Re: EDI and Use Cases

* Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler) <RogerCutler@chevrontexaco.com> [2002-04-02 13:46-0600]
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> I am, however, a bit concerned about two other issues that appear to be
> important to EDI.  The first may be trivial, the second may be impossible --
> but they are both things that seem to be heavy hitters in terms of what is
> expected from a VAN so let me get them on the table for comment:
> 
> 1 - Unique message ID and sequencing.  It is very important to be able to
> identify a message uniquely, and this identification is generally contained
> in the enveloping mechanism.  (There are usually other ID's in the body, but
> this is clearly beyond the scope of the infrastructure).  The unique
> identification is commonly done by the combination of "To", "From" and a
> sequential "control number".  This facilitates queries like, "Did you get
> message N sent from A to B?"  "What messages of those sent from A to B are
> between N and M?" and so on.  In addition, the datetime of message envelope
> creation (not necessarily the datetime sent) is also important.  As in "What
> messages were created on Tuesday by A?"  As I understand it, the sequencing
> is logical, not a guarantee of order of delivery.  However, in some cases
> (as I understand it, this is unusual) the sequencing may be required.  That
> is, control number 21 is not a valid message unless (or until?) 20 has been
> received.

Identifying messages is a good idea. On the Web, the natural way to do
this is to use URIs.

* Damodaran, Suresh <Suresh_Damodaran@stercomm.com> [2002-04-04 10:00-0600]
[..]
> ebXML Messaging  2.0 specification (the latest version under review)
> requires a GUID (globally unique id) for all messages.
> 
> 3.1.6.1 MessageId Element
> The REQUIRED element MessageId is a globally unique identifier for each
> message conforming to MessageId [RFC2822]. 

In ebXML Messaging  2.0, the message identifier is not expressed as a
URI AFAICT, but could be with the mid scheme[1].

Regards,

Hugo

  1. http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/uri/rfc2111.txt
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