Martin W Sachs wrote: > We don't require a CPA in messaging. We expended a great deal of time and > effort to make sure that the MSG spec is correct while not requiring a CPA By looking at some CPPA related passages in the v2 spec it is unclear whether MSH is not dependend on CPP and that there are no spillover effects. maybe there are more passages that need to be cleaned up. V2c section 1.2.2 line 353 "An ebMS-compliant MSH shall respect the in-force agreements between itself and any other ebMS compliant MSH with which it communicates. In broad terms, these agreements are expressed as Collaboration Protocol Agreements (CPA). This specification identifies the information that must be agreed. It does not specify the method or form used to create and maintain these agreements. It is assumed, in practice, the actual content of the contracts may be contained in initialization/configuration files, databases, or XML documents complying with the ebXML Collaboration Protocol Profile and Agreement Specification [ebCPP]. " . > Whether you want to advise users to configure their systems manually > instead of using a CPA is an entirely different question. Im sure you are aware of more ways than CPPA to configure a system and Im sure that more technologies will soon follow. > > It won't serve anyone well to pull V2 back from the OASIS approval process > at this point if that's what you have in mind. I agee we with you that it may not serve IBM well if V2 is pulled back for cleaning, but in relation to global ecommerce for SME's it may be of great and future benefit. The risk of doing business has increased the last week. Not all small and medium sized vendors producing software for SME's have an exact knowledge of US patent law , have team of lawyers and years of court experiance. Im not advocating stopping V2 but a short delay to change any sections that may cause future problems. Regards Anders > Regards, > Marty > > ************************************************************************************* > > Martin W. Sachs > IBM T. J. Watson Research Center > P. O. B. 704 > Yorktown Hts, NY 10598 > 914-784-7287; IBM tie line 863-7287 > Notes address: Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM > Internet address: mwsachs @ us.ibm.com > ************************************************************************************* > > > > David Fischer > <david@drummondgr To: ebXML Msg <
ebxml-msg@lists.oasis-open.org> > oup.com> cc: > Subject: [ebxml-msg] FW: [ebxml-cppa] IBM patent disclosure > 04/24/2002 09:49 > AM > > > > > > We need to seriously consider whether we require CPPA in Messaging. If IBM > requires a license to use CPPA, that could easily transfer to Messaging > based > upon this requirement. > > Regards, > > David Fischer > Drummond Group. > >