ebBP 3/28/2006: Comments Again Requested on ebBP IIC Template Profile

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

As the result of comments from Stephen Green, I've updated the ebBP 
draft profile and strongly encourage everyone to provide other comments 
so we can move this forward.  As a reminder what is currently included:

   1. Business transactions (activities and link to patterns) including
      some details on ComplexBTA
   2. Business signals
   3. Business documents
   4. Business collaboration

What is currently not included (and input is needed on this):

   1. Condition expressions (transitions, guards, success/failure states)
   2. More timing parameters

What's changed: Conditions Expressions (triggers and pre-post 
conditions) based on Stephen's suggestions that we are very clear that 
these conditions are public visible to the involved parties.

    Stephen indicated: Shouldn't there be care to distinguish (perhaps
    not just a matter for this spec) private from public trigger events.
    The example here is delivery of the product but I would suggest that
    the example * might * be a bit misleading. Shouldn't it be that a
    trigger is only ever an event which is equally visible to both (or
    all) parties? It does say 'Event external' but the example is a
    delivery which the delivering party and receiving party see
    differently. I'd like a clearer guideline that triggers should be
    events defined as visible elsewhere in a business definition
    (perhaps 3.0 could specify some use of ID/IDREF for this). In that
    case the first example is OK 'when an Advanced Ship Notice is sent'
    - this is an external event, but the second could be private and not
    visible, 'when a product is delivered' - it would only be made
    visible by some other resulting event such as a ReceiptAdvice being
    sent to signal delivery or an Advanced Ship Notice being sent to
    signal despatch

References:

   1. Template 04 (mm1):
      http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ebxml-bp/download.php/17107/ebBP2-Deployment-Profile-Template-04-mm1.doc    
                            (public site: 
      http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/17107/ebBP2-Deployment-Profile-Template-04-mm1.doc).

   2. Email announcing Template 04:
      http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ebxml-bp/email/archives/200603/msg00018.html
   3. Stephen's comments:
      http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ebxml-bp/email/archives/200603/msg00025.html
   4. Updated Template 04 (mm2):
      http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ebxml-bp/download.php/17411/ebBP2-Deployment-Profile-Template-04-mm2.doc
                                       (public site)
      http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/17411/ebBP2-Deployment-Profile-Template-04-mm2.doc