RE: ebXML call

[Bill Pope <bpope@bowstreet.com>]

I concur with the thoughts expressed below.  
Well done Mark!
 
=bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Little [mailto:mcl@arjuna.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 10:56 AM
> To: BTP
> Subject: ebXML call
> 
> 
> Owing to personal commitments (dealing with a 7 year old 
> throwing up all
> day!) I won't be able to make the ebXML teleconference. (And 
> believe me I'd
> love to attend compared to what I'm going to have to deal with ;-)
> 
> However, I've talked briefly to Alastair and Peter and I 
> think we are in
> broad agreement on some of the issues to do with 
> "interworking". I also
> agree with the email Alastair sent round earlier.
> 
> It may be sacrilege to say this, but I think that ebXML 
> stands a good chance
> of being one of the many X-based protocols that doesn't have 
> as much take-up
> as its proponents think. Unlike BTP, which has a (relatively) 
> rich history
> of useage outside web services (I can point to many instances 
> of roughly
> equivalent extended transaction functionality that have been 
> in used for
> decades) and therefore has a proven background and 
> requirement, I'm not 100%
> convinced that ebXML can say the same: true B2B is still a 
> virgin territory.
> As such, I wouldn't be surprised if ebXML went through 
> several revisions
> over the coming months/years, not to fix "bugs" but simply to 
> add required
> functionality or remove functionality. Tying BTP to ebXML, 
> therefore, would
> reduce its take up IMO. As we have said from the outset, 
> there are good
> reasons why we do not want to mandate a specific mapping of 
> BTP, and saying
> "you must use ebXML" is obviously going against this. Saying 
> "you may", and
> looking at how this could happen is a useful piece of work 
> (as long as doing
> so does not delay the adoption date of BTP).
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Mark.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> Dr. Mark Little (mark@arjuna.com)
> Transactions Architect, HP Arjuna Labs
> Phone +44 191 2064538
> Fax   +44 191 2064203
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