(by Jean Zheng)

Neelakantan Kartha (Sterling)

Kevin Liu (SAP)

Heiko Ludwig (IBM)

Pallavi Malu (Intel)

Dale Moberg (Cyclone)

Peter Ogden (Cyclone)

Marty Sachs (IBM)

Jean Zheng (Vitria)

Kevin/SAP will host Feb. Conference Calls.

Marty reminded everyone that we would have half a day to discuss negotiation during our up-coming face to face meeting.

Dale’s suggestion (see email) that to use NDD for CPA Template as well as for CPPs have been agreed by all participants.

We continued with line-by-line review of Negotiation.req.03Jan02.doc, starting with section 2.11.

2.11 Basic Components

line 359: Dale got clarification from Marty that either BPSS or WSFL formatted process document is allowed.

Kartha inquired of BPSS adoption in the real world. Dale said some company has BPSS tools/products, but not sure if there are in production. Marty also mentioned that Arvola has said that RosettaNet 3.0 is using BPSS to describe processes.

Line 360-364: agreement on current wording and ideas.

Line 365: NCPA

Dale: NCPA itself shall not need to be negotiated, line 366 states ‘Ordinary CPA", while NCPA is not really "ordinary"; which means NCPA shall be accepted by all parties. How about the CPAID inside NCPA? Should it be a fixed value? We probably should consider NCPA as a nice-to-have feature, rather than a necessity.

Marty summarizes that NCPA is basically a Simple WSDL or SOAP or a simple default CPA, such that NDD can be exchanged and thus a negotiation can be underway.

Line 371 NDD

Add: NDD is the negotiation key to a particular CPP, describes what is negotiable in that CPP.

Line 374: should state that NDD can be used for either CPP or a CPA template. NDD for a CPA template lists items that the other party (the "submissive" one) can modify/do/add. The modifiable items are limited to the submissive party’s parameters only.

Most items on CPA template are set (take it or leave it), especially the parameters that describe the dominating party’s action.

Conclusion regarding NDD and CPA Template relationship: To take the simplest approach right now and keep our option open. CPA template is a limited version of normal negotiation.

Line 376 shall be used to describe NDD for CPA template. CPA template is just like a CPA with blanks for the submissive party to fill in.

Line 378: refers to the BPSS document for the business process that is being negotiated. It is not referring to the BPSS that will be contained in the NCPA, which describes the negotiation process itself.

Line 381: shall clarify that we are not physically modifying BPSS document for Version 1.

2.12 Negotiation Configurations

line 387-392

CPA Template is a special case of line 388 (one-on-one) or could it also be a special case of intermediary? This remained an open question at the end of the conference call; we will continue our discussion regarding this section next week.