[ebBP] 2/22/2004: [RSD] Role Binding WI 13-25-28-Related-26

["Monica J. Martin" <Monica.Martin@Sun.COM>]

Discussion:OASIS.ebBP.Roles;
Topic|WI13-25-28-RoleBinding and WI-26-NestedCollaboration;
Point|Role Binding and BusinessPartnerType;
Attachment|http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/ebxml-bp/200402/msg00182.html;
Attachment|http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/ebxml-bp/200402/msg00203.html;
Attachment|http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/ebxml-bp/200402/msg00174.html;
Attachment||http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/ebxml-bp/200402/msg00181.html;

mm1@
||References:
||Tell BusinessPartnerType and Roles: 
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/ebxml-bp/200402/msg00182.html
||Moberg Authorized Role: 
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/ebxml-bp/200402/msg00203.html
||Roberts Roles Option: 
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/ebxml-bp/200402/msg00174.html
||St. Amand Partner Roles: 
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/ebxml-bp/200402/msg00181.html;

Use of Role Binding Options, Authorized Role, and Business Partner Type

    * Role Options
          o We need to trace the role across multiple levels and
            mappings. See Martin's example in the reference above where
            nested and binary collaboration are accommodated using
            Performs construct (which is also supported by a
            comprehensive proposal by JJ Dubray). You may also reference
            these in the scanned diagrams graciously provided by Sally
            St. Amand from the F2F (see above).
    * Authorized Role
          o Is Authorized Role required for the ebBP?
          o If so, can it be seen as an attribute or characteristic of a
            role? Dale Moberg has asked if it could be a credential,
            contract, agency, organizational affiliation, etc. Could
            this be a UBAC extension? Is this characteristic implicit to
            a role in ebBP?
    * Business Partner Role
          o An actor binds himself through initiation to a
            BusinesPartnerType (See Anders Tell reference above).
          o Maps to under-development proposals made by Dale Moberg (on
            WI 26)

It appears we have potential requirements for:

   1. Ability to bind roles at multiple levels
   2. Ability to associate an actor (or role) through initiation to a
      specific business partner type (relevant to business semantics and
      business-level agreement)
   3. Ability to support the CPPA that must understand a party in the
      context of the business transaction.

Martin, Dale and Anders,
If you can solidify your proposal portions (which fit quite nicely 
together), I think we are almost ready to seek a formal proposal. Our 
only outstanding item is the need for explicit recognition of the 
Authorized Role. Anders, if you can advise us here, it would be greatly 
appreciated.

Thanks for all the hard work everyone has done and will do: JJ Dubray, 
Martin Roberts, Anders Tell and Dale Moberg as well as inputs from the 
rest of the team!

@mm1