Re: [ebxml-bp] ebBP 11/1/2005: Brief Mention on Other CollaborationUse Cases

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

As an update, I would propose that we provide an additional reference 
and brief mention, recognizing the value of the examples in Robert 
Glushko's book. I've added a brief mention to the changes proposed and 
accepted for Section 3.4.1.  I'd appreciate any comments on this update.

Change to: (Change from in original message below)
A Business Collaboration is a set of Business Activities executing 
Business Transactions between business partners or collaborating 
parties. Each business partner plays one or more abstract partner roles 
in the Business Collaboration. The state of the Business Collaboration 
is logical between the parties interacting in a peer-to-peer rather than 
a controlled environment. The virtual state of the Business 
Collaboration lies with the involved partners.  Peer-to-peer 
collaboration may involve business partners as well as distributed 
collaborating parties. For the latter, one example may be 
cross-organizational collaboration between parties involved in technical 
publishing where the nested, complex activities may be required to 
support an authoring process. Cross-organizational collaboration may 
occur in many organizations, such as the many government departments and 
agencies enabling eGovernment.  The relevance of and use of the business 
transaction patterns in such an environment is discussed in the book by 
Robert Glushko and Tim McGrath, _Document Engineering - Analyzing and 
Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services_.

Footnote: 
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/%7Eglushko/DocumentEngineeringBookDraft/DEBook/ch9_FINAL.pdf 
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/%7Eglushko/DocumentEngineeringBookDraft/DEBook/ch10_FINAL.pdf 


> mm1: 11/1/2005 Given our comment and discussion on 
> cross-organizational processes, I've added this minor update to 
> Section 3.4.1. I am also reviewing the two chapters from Bob Glushko's 
> book to expand the description herein.  [1] I'll post that later today.
> ===========
> Section 3.4.1 Business Collaborations
> Change from:
> A Business Collaboration is a set of Business Activities executing 
> Business Transactions between business partners. Each business partner 
> plays one or more abstract partner roles in the Business 
> Collaboration. The state of the Business Collaboration is logical 
> between the parties interacting in a peer-to-peer rather than a 
> controlled environment. The virtual state of the Business 
> Collaboration lies with the involved partners.
>
> Change to:
> A Business Collaboration is a set of Business Activities executing 
> Business Transactions between business partners or collaborating 
> parties. Each business partner plays one or more abstract partner 
> roles in the Business Collaboration. The state of the Business 
> Collaboration is logical between the parties interacting in a 
> peer-to-peer rather than a controlled environment. The virtual state 
> of the Business Collaboration lies with the involved partners.  
> Peer-to-peer collaboration may involve business partners as well as 
> distributed collaborating parties. For the latter, one example may be 
> cross-organizational collaboration between parties involved in 
> technical publishing where the nested, complex activities may be 
> required to support an authoring process.
> ===========
>
> [1]  Chapter 9-10.
> http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/%7Eglushko/DocumentEngineeringBookDraft/DEBook/ch9_FINAL.pdf 
>
> http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/%7Eglushko/DocumentEngineeringBookDraft/DEBook/ch10_FINAL.pdf 
>
>