RE: Yunker (ebBP) 3/27/2005: Acknowledgements....

["Yunker, John" <yunker@amazon.com>]

>    * Who owns the responsibility for sending the business document? I
>      indicated it is the abstract business partner (and the bound role
>      in the BTA).

The bound role makes sense, although remember that there are separate business agreements that stipulate business responsibility, including any contractual commitments.  The originating business document will trigger a chain of protocol specified responding documents and subsequent transactions, as well as the roles bound to those transactions.  The (separate) business contract specifies business responsibility to participate.

>    * What happens if AA received before RA? I indicated to Sacha that
>      typically, depending on partner agreement, requesting party would
>      recognize that the business document had been successfully
>      received and processed. In some cases, the requesting party may
>      wait (if no timeout), for the RA as it may be handled by different
>      systems.

It should be our expectation that protocol engines will be able to deal with AA / RA receipt precedence, since many B2B systems are completely asynchronous there is no way to guarantee that physical receipt will be sequenced, only that logical receipt will be sequenced.  My preference is that either best practice or specification would stipulate the ability to survive AA / RA ordering, as long as they are received within the time-out periods. (maybe we should discuss how best to specify)

-----Original Message-----
From: Monica J. Martin [mailto:Monica.Martin@Sun.COM] 
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 9:30 PM
To: Yunker, John
Cc: Sacha Schlegel; ebXML BP
Subject: Yunker (ebBP) 3/27/2005: Acknowledgements....



> mm1: 3/7/2005 At BPMI last week, John, Sacha and I discussed
> acknowledgements and backend system/middleware coordination.  Sacha 
> raised a few questions, that I think you could assist in providing 
> comment on:
>
>    * Who owns the responsibility for sending the business document? I
>      indicated it is the abstract business partner (and the bound role
>      in the BTA).
>    * What happens if AA received before RA? I indicated to Sacha that
>      typically, depending on partner agreement, requesting party would
>      recognize that the business document had been successfully
>      received and processed. In some cases, the requesting party may
>      wait (if no timeout), for the RA as it may be handled by different
>      systems.
>
> Any feedback would be appreciated.
>
mm2: John, any feedback here? Thanks.