Liaison Activity - WAS: [wsbpel] CEFACT Liaison Review

[Sid Askary <saskary@nuperus.com>]

As of today, there are 2 other general-purpose business process 
definition/choreography
languages under consideration in a standards body:  BPSS in OASIS and WSCI 
in W3C.  For
the near term, these and the associated underlying standards on which each 
is dependant
should be part of the liaison activity.  Everything else is non-normative 
and perhaps
out of scope for this group.

As for the difference between Liaison and Observer, I would say that in the 
former,
there is a great deal more cross-pollination and active engagement (in the 
form of
normative bi-directional presentations and mutual consideration, specific 
approaches,
etc.).  The purpose of this activity, in many cases, is the avoidance of 
the invention
of the perennial wheel.

While in the later, there is, at best, a one-way channel for allowing 
information
gathering by one party.  No feedback mechanism is deemed necessary.

My 0.02$

Sid Askary

At 10:30 AM 9/22/2003, David RR Webber - XML ebusiness wrote:
>Martin,
>
>CEFACT has launched a completely new direction, and
>made press releases, and made decision vis their
>relationship with OASIS  - since we made our decision.
>They have also had a Plenary meeting in Seoul, and
>more changes and items occurred there as well.  The
>bases have been moved.
>
>I think if we had known about these at the time - we would
>have deferred our decision until we had a better
>understanding.
>
>Essentially we made our decision in the dark - and we
>now need to re-visit in the light of these events over the
>last few weeks.
>
>Thanks, DW.
>======================================================
>Message text written by "Martin Chapman"
> >
>David,
>
>For those of us not closely connected with CEFACT, could you tell us what
>these unforeseen events are?
>Otherwise I'm not sure I have enough information at hand to decide
>accordingly.
>
>Cheers,
>  Martin.<
>
>
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