- From: bhaugen <linkage@interaccess.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 06:19:23 -0600
- To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
Assaf Arkin wrote: > Some scenarios are defined by consortia and them get adopted by businesses. > For example RoessetaNet or supply chain management. In this case you have a > multi-party definition and each partner respects their role and don't try to > break it by having a more specific interaction that is different form what > every other partner (actual or possible) would expect. RosettaNet is an interesting case: the configurations are defined by the consortia, but all the interactions and coordination are strictly two-parties-at-a-time. So far the same is true for all the supply chain cofigurations I have worked on or seen. For example, Tony Fletcher and I designed some drop-ship configurations that broke a 4-party scenario into sets of 2-party interactions with all the coordination being the internal responsibility of the distributor. Then we found that Amazon uses almost exactly one of our hypothetical configurarions. (Except theirs is a little better...)
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