[ubl-comment] Fwd: RE: [EDI-L] ebXML CPA/CPP Estimate

[James Bryce Clark <jamie.clark@mmiec.com>]

Re-sent out of sequence to ubl-comment, for sake of
completeness, but only because it bounced the first time.  Mike's
answer already appears on list.  JBC

> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001
> 23:03:20 -0800
> To: EDI-L@yahoogroups.com, ubl-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
> From: James Bryce Clark <jbc@lawyer.com>
> Subject: RE: [EDI-L] ebXML CPA/CPP Estimate
> Cc: polivola@advsoftech.com, mike@rawlinsecconsulting.com
>
> At 10:17 PM 11/27/01, Peter Olivola wrote:
> > As you noted, Mike, the bulk of the
> > effort, whether EDI or ebXML or Ewok,
> > still gets down to, in it's simplest terms, a definition of "ship
> > date."
> > That's not a technical issue now and no flavor of XML will make it
> > one.  As
> > long as there is no agreement on common business terms there will be
> > little
> > advantage to one data format over 
> > another.
>  
> 1.  Peter is absolutely right.  
> 2.  Mike, or anyone, are those taxonomy issues in-scope for
> UBL?  I know you're defining a set of what xCBL calls
> "documents" but am less clear about plans to specify default or
> required codesets -- NAICS, UNSPSC, that sort of thing.  Certainly
> they are a key piece of the Big Puzzle.
> 3.  And if there's an EwokXML, sign me up.
>
> Regards   Jamie
>
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