Message text written by Matthew MacKenzie
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So you are saying "Forget transport, focus on the transaction minus
delivery?". I actually feel that way as well, but is there not a whole
committee devoted to transport, and wouldn't they need to make some
decisions about this?
>>>>>>>>> Quite. If you send something by FedEx you don't care what
type of Van they put it in. That's their job to
figure out the right
van for the job. You simply describe the shipment:
Size,
weight and item. What we do need to ensure is that
there is
a consistent description of the envelope structure
and
interchange grammer.
I like the BizTalk model, which is transport agnostic (assuming a handler
is provided for what you are trying to do), but I am guessing that most of
the actual B2B transport is going to happen on one medium, with others
being spawned as a result of the main transaction. I also am hoping that
transport is no longer up to the hardware guys, what with TCP/IP and all -
I really hope we aren't doing too much more modem-based communication.
>>>>>>>>>>> Sorry - I should have included Routers in there as well - its
just
a black box (or beige)!
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Matthew MacKenzie<
