- From: Howard N Smith <howard.smith@ontology.org>
- Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 22:51:00 +0000
- To: public-ws-chor@w3.org
Jon said: >I am curious why you'd regard these as requirements. The use case of, for example, bargaining over the terms of a transaction before completing it, has been contemplated and there is >standardization work going on in that area in the context of ebXML. However, this is probably beyond what most people now deploying B2B are doing. Real B2B in my experience currently >tends to involve parties that have pre-existing relationships (established non-electronically) and pre-negotiated terms. These are requirements because they occur in real business processes, and real business processes are what technologists should be focussed on supporting, not our ideas about how companies should and should not do B2B. I dont think B2B is the scope. I think BPM is the scope, and in BPM, a lot more happens than in narrower definitions of B2B. Howard --- New Book - Business Process Management: The Third Wave www.bpm3.com Howard Smith/CSC/BPMI.org cell +44 7711 594 494 (worldwide) home office +44 20 8660 1963
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