Abdel Boulmakoul, HP abdel_boulmakoul@hp.com

Paul Bussey, Cyclone Commerce pbussey@cyclonecommerce.com

Arvola Chan, Tibco / RosettaNet arvola@tibco.com

Tim Collier, Intel Timothy.R.Collier@intel.com

Tony Fletcher, BT tony.am.fletcher@bt.com

Brian Hayes, Commerce One Brian.Hayes@commerceone.com

Neelakantan Kartha, Sterling Commerce N.Kartha@stercomm.com

Pallavi Malu, Intel pallavi.g.malu@intel.com

Dale Moberg, Cyclone Commerce dmoberg@cyclonecommerce.com

Peter Ogden, Cyclone Commerce pogden@cyclonecommerce.com

Karsten Riemer, Sun KARSTEN.RIEMER@SUN.COM

Marty Sachs, IBM mwsachs@us.ibm.com

Yukinori Saito, ECOM y-saito@ecom.jp

Jeff Turpin, Cyclone Commerce jturpin@cyclonecommerce.com

Tony Weida, EDIFECS TonyW@edifecs.com

Pete Wenzel, RosettaNet / SeeBeyond pete.wenzel@rosettanet.org

Jean Zheng, Vitria jzheng@vitria.com

Sinisa Zimek, SAP sinisa.zimek@sap.com

Karl Best, OASIS karl.best@oasis-open.org

James Bryce Clark, McLure Moynihan jamie.clark@mmiec.com

Suresh Damodaran, Sterling Commerce suresh_damodaran@stercomm.com

Engkee Kwang, Vitria ekwang@vitria.com

Kevin Liu, SAP kevin.liu@sap.com

Himagiri Mukkamala, Sybase himagiri@sybase.com

Nita Sharma, IONA nsharma@netfish.com

Michael Wang, Tibco mwang@tibco.com

Following is an excerpt from the minutes covering the negotiation discussion.

Tony F. observed that we might need to allow ranges in CPPs, e.g., to specify a minimum and maximum number of retries.

Marty thought we could have flags indicating what's negotiable and what's not. He also said that IBM is looking at electronic Service Level Agreements.

Dale gave another presentation on CPA negotiation that was more focused on potential tasks. For details see:

Dale suggested that one could generate a CPP as part of B2BI software installation process. Tony W. mentioned the complication that in general a CPP could represent capabilities implemented by multiple software systems (which might yield to a CPP merger tool).

We discussed the prospects for partner discovery via profiles stored in registries. One caller thought the prospects were very long term. Dale mentioned the prospective use for spontaneous e-commerce. Tony W. mentioned the case where discovery of capabilities takes place within reasonably large, closed communities of partners already generally known to each other (such as RosettaNet IT industry members).

A caller asked about the use case for creating a CPA from a CPP. Marty thought it was possible, but not so interesting since a dominant partner is more likely to use a CPA template.

Brian felt we’d be well served to have more than one default negotiation process: one based on the ebXML message protocol, and others based on something light weight such as email.