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Subject: RE: Other use cases RE: Trading Partner/Party Discovery/Agreement UseCases
David, That's a good set of working definitions. It's not clear that (5) is needed alongside (4), however. I'll add this to the collection of input to the team. Regards, Marty ************************************************************************************* Martin W. Sachs IBM T. J. Watson Research Center P. O. B. 704 Yorktown Hts, NY 10598 914-784-7287; IBM tie line 863-7287 Notes address: Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM Internet address: mwsachs @ us.ibm.com ************************************************************************************* "Burdett, David" <david.burdett@commerceone.com> on 09/08/2000 06:40:04 PM To: Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM@IBMUS, ebxml-tp@lists.ebxml.org cc: ebxml-transport@lists.ebxml.org Subject: RE: Other use cases RE: Trading Partner/Party Discovery/Agreement Use Cases Marty This might be a nit pick, but I do think that calling everything a "Trading Party Agreement" is confusing since: a) you might want to use the information for non-trade purposes b) there isn't always a prior agreement. I propose therefore the following draft definitions to facilitate a common, and clearer understanding: 1. Document. A Document is any data that can be represented in a digital form. 2. Party. A Party is a company, organization or individual or other entity that can generate, receive or relay Documents. 3. Party Profile. A Party Profile is information about a Party that can be used to determine the alternative ways to send documents to that Party. A Party Profile may be represented as a Document. 4. Party Agreement. A Party Agreement is information agreed between two (or more) parties that defines how they will exchange Documents. A Party Agreement may be represented as a Document. 5. Trading Party Agreement. A Trading Partner Agreement is a Party Agreement that is designed to be used for Commerce. A Trading Party Agreement may be represented as a Document. Thoughts? David -----Original Message----- From: Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM [mailto:mwsachs@us.ibm.com] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 11:13 AM To: ebxml-tp@lists.ebxml.org; ebxml-transport@lists.ebxml.org Subject: Other use cases RE: Trading Partner/Party Discovery/Agreement Use Cases FYI **************************************************************************** ********* Martin W. Sachs IBM T. J. Watson Research Center P. O. B. 704 Yorktown Hts, NY 10598 914-784-7287; IBM tie line 863-7287 Notes address: Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM Internet address: mwsachs @ us.ibm.com **************************************************************************** ********* ---------------------- Forwarded by Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM on 09/08/2000 02:12 PM --------------------------- "Moberg, Dale" <Dale_Moberg@stercomm.com> on 09/08/2000 12:13:07 PM To: Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM@IBMUS, "Burdett, David" <david.burdett@commerceone.com> cc: Subject: Other use cases RE: Trading Partner/Party Discovery/Agreement Use Cases I would like to propose that the survey of the use cases be opened up a bit, if only to decide that the scope has to be constrained. ========================== David's two cases seem to me to be fairly characterized over all as: 1. manual TPA formation process 2. registry-facilitated-discovery TPA formation process There are other broad families of TPA formation that may or may not involve a registry (or only registry like services privately hosted) 3. direct solicitation family (TP1 may be averse to publication of its TP template for business process BPn) a. a potential TP1 sends its TPA template (or whatever object ends up being necessary here-- I don't believe the current Role based binding process is going to be adequate) to TP2 with e.g. a specific BP in mind, with a specific data format (eg, cxml), but an open communication. b. TP2 sends responds with a proposed TPA bound in all respects or b'. negack-- no TPA -- stop. c. TP1 acknowledges acceptance of TP2s proposal or c'. negack -- no TPA --stop. d. TPA in place between TP1 and TP2 and no public registry holds this TPA (which may be desired for commercial privacy reasons) 4. real negotiated TPA formation -- registry based (By negotiation I mean something like what modems do when they agree on their connection or what PPP does when it sets up the IP layer... so these use cases will not be much like what I have seen so far in these threads. Also the process flow here can be embellished in several ways.) a. TP1 registers BP and communications ("channels") capabilities and for simplicity, a rank ordered preference list of communication channels. b. TP2 likewise registers its capabilities and preferences. c. TP1 initiates TPA negotiation by retrieving TP2 and submitting proposed TPA. Registry notifies (?) TP2. loop: d. TP2 1. accepts, go ok 2. counteroffers then notification 3. naks, go fail e. TP1 1. accepts, go ok 2. counteroffers, notification, go loop 3. naks, go fail fail: f. failure no TPA formed. notify as needed. halt label3. g. register TPA with registry. notify as needed. halt. 5. real negotiated TPA formation, ad hoc. -----Original Message----- From: Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM [mailto:mwsachs@us.ibm.com] Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 4:32 PM To: Burdett, David Cc: Burdett, David; 'EbXML Trading Partner (E-mail)'; 'ebXML Transport (E-mail)' Subject: RE: Trading Partner/Party Discovery/Agreement Use Cases David, This looks very good. Let's build it! Regards, Marty **************************************************************************** ********* Martin W. Sachs IBM T. J. Watson Research Center P. O. B. 704 Yorktown Hts, NY 10598 914-784-7287; IBM tie line 863-7287 Notes address: Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM Internet address: mwsachs @ us.ibm.com **************************************************************************** ********* "Burdett, David" <david.burdett@commerceone.com> on 09/05/2000 06:36:48 PM To: "Burdett, David" <david.burdett@commerceone.com>, Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM@IBMUS cc: "'EbXML Trading Partner (E-mail)'" <ebxml-tp@lists.ebxml.org>, "'ebXML Transport (E-mail)'" <ebxml-transport@lists.ebxml.org> Subject: RE: Trading Partner/Party Discovery/Agreement Use Cases Forgot the attachments ... -----Original Message----- From: Burdett, David Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 3:35 PM To: 'Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM' Cc: EbXML Trading Partner (E-mail); ebXML Transport (E-mail) Subject: RE: Trading Partner/Party Discovery/Agreement Use Cases Marty You make good points. An updated use case is attached which also includes other example of what can happen in step 4. For the benefit of others on this list. If we accept use case 2 in the attached document, it means that: 1. There is a use case where there is no prior "Trading Partner Agreement". Instead, 2. Information about one of the parties is sent in the same message as a business document. I'd appreciate others views on use case 2 and how to handle it. David -----Original Message----- From: Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM [mailto:mwsachs@us.ibm.com] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 11:57 AM To: David Burdett Cc: EbXML Trading Partner (E-mail); ebXML Transport (E-mail) Subject: Re: Trading Partner/Party Discovery/Agreement Use Cases Sorry, I hit the wrong button. Here is the full posting. I finally caught up to the discovery use case description. It looks very good. I am not speechless, however. In use case 2: Step 3, last paragraph: I think that some people would argue that Party A sending Party B a message containing the reference or pointer to Party B's information constitutes Party A's acceptance of Party B's terms and therefore agreement with Party B's terms. To me, this is the same as clicking "accept" on Netscape's T's and C's panel when I download a new version. In neither case, however is there any negotiation. You might want to change "agreement" to "negotiation" in the last line of the paragraph. >>>Agreed.<<< Step 4: It might be interesting to add the following step 5: Step 5: If party B did not find the Party A information acceptable in step 4, then perform use case 1. Regards, Marty **************************************************************************** ********* Martin W. Sachs IBM T. J. Watson Research Center P. O. B. 704 Yorktown Hts, NY 10598 914-784-7287; IBM tie line 863-7287 Notes address: Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM Internet address: mwsachs @ us.ibm.com **************************************************************************** ********* David Burdett <david.burdett@commerceone.com> on 08/22/2000 05:35:30 PM To: "EbXML Trading Partner (E-mail)" <ebxml-tp@lists.ebxml.org>, "ebXML Transport (E-mail)" <ebxml-transport@lists.ebxml.org> cc: Subject: Trading Partner/Party Discovery/Agreement Use Cases Folks A couple of use cases for the TP group that I am also copying to the Transport Group. Do folks these these use cases are reasonable? David <<Party Discovery Use Cases 01.doc>> 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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