Subject: RE: Trading Partner or Party - What's in a name
In EDI, the Trading Partners are the parties exchanging the document. Other parties, distinguished by the role they play, e.g., an Intermediate Consignee or a Carrier, may be outside of the Trading Partners. Many years ago, we struggled with these terms in X12. Any way, that's my two cents. Regards, Sally Fuger -----Original Message----- From: David Burdett [mailto:david.burdett@commerceone.com] Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 11:31 AM To: ebXML Transport (E-mail) Subject: Trading Partner or Party - What's in a name Foks We have two names for essentially the same thing - Trading Partner and Party - does it matter? My personal view is that there should be one, but which? For my 2c here are my views on the pros and cons of each: For Trading Partner: * Well known term used widely within EDI to identify a company, business, etc involved in trade * Implies that commerce or business is involved * Used by IBM in their Trading Partner Agreement For Party: * also a well known term used identify one of the companies, businesses, etc involved in trade * does not necessarily imply that Trade is involved. IMO, I prefer Party to Trading Partner since a lot of the work we are doing in ebXML, e.g. TRP and Core Components, can be used in a non commercial context and to imply that it could be used only in a commercial context by using *might* limit its use. On the other hand: * the "b" in ebXML stands for "business" so maybe we should be explicit and accept commercial only use as a constraint, and * if TRP works, it will be used in none "trade" contexts since people won't care they'll just want to take advantage of it anyway. Thoughts? David Product Management, CommerceOne 4400 Rosewood Drive 3rd Fl, Bldg 4, Pleasanton, CA 94588, USA Tel: +1 (925) 520 4422 (also voicemail); Pager: +1 (888) 936 9599 mailto:david.burdett@commerceone.com; Web: http://www.commerceone.com
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