Re: Registry concern with specifying common vertical structures

[Scott Hinkelman <srh@us.ibm.com>]

Exactly. And the HR effort, for example, realizes the differences across
countries.

I think best to remove these type of structures from ebXML Registry.

Scott Hinkelman, Senior Software Engineer
XML Industry Enablement
IBM e-business Standards Strategy
512-823-8097 (TL 793-8097) (Cell: 512-940-0519)
srh@us.ibm.com, Fax: 512-838-1074



"Philip Goatly" <philip.goatly@bolero.net> on 03/14/2001 09:39:13 AM

Please respond to "Philip Goatly" <philip.goatly@bolero.net>

To:   Scott Hinkelman/Austin/IBM@IBMUS, <ebxml-regrep@lists.ebxml.org>
cc:
Subject:  Re: Registry concern with specifying common vertical structures



Having looked at the postal address in ebXML I would like to see more
optionality in it  - and it is SO american.

   We do not use State or Block Number in the UK !!! etc.

Cheers, Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Hinkelman" <srh@us.ibm.com>
To: <ebxml-regrep@lists.ebxml.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 3:28 PM
Subject: Registry concern with specifying common vertical structures


> All,
> I am concerned with the ebXML Registry defining common industry
structures
> like PostalAddress. I am not convinced that this should be in scope for
> ebXML Registry.  For example, if your organization is a member of HR-XML,
> one look at that effort which has gone into capturing all of the aspects
of
> a PostalAddress concludes that for the Human Resource community ebXML's
> equivalent is not useful. I have no reason to think that the other
(common
> ?) vertical elements in the .86 spec would not fall into the same
> situation.
>
> Scott Hinkelman, Senior Software Engineer
> XML Industry Enablement
> IBM e-business Standards Strategy
> 512-823-8097 (TL 793-8097) (Cell: 512-940-0519)
> srh@us.ibm.com, Fax: 512-838-1074
>
>
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