ASCCs/ASBIEs Revisited

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

Team,

We've had some open issues regarding the role and (perhaps) necessity of
Association Core Components (ASCCs) and Association Business Information
Entities (ASBIEs), as defined in the CCTS spec. I've delved further into
the CCTS spec and I believe I now understand the role of these 2
entities, and the necessity for their inclusion. I'd like to ensure that
before asking questions of the CCTS team, we've completely exhausted our
analysis of these issues (in a permissible amount of time).

Attached please a document that contains notes on ASCCs/ASBIEs that I
have extracted from the CCTS spec, along with "Notes for CC Review Team"
regarding our treatment of these entities. Please review and confirm
your understanding, or present any questions you have. See "BOTTOM LINE"
at end for more details.

Thanks,
Joe

BOTTOM LINE:

It appears that the transition from ACC to ABIE occurs when business
context is added, and that business context is one of the 8 predefined
context categories (Business Process, Product Classification, etc.).

It appears that the transition from ACC to ASCC occurs when business
context is added, but that business context is NOT one of the 8
predefined context categories. The same holds true for the transition
from ABIE to ASBIE - except that an ASBIE already incorporates one of
the 8 predefined context categories (by virtue of the fact that we are
starting with an ABIE).

I think we can represent ASCCs (created from ACCs) and ASBIEs (created
from ABIEs) with registry associations, while the transition from ACCs
to ABIEs can be represented by classifications (per the 8 context
categories). The path from ACC to ASBIE will therefore use both
associations and classifications - the order of which depends on whether
the path was:

ACC --> ABIE (classification) --> ASBIE (association)

OR

ACC --> ASCC (association) --> ASBIE (classification)

ASCC-ASBIE - Notes.doc

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