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Subject: Repositories in e-commerce
XML.org folks, I'm including Dave Hollander of CommerceNet in this mail for reasons that will become clear toward the end. After our meeting Friday regarding the XML.org implementation of the XML registry and repository, I went and found the paper copy of the slide I was talking about that shows the role of repositories in the eCo architecture. It's from a talk by CommerceNet that I attended in San Antonio a few months ago. Looking at the slide, I realized that I really ought to redraw it so that I can fit it into my presentations better (I've had reason to refer to the eCo architecture in nearly every speech I've given lately). So I created a new slide that contains most of the material in the CommerceNet original but rearranges the elements and reproduces the type at a size that I think can be read a little better on screen. You can find my attempt at artwork at http://metalab.unc.edu/bosak/opaque/eco-006.ai and a lumpy little bitmap rendition at http://metalab.unc.edu/bosak/opaque/eco-006.gif I should note that I don't completely understand everything on this slide, though I believe I've got the general idea. In my version of the illustration, the OSI-like eCo stack is on the left and the relevant repositories are on the right. This arrangement makes obvious something that's not so evident in the original, which is that the repository for transactions is missing. A couple of the other slides in the CommerceNet presentation confirm that there should be one in the diagram, but they don't give quite enough information to reconstruct that box with confidence. I don't know whether Dave has time for this, but it would help if he or someone else at CommerceNet could provide the text that I should put in the missing box. Perhaps Dave can come give us a talk some time on CommerceNet's vision for the kind of repository we're trying to build at XML.org. You should also look at this draft in progress of the ebXML architecture: http://metalab.unc.edu/bosak/opaque/ebxml229.ppt I don't completely understand everything going on in this model, either, but the slides make clear the enabling role of the repository. The bottom line in both models is that you can't do business without a repository and that a repository of document types is just the ground floor of the eventual structure. Jon
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