Suggestions from Karsten Riemenr

[Martin W Sachs <mwsachs@us.ibm.com>]

I have received the following suggestions from Karsten Riemer:

1. Use of the 'substitution' capability that was added to BPSS at Vienna.
In
general this expands to how to have generic business processes, and yet
have
easy to process specializations of those for the specific partners.

2. Alignment with WSDL. Generically this expands to how to best register
the
metadata about a partner's capabilities relative to the BP and its
documents.

3. Alignment with other BP languages like BPML and WFSL. This may seem like
more of a pure BP issue. But actually BPML may play an important role in
describing what specifically a partner will do internally in response to an
ebXML exchange. Generically this expands to how we apply XML to the link
between b2b and EAI.

4. Specification of a Business Service Interface. ebXML phase one shyed
away
from specificying the actual software architecture. We just hinted that a
BSI
is configured with a CPP. Someone, probably in OASIS should step up to this
task.

Items 2 and 4 are clearly CPP-CPA issues.  Item 4 should be joint work
among CPPA, MSG, and BP.
I am less certain about items 1 and 3.  I look forward to having Karsten
participate and explain.


Regards,
Marty

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