ebXML   masters by research in Computer Science  by Sacha Schlegel
   http://www.schlegel.li/ebXML/index.html    is the homepage of this project.

 M E E T I N G
 
m e e t i n g . h e a d e r  
  
date:    22nd May 2002
week:    21
report:    ???
location:    Market Street Caffee, Fremantle
person:    Tim McGrath, supervisor
Sacha Schlegel, student
 
m e e t i n g . a c t i v i t i e s  
  
  • catch up last weeks
  • Big Time Table
  • Candidacy Report:
    • Outline (not Curtin ready yet)
    • First step to write literature review .. feedback from Tim.
    • Postgraduate report for Tim.
  • Administrative: CR External Associates Supervisor form
  • Administrative: Tim has CV, address and letter indicating his willness to support this study.
  • Administrative: Next meeting: 28th May or 4th June
  • TIM: NOIE update from Tim and ebXML projects within NOIE
  • Question:
    • What kind of journals, magazines for further information (agreement, negotiation) ?
    • Resources for information on "how to get an electronic agreement".
    • Resources for negotiation processes
    • What tools for the documentation did you use in the ebXML specifcation processes?
 
m e e t i n g . n o t e s  
Prof. Roger Clarke's homepage (Australian National University) is a good source for ecommerce academic studies (link follows).
Tim is away (around the world business trip) and comes back 13th June 2002. Next meeting fixed for 14th! June 2002 at 13.30 at the Street Market Caffee, Fremantle. Tim will see Brian Hayes who is doing a PhD in the area of ebXML and who works for Commerece One!
Q: documentation tool at ebXML spec process: PDF reader, mostly word/staroffice writer incl. line-number.
Q: journals: Tim will mail me a link of a good online magazine in the b2b area.
Q: NOIE: they have some 4 projects. One is to provide an web service to a) upload a CPP and b) to create one. As a logical followup on this project a tool for the creation of a CPA might be interesting. Other than that there are no immediate news.
Topic related discussion:

This project is about to get a CPA in the end. There are various issues on how to get the CPA. Negotiation of the CPA is the interesting one. There are maybe different layers of the CPA and maybe one could start from layer 1 onwards.
  1. Technical level (this could be the simple algorithm which takes two files and spites out one file).
  2. Business process negotiation level (example of when you use this way of sending goods that is more difficult for me and I would have to charge more )
  3. Human level (negotiation over the phone to clarify things or to generally negotiate details of the CPA)
The whole negotiation as a business process. how to bootstrapping the negotiation process. e.g first to decide which negotiation process to take which itself is a negotiation.
It seems that during the project assumptions will become necessary to eliminate problematics just mentioned slightly above. This is to make sure the project gets somewhere as it seems the perfect, all generic solution is out of focus for this project.
A list of common problems might be good to have at hand.
Q: Possible to get real world CPP's, CPA's:

CPP generally yes but CPA might become confidential for companies. The ebXML mailinglists are a good access point.

Tim suggests to have some real world CPP's samples plus to know how to create one from a real world business scenario. Telstra, Australian National Bank and other companies might be willing to offer their CPP (maybe in another form). - Maybe OPTUS via the OPTUS contacts -
A list of common problems might be good to have at hand.
 
m e e t i n g . t o . d o . l i s t  
search for online magazines: kind of nature, science in the business area.
check a european online mag. named iem
check white papers of companies like IBM, SUN, TIBCO, ARIBA etc.
CPP/CPA samples check for case studies (maybe gov. studies).
check Trading Partner Agreements from the EDI area.
  


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