Thanks for the kind comments, William. A few replies inserted below.
"William J. Kammerer" wrote <snipped>:
>
> If SOAP is not a
> direct competitor to ebXML MS, maybe W3C's nascent XML Protocol -
> described at http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/ - could be. In any event,
> something like ebXML Messaging services will be needed to provide the
> business messaging transport framework for the "digital dial tone" Mike
> mentions. My alternate prediction is that either one or the other
> (ebXML MS or XML Protocol) will have a Gartneresque probability of
> achieving critical mass of .8.
Perhaps I generalize too much in identifying SOAP with W3C's XML Protocol work, but
if you review the public work on the cited page you can certainly come away with that
impression. I agree with William's assessment of .8 for one or the other, I just
think it's much more likely to be the W3C product.
>
> But there are lots of occasions for two known trading partners to want
> to automate mundane agreements. For example, on the EDI-L list in just
> the last few weeks we've heard people asking what the ISA14 was for, and
> it ends up it has nothing to do with the X12 997 functional
> acknowledgement whose use depends on out-of-band Trading Partner
> agreement(s). And we had the issue of the business response to a
> UN/EDIFACT INVOIC message: wouldn't it be nice if one could advertise
> (in the CPP) their ability to automate remittance advices, so their
> trading partners could automatically ask for one if they were capable of
> handling it? The rough analog of all this - and more - is built into
> the ebXML CPP/CPA specification! Mike gives the CPP/CPA spec a
> probability of achieving critical mass of .2; I'll say it's closer to
> .5 or .6.
A few clarifications: In the ebXMLBinding element there are rough analogues to the
ability to request a 997 or TA1. However, the issue of a business response to the
INVOIC message is covered by the BPSS, which is only pointed to by the CPA/CPP and is
not an integral part of the CPA or the CPP.
>
> This is why
> Rachel and I have to sit in the corner all alone, wearing our dunce hats
> with gum on our noses.
>
Let me publicly go on the record here as saying that although I've seen both Rachel
and William sitting in corners alone, I have *never* seen them wearing dunce hats or
with gum on their noses! (or did I miss that party? You guys in RegRep must have had
a lot more fun than we did in Requirements...)
--
Michael C. Rawlins, Rawlins EC Consulting
www.rawlinsecconsulting.com
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