- From: Anders W. Tell <opensource@toolsmiths.se>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:05:52 +0100
- To: public-ws-chor-comments@w3.org, public-ws-chor@w3.org
Dear CDL team, The WS-CDL specification (Web Services Choreography Description Language version 1.0 W3C Last Call Draft 17 December 2004 http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-ws-cdl-10-20041217/) should state the relationship between WS-CDL and the UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology (UMM) UN/CEFACT is the international standards body that is responsible for e-business standards such as EDIFACT, the most widely used business document standard in use today. As part of the support for a continous technology evolution, UN/CEFACT has developed a technology neutral and model driven approach to the development of business information and process standards. Functional services and deployment technologies such as EDIFACT, ebXML, and Web Services can be generated from models and libraries. UN/CEFACTs’ existing library of business semantics, and all new work will be represented as business collaboration models. It is recommended that to chapter "1.5 Relationship with Business Process Languages" add a reference to UN/CEFACT Modelling Methodology (UMM). <http://www.unece.org/cefact/umm/umm_index.htm> <http://www.unece.org/cefact/umm/ch1_intro.pdf> As well as describing that CDL is not "executable business process description language" a reference to UN:s business collaboration methodology (based UML) that aims at specifying business processes from a global business and legal point of view. Within the UMM framwork, mappings to realization technologies are a key component and CDL with its goal of specifying exchanges of information is a key target. Therfore UMM fits as natural component uppwards in any collaborative business information systems stack. Its add business semantics and motivation behind any exchange of information. best regards /anders Vice chair UN/CEFACT TMG
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