- From: Paul R Brown <prb@fivesight.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:51:12 -0600
- To: "Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler)" <RogerCutler@chevrontexaco.com>
- Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
Roger -- Your post of 2003-11-08: > Here is draft text for an EDI Stakeholder's Perspective. Note that > there are, as generally characterizes a stakeholder perspective, > elements drawn from multiple models. I have tried to call these out > explicitly where possible. > [... SNIP ...] More than a month has passed without any comment on the list, and I wanted to comment that I think you hit a very important and slippery nail on the head with this post. Supply chains typically require a level of lubrication with elbow grease far above that in application-to-application and most service-oriented scenarios, and that requirement increases with the number of participants. The reason is that you can't exclude the small participants: Excel over facsimile, hand-entered EDI over modem, bisync modems carrying LU traffic from old SAP installations, etc. In addition to duplicating protocol and encoding considerations, any proposed successor to EDI systems must provide a clean mechanism for a human to patch into a running ecosystem, locate events, back messages out of one process, decant them into another, etc. -- essentially what you're saying. -- Paul
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