taken by Peter Ogden
Marty Sachs (IBM)
Dale Moberg (Cyclone Commerce)
Peter Ogden (Cyclone Commerce)
Hima Mukkamala (Sybase)
Jean Zheng (Vitria)
There was some discussion about whether the end-stage negotiation (that which happens after both parties agree on a CPA) occurs differently based on whether the CPA is signed or not. It was decided that even in the case where the CPA is not signed, the party that sends the final proposal must receive a positive acknowledgement from the other party before the negotiation process can be considered complete. In other words, regardless of whether the parties finish with a signed CPA, the ending message flow is the same.
Negotiation Messages
Document
Hima asked about the difference between Business Information and Business Document. Business Information is what’s contained in the negotiation message, Business Document is an attachment. He also pointed out that Business Information needs to contain an indication of whether or not the document is signed.
We decided to move Negotiation Content into Business Information area of message, thereby reducing the overall schema count by one.
Marty asked for any additional comments on Jean’s Messages document; receiving none, he declared we have consensus on the message content. Jean thinks that she can have next iteration done in about a month.
Hima’s BPSS document should be done next week; Marty solicited help formatting the XML so that it can be legibly inserted into a document.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:45pm EDT.