Steve, nice sentiment, but I don't think it will fly. Don't look to VANs to maintain any public accessible registries:
"There is no universal directory that VANs use to locate all enterprises, as a VAN treats its own trading partner directory as its family jewels. VAN interconnect is a very manual and unreliable process, requiring you to coordinate the link-up, as your new VAN would rely on you to tell them at which VAN your trading partners can be found. And sometimes other problems get in the way. With their monopoly on their subscriber lists, VANs don't just hold their own subscribers hostage - but sometimes even other VANs!" See http://www.novannet.com/vans.html William J. Kammerer Novannet, LLC. Columbus, OH 43221-3859 . USA +1 (614) 487-0320 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "EDI-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 28 January, 2005 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [EDI-L] EDI Coordinator Trading Partner Contacts It would make sense for the VANs to maintain this registry, since they allready have that information. Let's say you are given an ISA ID and don't know who to contact the owner of the ISA ID you could go to a website to query a Name Service registry maintained and replicated by the VANs. That would also pave the way to unique ISA ID's across VANs. Regards, -Steve . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
