RE: ebXML Registry and Repository Part 1: Business Domain Specificati onReleased for First Comment Period

["Nieman, Scott" <Scott.Nieman@norstanconsulting.com>]

1) Thank you for the observation, and yes, you are correct in that a
corporation could have their own registry and repository.  We are promoting
and requiring a network of registries and repositories as that is the only
architecture that will scale over the Internet.

I am still thinking in my mind about the specializations under RA, and
whether the RA may actually inherit from the Corporation instead, and that
there may be another way to show a corporation that is NOT an RA that
represents the business needs within a vertical domain (for example).  I do
not believe inheriting from the RA is the best since this is not necessarily
to show role based security, but inheritance of legal and policy issues.  It
would be nice to show optional cardinality on inheritance in Rose as that
would simplify things.

Speaking of the corporation's registry and repository, it does seem that the
corporation's registry may need to be registered somewhere, and that John
Petit's concept of a "registry of registries" becomes more important in that
context.  I don't think it is necessary to show that in the actor hierarchy
though.  

Thoughts?

2) I posted the latest X3.285 mdl version I had on my computer to the ebXML
site.  Try this link to download:

http://www.ebxml.org/working/project_teams/registry/x3_285_registry_3d_Propo
sal_19991015.mdl 
  
Regards,

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: LITTRE Jacques [mailto:jacques.littre@swift.com]
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 4:47 AM
To: Nieman, Scott
Cc: Eric Dubois; Kris Ketels; Frank Vandamme; John Neve;
ebxml-regrep@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: ebXML Registry and Repository Part 1: Business Domain
Specificati onReleased for First Comment Period
Importance: High


Dear Scott,

1 - I have reviewed the document in reference and I would like to have a
clarification from you on the Section 2 Figure 2 about the
Actors relationship diagram and more specifically about the "Corporation"
actor.

According to the diagram, there is no way a Corporation could become a
Registration Authority (RA) whilst I thought (and Eric
confirmed it to me) that the ebXML Registry and Repository was to be a
distributed system with I guess local RA's. In that case, we
should assume that Corporation may have an RA role and therefore should
inherit from the RA actor in the diagram.

Am I correct or on the contrary should we understand that there is one
single central RA with distributed registries and
repositories or moreover with a central registry and repository ?

2 - Could you please send me a copy of the X.285 Specs if you have one (I
have not been able to get one from the various links on
the regrep sites). Thanks in advance.

Looking forward to your answer.
Best regards
Jacques

"Nieman, Scott" wrote:

> The ebXML Registry and Repository Part 1: Business Domain Specification
has
> now been released for the First Comment Period.  This document establishes
> the overall scope for an ebXML compliant Registry and Repository.  It can
be
> found in PDF form at:
>
> http://www.ebxml.org/working/project_teams/registry/part1.pdf .
> It is 318KB in size.
>
> Commenting Instructions (extracted from the document itself):
> This working draft incorporates the decisions of the ebXML Registry and
> Repository project team as of May 11, 2000.  The first comment period
opens
> May 15, 2000 and ends May 29, 2000.  Comments with associated starting
line
> number and ending line number, and proposed changes (required) should be
> emailed to joe.dalman@tiecommerceusa.com in DocBook, MS Word or plain text
> format.  We will not accept this document edited with revisions on.
>
> Please expect another reposting of this announcement next week or earlier,
> when the ebXML listserv is updated with all our virtual members.  The
> reposting may or may not extend the comment period so please read that
> message carefully.
>
> We really need your input into this document, as the deployment of a
network
> of ebXML registries and repositories is viewed as critical to the future
of
> e-Business integration using XML.
>
> Best regards and thanks in advance for your feedback,
>
> Scott Nieman, ebXML Registry and Repository Project Team Lead
> Norstan Consulting
> Voice: USA: 952.352.5889