Lee, et al.
Good and important questions. My understanding of the concept at this
stage is a series of distributed and linked registries/repositories
established and maintained by industry groups, business consortia, and
perhaps by individual companies. The ebXML specification will have
flexibility built in to accommodate different industries' business
processes, practices, and language, with the use of common core components
to encourage interoperability among these variations. The repositories
will store these resources and registries will serve as indices.
Will this flexibility be enough to accommodate all potential messages and
users? My guess is that we will have to see how it works in
practice. Some companies just may insist on their own interpretations
rather than using the industry's specs. As one who believes in standards,
I discourage that kind of activity, but it has been known to happen.
Your question about fees is very interesting. To my knowledge there has
not been discussion of the business model for the
registries/repositories. There is no free lunch and somehow the work to
develop and maintain these important resources needs to be covered. Best
regards.
Alan Kotok
Director, Education and Information Resources
Data Interchange Standards Association
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At 05:54 PM 12/13/00 -0500, Lee LoFrisco wrote:
>Alan Kotok, of DISA, wrote on 12/13/00 5:38 PM:
>
>Ken, et al.
>
>.......
>The ebXML initiative has a number of features that build on the EDI
>experience but make it more accessible to smaller companies. One of those
>features is the electronic trading partner agreement or TPA........
>
>An important feature of ebXML is the use of registries and repositories
>that store the industry business processes, message formats, and
>vocabularies. .......
>
>Alan,
>
>As one who has observed the XML initiative from afar (other than occasional
>input to stir feedback),
>and who has made his living from EDI consulting the past eight years, I like
>what I read in your comments above
>and Rachel Foerster's message yesterday (or was it the day before?),
>regarding the ebXML registry and repository of
>"industry business processes, message formats, and vocabularies."
>
>Up 'til now, I have been hard pressed to see the benefits of XML that
>warrant the change over from traditional EDI.
>Some questions come to mind, however. Who/what will be responsible for
>maintaining the registry and repository?
>Can users of ebXML modify these ebXML standards like traditional EDI or will
>they be required to use the standard only?
>Is there a fee for accessing the registry and repository?
>
>Lee LoFrisco
>Sterling Commerce Service Partner Consultant
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