17:48 Fri 17 Sep 2004 REF:1UCACBR3 TO: Duane NICKULL cc HIN Consultants Vice-Chair UN/CEFACT OIC Management Committee UNITED NATIONS Duane - this is the third e-mail with some comments and suggestions for the draft UN/CEFACT Vision - Global Trade Facilitiation. R1 - What is the Problem ? R2 - The UN and Ports R3 - the UN/CEFACT slides - THIS E-MAIL Thank you for sharing it with me. I should have reviewed the slides before I sent the other two e-mails ! I really appreciate being able to read and understand both the objectives of the UN and UN/CEFACT and why we all need to work together to stand a chance to make the UN/CEFACT Vision a reality. I also know the difficulty of finding time to proof-read slides so I have taken the liberty of proof-reading each slide and offering suggestions such as including a reference page for e-Business initials and simplifying some of the words Although the power-point presentation has not been distributed I am broadcasting this e-mail to our contacts so that they can appreciate the tremendous work carried out by UN/CEFACT and yourself and the enormous challenges that still lie ahead. The draft Power-point Presentation has been placed on our web-site so that you can review it. I will send you a separate e-mail with the URL. That URL and Power-point presentation will not be distributed without your confirmation RELEASE UN/CEFACT VISION 2005 The OIC has presentations on Thu 23 Sep and Thu 28 Oct and if you were able to come to Australia on 28 Oct to release the UN/CEFACT Vision for Oceania we would provide you with an enthusiastic audience. OVERVIEW UN/CEFACT VISION 2005 There are 3 separate sections A "High Level Vision & Mandate" - should be widely distributed (9 excellent slides) - everyone will understand this section B "Model Driven Design - Business Collaboration Framework (UMM ? - BCM ?)" - I have made a comment on each slide - however this section may be for IT people only C "Components for Global Trade" Slides a Technical Architecture 3 b Registry 3 c Business Process 0 No slides d Core Components 5 e UN e-Docs 2 No examples f UN Lay-out Keys 2 No examples g Interoperability with Paper Trade 3 "Must Have" but no suggestions S1 PART A - HIGH LEVEL VISION & MANDATE It is the first time after over 15 years awareness of the UN and Global trade that I have learned: s3 The UN Charter s4 an understanding of the 6 United Nations Sub-group s5 that the role of the Sub-group 3 - The Economic & Social Council (UN/ECOSOC) - is to "promote economic growth and progress in the developing world" s6 that UN/CEFACT (United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitiation and Electronic Business) "supports activities dedicated to improving the ability of business, trade and administrative organisations, from developed, developing and transitional economies, to exchange products and relevants services effectively" s7 UN/CEFACT Mission and Focus. The Focus is very powerful and my suggestions for S28 and s30 slide are to complement and support that Focus s8 "Why we must integrate the Information Ecosystem - what we must do" is a brilliant slide s9 ""Its Principal focus is on facilitating National and International Transactions" - 5 excellent points but point 3 "Promoting" is the key - get that right and the rest will follow s10 PART B - MODEL DRIVEN DESIGN This section appears to be for technical people "Model Driven Design - Business Collaboration Framework (UMM - possibly better to use BCM to avoid confusion)" - I have made a comment on each slide - however this section is really for IT people only s11 Conceptual Model - Model Driven Approach There is a lot of good meat in this slide but most people will look at it in a glaze unless it is explained very clearly. If there is going to be an audio- commentary sent out with the slides this will be a very important slide. The slide will not have any impact without a audio--commentary or good explanation by the speaker s12 UN/CEFACT Modelling (one or two "ll"s ?) Methodology (UMM) ( - so thats where UMM comes in) 1 "Lexicon of an organisation" - organisation structure ? 2 "Technology Agnostic" Technology Neutral ? Technology Independent ? 3 "two main sets of artifacts" two complementary libraries - processes and templates ? s13 Additional Notes on UMM Modeler's should be Modelers (delete ' )(one "l" only) s14 UMM extends from the Open EDI Reference Model Any chance of web links to the named Standards so that people can refer to them while in the slide ? s15 PART C - COMPONENTS FOR GLOBAL TRADE s16 Initials and words used in this presentation Artifacts BIE Business Information Entity ebXML Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language MIG Management Information Group OASIS Oganisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards SOA Service Oriented Architecture TC Technical Committee TMG Technical Management Group XML Extensible Markup Language 16 a1/3 Technical Architecture "Need a newer architecture that accounts for electronic and paper trade facilitation" Agreed - possibly RUBAC ? s17 a2/3 Possible Conceptual View Technical Architecture s18 a3/3 SOA Functional Service View s19 b1/3 Registry s20 b2/3 Meta Data Registry published in "artifacts" - can we have description "artifacts" s21 b3/3 The Role of Global Registries (Capital G) s22 c?? Business Process - no slides s22 d1/5 Core Components s23 d2/5 Why Core Components ? s24 d3/5 What are Core Components ? "date" selected as example but no explanation s25 d4/5 Core Component Concepts s26 d5/5 Core Component Build Business Messages at Design Time "Date" chosen as example - appropriate to mention ISO 8601? s27 e1/2 UNeDocs s28 e2/2 No slide Suggest using Ships Manifest and Airway Bill as UNeDocs s29 f1/2 UN Lay-out key s30 f2/2 No slide Suggest identifying format with XML Codes for Ships Manifest and Airway Bills s31 g1/3 Interoperability with Paper Trade s32 g2/3 Electronic to Paper to Electronic A "Must Have" Option s33 g3/3 Using Bar Codes and readers to Bridge the gap s34 UN Logo NEXT STEPS Duane - it is late on Fri and I want to get this off to you so that you can review it over the week-end. I think the slides are a really excellent way to explain the UN/CEFACT Vision. If you are able to come to Australia in Oct or November to release the UN/CEFACT Vision the OIC XML & E-commerce Special Interest group may be pleased to: 1 host your presentation 2 place the slide show permanently on the OIC XZIG Web site 3 advise 40, 000 e-mail contacts in Asia and 100,000 e-mail contacts World-wide of the UN/CEFACT Vision 2005 Regards Stephen GOULD Partner e-Projects HALISA INTERNATIONAL NETWORK 22:43 F 2004/09/17 Syd 2089 Time and date has to be linked to a universal location code so that the time differences can be automatically calculated for e-commerce transactions E: sggould@halisa.net W: SGG Expertise in E-commerce On 10 Sep 04, at 9:42, Duane Nickull wrote: > Stephen: > > I think that the UN is better equipped to deal with this issue. I have > been working with UN/CEFACT for a while and recently got elected as vice > chair. Attached is a "DRAFT" PPT explaining our vision. > > WRT one XML language, I respectfully submit that is flawed logic. > Einstein once said "When solving a problem, you must use different > thinking than you did when you created the problem". The problem is > that every single standard to date was designed with the notion that the > entire world should use one standard. ebXML was and is still the only > infrastructure that is built on a premise that one standard for business > transactions will never work. > > > Duane