In a message dated 1/30/02 9:26:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> For those of us who have worked
> with data exchange at an industry level for years, it is very important to
> remain focused on technologies that will enable true horizontal, global
> participation.
To add to the concept of the word "true" used in it's list context above:
My perspective , as an owner operator of a $multimillion biz.;
I embraced EDI bc. our major customer said to,
I realized upon reading the contract to trade that way, that! all the
elements and segments (lines) IN an EDI document WERE agreed to, as to
meaning, by all trading partners (the judge would agree that the partners had
agreed to what they had agreed to; a contract is when both parties do what is
expected bc. they recognize the consequences of failing to do so, so much,
they both just do what they agreed to do!).
What that means is:
tell me what you will about what a document or any part of it means, if
you must,
what I think the judge is going to tell me it means is what I really am
concerned about.
EDI documents are "legal", beyond what any other party can change their mind
about what they meant!
XML can just allow them or me to have a pretty printed invoice to get the AP
clerk to remember me and place my invoice high enough in the stack, my check
gets written, at least, before they set the stack aside bc. the bank balance
has then been depleted (that IS how that works!).
I further like about XML that the fine print legals on the backs can be
changed fast and effectively as our biz. "learns" more wily ways from the
more wily wayed (the vagaries of judges decisions effecting NEW, immediately
binding precedent contract law). w/o figuring out how much the print job is
going to need to be budgeted (how much $ has to be taken away from other
things we know well we need dearly).
Thus, we embrace EDI/XML as a practical biz. application of a recognized
"legal" weighted standard assuring me we're gonna get this right, even if we
end up needing the judge to point that out to some other "side", who, upon
change of their situation or perception, changed what they said they meant,
and now don't want to do what they said they would willingly do by this
contract/document.
Regards,
JIM CUNNINGHAM
P.S.
The UN saw that too (the guys looking out for and helping the little
countries who had to go to global trade to feed their people) and here we
are, one world global trade agreements, even if we don't realize that that's
what we have! Some/enough of us do!
P.P.S.
International biz.: now that's where you find out what a contract is; and
what a judge is (TRY to find one that can make the other guy do what he
agreed to do!), and whom cares about any of that. Ask traders who represent
developing countries, when you find one not on local standards of
righteousness, what their fears/problems are. One can't go "over there" and
"pursue" it, can one. No foreigner is gonna come over here and roust one of
our guys. He may be a thief! But, he's our thief! What he gets from you
guys does benefit our economy; period. Especially if you understand how he
"ends up" "sharing" it over here, with various decision making "allies".
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