P2P for e-business - applications?
>
> I've been interested, partly just pure curiosity, in
> how P2P might be used for e-business, such as
> between small and medium sized businesses
> and such as using OASIS and other open
> standards.
>
> I noticed an article on the subject
> http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/math/2006-0727-200353/Xu_05_NASM05_c
> amera_ready.pdf
> so I gather there has been interest in it for some time
> by various groups.
>
> What I'd like to ask is: Has anyone come across
> applications (opensource especially or services like
> a B2B version of Napster) geared toward P2P for B2B?
> I wondered if such things are being used widely by
> any small businesses; also, which of the various well
> known apps (such as for ebXML) might be useful in
> such a scenario, within the means of a particularly
> small business say?
>
> I'm also interested in whether human interfaces for
> such scenarios might use browser and, say, XForms
> or the like or whether the requirements of P2P demand
> more sophistication - unless one has Google's human
> resources, say :-)
>
> Many thanks
>
> Stephen Green
>