Re: Submission of new TA specification DRAFT

[Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM <mwsachs@us.ibm.com>]

Duane,

Here are some comments on section 7, Trading Partner Profile.

This section is a good beginning.  The TP team is in the process of
completing its requirements document.  When we are finished, I will forward
it to the Technical Architecture and Requirements teams for incorporation
of some of the material into their ebxml documents.

7.1 Overview

Line 11:  The TP team has decided that the profiles should encompass only
"IT" requirements and should specifically avoid involvement with
traditional legal requirements.  There will, no doubt, be a tag by which
the name of a legal document can be referenced but that is all.  Please
remove "legal requirements".

7.2 Functional Requirements

line 28:  The TP team intends that the profiles and TPAs be usable
independently of other ebXML specifications, as stated for all
specifications in the Requirements document.   Please change "MUST be
indexed" to "MAY be indexed".

line 33:  Per my comment to line 11, please delete item (e) about legal
requirements of businesses.

Line 1 on p. 22:  Did you intend for the line numbers to start from 1 on
each page?  Most ebXML specifications I have seen are numbered continuously
through the whole document.

Line1 on p.22:  Per my comment to Section 7.2, line 28:  Unless an
ebxml-compliant trading partner is one who is compliant with ALL ebXML
specifications, please change MUST to MAY.

Line 4 on p. 22:  Again, TPPs should be able to be used independently of
other ebXML specifications.  I suggest changing "A TPP MUST" to "A TPP that
is stored in an ebXML-compliant repository MUST".

Regards,
Marty

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Duane Nickull <duane@xmlglobal.com> on 09/13/2000 02:06:00 PM

To:   ebXML-StC <ebXML-StC@lists.ebxml.org>, ebXML-Architecture List
      <ebxml-architecture@lists.ebxml.org>, Brent.Phillips@HOSystems.com
cc:
Subject:  Submission of new TA specification DRAFT



Please consider this a formal submission to the QA Project Team to
review the new version of the Technical Architecture Specification v
0.8.71

It is available for download at

http://www.xmlglobal.com/ebxml/downloads
<!--If I get proper FTP access for the ebXML site, they will be posted
there-->

There are three documents

1/  v 0.8.71 Microsoft word doc
2/  v 0.8.71 Acrobat PDF
3/  changelog.doc

Unless we hear any general objection back from the Quality Assurance
team by September 20, 2000 at noon,  this will go to the ebXML plenary
for general comment period #1 commencing that day at 12:00 PST.

Brent and Rachel - please cosider this the formal three day submission
period before it goes to the plenary.  Unless there are changes dictated
by the QA team, there is no reason why these copies cannot be made
available along with an appropriate news release on Sept 20, 2000.

Duane Nickull