Ford's BIC rep?
2001-12-14 07:49:27 Chuck Allen
Look in the acknowledgements section of the b2b conceptual model whitepaper:
http://www.businessinternetconsortium.org/members/docs/B2B%20Conceptual%20Model.pdf
Here's a Ford Case Study on the BIC website:
http://www.businessinternetconsortium.org/members/docs/Ford%20Case%20Study.pdf
Regarding the BIC discussions at the Summit. I'd characterize them as the all-to-frequent case of violent agreement. Representatives from ISO and ebXML didn't really disgree with the conceptual model presented - they were just concerned that there prior work wasn't sufficiently acknowledged. This was valid. The whitepaper should have acknowledged prior work. There also seemed to be competitive concerns. It was unfortunate that so much time was spent discussing organizational issues and not the fundamental model on which there was a good deal of agreement. My personal hope was that the model might have sparked useful discussion on layers where there are particular interoperability challenges.
My personal interest was in examining the relationship between the layers BIC calls 'Specialized Business Content/Specialized Business Process' and 'Universal Business Content/Universal Business Process'. The whitepaper points out the desirability for moving items from the specialized layer to the univeral layer. A good topic of discussion would have been to examine how exactly this will happen. Since there are a lot of vertical groups handling the specialized content/process, this is by definition a multi-lateral exercise. Unfortunately, there was not substantive examination of this at the submit. Unfortunately, the answer each of the related groups have for this is "join our group"!
Chuck Allen
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