Re: Message Envelope Specification - Logical Addressing

[Christopher Ferris <chris.ferris@east.sun.com>]

William,

Basically, the idea is that the URI would be resolved (by software)
to a suitable address (e.g. email, URL, etc.) for the transport
being used. This would necessarily involve some software which
could map a URI to a URL or some other address. We have provided
a Context element which may be used as a means of identifying
the resolve service.

However, it is also expected that there will be a TPA (Trading
Partner Agreement) or functional equivalent which would have these
details (physical address) identified ahead of time, thus sliminating
the need for a separate resolving service (e.g. I2L). We plan 
on having further discussions on this topic at our face2face
meeting this week here in Burlington.

HTH,

Chris

"William J. Kammerer" wrote:
> 
> It's not clear from the ebXML Message Envelope Specification v0-5.doc at
> http://www.ebxml.org/specdrafts/Envv0-5.pdf how to use logical business
> identifiers to route messages based on DUNS identifiers, EAN location
> identifiers, FEINs, etc.
> 
> For example, a VAN may be used to route ebXML messages using solely the
> business IDs, insulating the sender from the busywork of maintaining
> trading partner URLs.  How would you use <FromURI>, <ToURI>, and
> <ReplyToURI> to specify addressing by a DUNS?   How is that done with a
> Uniform Resource Identifier? Will the ebXML envelope provide explicit
> means of stating the type of identifier (e.g., DUNS, DUNS+4, EAN -
> basically all the sender and receiver types in the ISA and the UNB)?  Or
> will the address of some "resolver" have to be included in the URI?
> 
> William J. Kammerer
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