- From: bhaugen <linkage@interaccess.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:42:30 -0600
- To: "Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler)" <RogerCutler@chevrontexaco.com>
- Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
Roger Cutler wrote: > This conversation is getting a bit cryptic, at least to me. Sorry. But the next paragraph looks like you got my point. (Others may have had other points._ > Incidentally, I looked at the source you linked to below > (http://www.gldialtone.com/UCCformation.htm) and I find it > pretty interesting. It occurs to me that it might be amusing > for someone with a background in this sort of thing to sit down > some rainy Saturday afternoon and illustrate how the five > elements of an offer (defined as "the demonstration of > willingness to enter into a contract") can be accomplished > by a Web service. More than just amusing, if you want to do business. > I think that the definition of the > contract itself is probably beyond a reasonable present > scope of Web services An order is a contract. A Purchase Order is an offer in an offer-acceptance business protocol. So people are doing it via EDI and RNet all the time. (Oil field service contracts are something else again...) -Bob Haugen
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