Business to Business XML Data Communication Strategies BOF (b2bxml) Tuesday, March 28 at 1545-1800 ================================ CHAIR: Michael Condry DESCRIPTION: Recently many companies see advantages in using XML to represent data for web-based information exchanges, such as in Business-to-Business (B2B) communications. Strategies to address this are evolving, expoliting different technologies such as SOAP; however, the problem specification and protocol requirements need to be clarified by the IETF community before solutions are considered. This BOF discusses the problem space for B2B XML communications in order to determine the problem area requirements. We will examine existing B2B approaches to ensure that the problem space is well defined. Our goal will result in a charter to formulate suitable requirements for this space and potentially develop solutions that support these requirements. AGENDA: Minutes Presenter Topic ======= ============ ============================== 2 Michael Condry Agenda update & meeting goals 5 Joseph Reagle W3C issues and plans 5 Prasanta Behera Sample Problems 15 Larry Cable Customer Requirements 10 Larry Masinter Issues with HTTP as the substrate of a communication protocol 10 Carl Hewitt DOD Web Platform Requirements 10 Cameron Young Customer Requirements for large-scale, managed B2B services 10 Henry Lowe Additional Problem Space Examples 10 TBD W3C issues and plans 10 Don Box Solution Strategy: SOAP 10 Nick Kassem Solution Strategy: ebXML 10 Michi Henning Solution Strategy: CORBA/IIOP 35 Open Mike Discussion of Working Group Charter GOALS 1. Understand sample problems will including a business order request, Directory updates, others. 2. Key objective is to understand the requirements of the problems in encoding protocols data in XML based data for business to business transactions. 3. View existing strategies to clarify requirments. 4. Consider the charter of a working group to create these requirments if appropriate.