RE: Message Envelope Specification - Logical Addressing

["Sohaib.J.Kidwai" <sohaibk@ecomxml.com>]

A tpa in the regrep may be consulted at this point to resolve logical
business identifiers from URIs or vice-versa.
Any takers ?

Sohaib.J.Kidwai
Architect
EComXML Inc.
Phone: (215) 321-5569 (X104)
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-----Original Message-----
From: William J. Kammerer [mailto:wkammerer@foresightcorp.com]
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 10:55 AM
To: ebXML Transport (E-mail)
Subject: Message Envelope Specification - Logical Addressing


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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