[OASIS Issue Tracker] (UBL-2) Documents for party information exchange

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Ken Holman commented on UBL-2:
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I support a single new document for exchanging party information, but I am not convinced that everything about the party belongs inside the Party ABIE.

As Tim says in his comment 23/Aug/16 12:31AM, these should be extensions of the existing Party structures, and not simply adding more fields to Party.  Those fields are not appropriate for other uses of Party.

An example is the CustomerParty:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.1/mod/summary/reports/UBL-AllDocuments-2.1.html#t-CommonLibrary-552

Here the Party element is being extended for its context of use of being a customer.

As you already noted, the Party ABIE already has a web site value.  Perhaps, then, the social media stuff could go *in* the party.  But I worry about it being simply a BBIE because for any one social media presence there may be multiple pieces of information: if nothing else then both the name of network and the party's username on the network.  That would imply an ABIE and ASBIE.

In fact, any time one thinks of using 0..n on a BBIE it is most likely necessary to create a 0..n ASBIE and an ABIE because the concept may have many facets.  I think this is an example.

But I think services and EDI details are too fluid to be considered a description of the party ... it is a description of what the party does or how it works.  I think they should be outside of Party the way that CustomerParty has information that is outside of Party.

My comments are only modeling comments regarding how information is included, not semantic comments regarding what should be included.  I'm only distinguishing information that describes the party and information about the party that describes what they do and what changes about what they do.  I will leave it with Tim and others to comment on your choices of what information needs to be included.


> Documents for party information exchange
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>
>                 Key: UBL-2
>                 URL: https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/UBL-2
>             Project: OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) TC
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Documents and business objects
>            Reporter: Ken Holman
>            Assignee: Roberto Cisternino
>            Priority: Minor
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