RE: New work and loose ends

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

My replies embedded below, headed by MWS:

Regards,
Marty

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Martin W. Sachs
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Notes address:  Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM
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"Welsh, David" <David.Welsh@nordstrom.com> on 07/19/2001 09:15:06 PM

To:   Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM@IBMUS, ebxml-cppa@lists.oasis-open.org
cc:   "Bob Haugen (E-mail)" <linkage@interaccess.com>, "James Bryce Clark
      (E-mail 2)" <jamie.clark@mmiec.com>, "James Clark (E-mail)"
      <jdc-icot@lcc.net>, "Paul R. Levine (E-mail)" <plevine@telcordia.com>
Subject:  RE: New  work and loose ends



Marty,
Sorry to jump in, but I was trying to understand the frame of reference /
direction that's being used when it comes to the suggested changes / new
work items to ebXML CPA-CPP.
There seems to be a lot of 'really cool technical stuff' being proposed, no
doubt about it (!),

MWS:  Yes, part of the OASIS TC charter for (I believe) all the ebXML teams
is to develop new versions of the specification with new function.

but I've seen references being made to look at non-related ebXML /
"foreign" specifications in the CPPA TC work plan,

MWS:  True.  At the Vienna meeting, it was made clear that moving toward
convergence with related specifications, especially W3C, should be part of
the charter of all the teams.  Both CPPA and MSG have goals of this sort.

 where some of these reference topics (like WSFL) are still proprietary as
far as I
know.

MWS:  IBM's WSFL proposal is publicly available but so far, there is no
public standards body starting to work on it.

Is this a wish that the CPPA TC do a technology 'look ahead' to things that
might get commonly adopted like what SOAP eventually went thru, re W3C and
IPR, and / or is this meant as potential alignment efforts to own ebXML
developments; which may or may not eventually be something that's a 'out of
scope thing'.

MWS:  All will depend on the mind set of the teams after they start
working.

Maybe I'm still working off of the original ebXML concept that we're
focused on building upon established standards (ex. W3C, ISO, ..),

MWS:  I think it's fair to say "building upon established standards" and
developing function that might be useful in other standards arenas.

as opposed to what might one day become a standard (maybe), in the absence
of seeing anything mentioned to the contrary recently on the various ebXML
related news
lists.

Just asking !
All the best in your up coming meetings.
Thanks again
-Dave


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin W Sachs [mailto:mwsachs@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 11:37 AM
> To: ebxml-cppa@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: New work and loose ends
>
>
> I have attached two documents that discuss potential
> maintenance and new
> work items that I will review next week.
>
> Regards,
> Marty
>
> (See attached file: CPA-CPP-changes.pdf)List of work items as
> of the end of
> the Vienna ebXML meeting. This includes additional discussion
> of some items
> in the
>              CPPA.new.work document below
>
> (See attached file: CPPA.new.work.pdf)Summary of all proposed work and
> loose ends as of today. I will be using this as slides next week.
>
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> Martin W. Sachs
> IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
> P. O. B. 704
> Yorktown Hts, NY 10598
> 914-784-7287;  IBM tie line 863-7287
> Notes address:  Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM
> Internet address:  mwsachs @ us.ibm.com
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