ebBP 3/31/2005: Comment re: Bound Roles and Sending the BusinessMessage (wd10-schema 2/22)

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

At the BPMI Think Tank, Sacha Schlegel raised this question, which we 
discussed with John Yunker. 

    Who owns the responsibility for sending the business document?

At a minimum, this question has two answers:

    * The abstract business partner (and the bound role in the BTA) [Martin]
    * Separate business agreements that stipulate business
      responsibility, including any contractual commitments may apply.
      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. [Yunker]

To add additional description may be beneficial. Therefore, a proposed 
technical specification is found below for comment and suggestions. We 
will discuss in next Tuesday's call (5 April 2005).

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Section 4.6.6.7 [1]
Business Transaction Activity
Change from:
The business transaction activity convey additional semantics that 
configure the particular performance of the business transaction it 
references.

Change to:
The business transaction activity conveys additional semantics that 
configure the particular performance of the business transaction it 
references. The BTA binds each abstract business partner to a role.

Section 4.6.6.7 [2]
Business Transaction Activity
[Add as next to the last paragraph in this section. Note, the end of 
this section references hasLegalIntent.]
Separate agreements may define business responsibility, including 
criteria for participation. The requesting logical business document can 
trigger a chain of protocol-specified responding documents and 
subsequent business transactions. Roles are bound to those business 
transactions.
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