Buyer / Seller / Provider Re-Design

Hi All,

Following up on a thread which went stale back in June, Vicki and Dan @ Google + myself formalized the prior public discussions into a pair of alternative vocabulary re-designs.  We then generated a (hopefully) canonical set of use cases to help validate and map those alternatives.  We would like to re-start the stale discussion using this more formal proposal in the hopes that we can drive consensus ASAP.

https://www.w3.org/wiki/File:ProviderSellerVocabularyRe-DesignProposal.pdf

Please read through the PDF and ...
- provide feedback on the proposed model of exchanges
- provide feedback on the two alternative proposals, ideally favoring one more than the other (we can't decide ourselves)
- review the canonical examples we have generated and share any that we are missing - especially if neither alternative vocab addresses them

We hope to move forward with one of these solutions ASAP and look forward to your input!

Thank you,

Jason Johnson
Microsoft