Rachel,
You make a very good point - given that phone numbers are unique around the world. The problem would then come up if a company changes their phone number - or - sells off a division (or buys one) and now that phone number has changed. And also, given the vagaries of telephone number assignment around the world (not everybody is the same nor do they all follow the same rules), there could well be some issues regarding phone numbers and some may (MAY) be the same in a different country, but with a unique country code or area code. Yes, it makes it unique, but .. It could lead to some confusion. Personally, I don't think (again) that AS2 connections are the "end-all, be-all" that many people think that they can be. Sure, it's a good idea if you're a large enough business. But, as has been mentioned in this thread and others, there are costs and complications involved that some companies do not wish to get into. I had trading partners that didn't even want to get into the complications of web-based EDI (such as offered by SPS and DI Central and others) and preferred an option of EDI to fax communications. In some cases, maybe they just wanted that nice, faxed PO in their hands when they went into the warehouse to pull an order. Just like those of us that still prefer to read a BOOK instead of downloading a document into a Kindle or a Kobo or an iPad or .. Craig Dunham SoCal EDI Guy Bear Necessities Computing EDI Sherpa Author/blogger <http://www.retailedi.com/> RetailEDI.com <http://editalk.com/> EDITalk.com Re: Loren Data vs. GXS.... The EDI Saga... Sat Jun 15, 2013 1:25 pm (PDT) . Posted by: "Rachel Foerster" Vijay, just a thought re the non-uniqueness of today's ISA identifiers - since telephone numbers are unique around the world as long as the proper country code is used, wouldn't a telephone number offer the necessary uniqueness to identify ISA sender/receiver Just a thought. Rachel Foerster 847-872-8070 From: [email protected] On Behalf Of Vijay Thomas Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 4:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Re: Loren Data vs. GXS.... The EDI Saga... Todd Wrote "Till now the other VANs have been quietly benefiting from GXS's actions. The interconnects they posses to GXS have been huge barrier to entry to new competition since 2001...all of which have come in as Service Providers dependent on the VANs for interconnects." I truly believe that time has come to democratise the VAN business and let new entrants in. We have a good model in how the internet has figured out how to work with multiple domain and hosting providers - they don't have any of the interconnect rubbish we have in the VAN world - you can access any website anywhere in the world via a domain name which could be the same as an ISA ID in the VAN business - I know the ISA ID's are not unique now but this might be a small price to pay for progress. Thanks Vijay [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
