Re: CDL Challenge

A comment from a legal perspective which for obvious reasons is 
important for global ecommerce.

david.burdett@commerceone.com wrote:

>>>>Nick any comments from you and/or David?<<<
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>A few ... ;)
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>The real question we need to answer is what should be the "primitives" in CDL. For example all of the following *could be*:
>1. A "one-way" fire & forget message
>2. A "request-response" where a message is sent and a response should be received
>3. A "one-way reliable message" where a message is sent and resent until an acknowledgement is received
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(4)
I would like to add another primitive which is so importants that it is 
mentioned in national, international LAW and in UN Recommendations 26 
and 31, The *Acknowledge of Receipt* signal.
This primitives purpose is to provide recognition and evidence that the 
reach-event has occured at indended addressee. With or without signature 
it provide a degree of non-repudiation.

A sideeffect which is important for business automation purposes is that 
it increases the probability that the sender and indended addresses has 
the same information and is confident that they do. A technologist may 
view it as a form of state-alignment.

This primitive is similar to 3 but not the same and it has a direct 
relation to business and legal considerations.
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>The disadvantage of having several primitives are primarily around: deciding which ones to include, knowing that we have included the ones we "need" to, and allowing additional primitives to be added over time.
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The above primitive wont go away and change anytime soon since it 
depends on LAW.

For US it is also part of the UNIFORM ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS ACT (1999)
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Thanks
/anders

Received on Tuesday, 6 July 2004 05:01:43 UTC