RE: Submissions for issues list.

["Boulmakoul, Abdel" <Abdel_Boulmakoul@hplb.hpl.hp.com>]

Bob Haugen wrote:
> What do you mean by "contractual information"?
> Technical contracts, a la Design By Contract, or economic contracts,
> like a yearly component contract or purchase order, or something else?
> Economic contracts have been a subject of ongoing work by the
> ebXML Business Process team.  You can see some evidence in
> the Contract Formation and Negotiation Patterns published as an 
> ebXML technical report: http://www.ebxml.org/specs/bpPATT.pdf 

> More working on economic contracts will be forthcoming in 
> wherever the ebXML-BP follow on activities end up.  If this group
> is interested, I will keep you in the loop.

Bob, 
Yes, I would like to be in the loop regarding the ebXML-BP activities.
In my e-mail, I was referring to economic contracts. I agree with you that
the ebXML Business Process team have been addressing contract formation.
But, I don't think they've defined what does the contract contain (They have
defined in detail what the business process contains).
My idea, was to extend CPA (which includes information/link to the Business
process) in away that can incorporate the notion of contractual obligations
(i.e. Obliged to pay).
So if you take in account just the operational part of a contract (i.e. what
it is expected to happen, Not the legal part), I think that we can enrich
the CPA to contain such information.

Abdel Boulmakoul



-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Haugen [mailto:linkage@interaccess.com]
Sent: 19 June 2001 19:04
To: ebxml-cppa@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: Submissions for issues list.


Abdel Boulmakoul wrote:
>It may be interesting if we can also discuss the idea of extending the CPA
>to include higher level abstractions like : Service information and
>contractual information.

What do you mean by "contractual information"?
Technical contracts, a la Design By Contract, or economic contracts,
like a yearly component contract or purchase order, or something else?

Economic contracts have been a subject of ongoing work by the
ebXML Business Process team.  You can see some evidence in
the Contract Formation and Negotiation Patterns published as an 
ebXML technical report:
http://www.ebxml.org/specs/bpPATT.pdf 

More working on economic contracts will be forthcoming in 
wherever the ebXML-BP followon activities end up.  If this group
is interested, I will keep you in the loop.

-Bob Haugen