SC 32/WG 1 e-Business StandardsPrepared for:22 June 2009 WG 1 Tutorial

Wenfeng Sun, ConvenorChina National Institute of Standardizationsunwf@cnis.gov.cn22 June 2009

32N1890

ISO e-Business StandardsISO/IEC 14662 Information technology – Open-edi

reference modelISO/IEC 15944 Information technology - Business

Operational View:• Part 1: Business Operational aspects of Open-edi for implementation

• Part 2: Registration of scenarios and their components as business objects

• Part 3: Open-edi description techniques (OeDT)

• Part 4: Business transactional scenarios - Accounting and economic ontology

• Part 5: Identification and referencing of requirements of jurisdictional domains as sources external constraints

• Part 6: Technical Introduction of eBusiness modelling

• Part 7: eBusiness vocabulary

• Part 8: Identification of privacy requirements as external constraints on business transactions

• Part 9: Open-edi traceability framework

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Open-edi Reference Model

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ISO/IEC 14662 - Open-edi Reference Model

Targeted for FDIS ballot of third edition Single English/French document Based on second edition (English) + French text of the

first edition, amended according to the second English edition

No technical changes Update references and dates for standards referenced

in Clause 3 Terms and Definitions Update format in accordance with JTC1 It is noted that the 2nd edition (2004) is up for review no

later than 2009 anyway

ISO/IEC 15944 Part 1 - Operational aspects of Open-edi for implementation

Targeted to FDIS ballot of second edition Incorporate Technical Corrigenda (3-level ToC) Specifying “person” as “Person” where appropriate Updating for consistency with all parts of 15944 and

the proposed third edition of 14662 Update all references, footnotes, citations as

required to incorporate or reflect changes in ISO standards and other documents referenced.

Ensure that the distinction between Clause 2 and References/Bibliography is clearly delineated and both are complete.

Insert definition for “Open-edi Support Infrastructure” after 3.41. This concept is used in several other clauses and thus should be included in this Part.

Amend Annex A.5 “Consolidated List of …. Terms and Definitions” to include added columns for (a) gender codes for the terms; and, (b) Part 7 eBusiness Vocabulary Ids

It is noted that the revisions to this proposed second edition are mostly editorial and that this standard is due for review anyway.

Part 2 – Registration of scenarios and their components as business objects

Targeted at a new version containing changes: Studying whether or not a RA is needed for the

registration of business scenarios and there components. liaison request sent to ISO TC 211 for a case study of registration.

Update of Annex C according to review of existing Part 4 and Part 6 to achieve consistency

Other Editorial changes.

Part 3 - Open-edi Description Techniques

Designed to integrate the largely conceptual structures of open-edi into the UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology (the UMM) for business collaborations.

Both standards have already been aligned in multiple places because of common traditions and legacies, common workgroup members, and common sets of ideas.

The computing mechanism of business objects with specified state machine mechanics has been explored in both groups for multiple years. These state machine mechanics also use a deep legacy of ideas from 15944-1.

Part 3 - Open-edi Description Techniques

CD2 CD3 status In CD2:

Incorporates UN/CEFACE Modeling Methodology (for business process specification) by reference

• UMM Meta Model - Base Module• UMM Meta Model - Foundation Module

Integrates ITU-T External Terminology Schema data design methodology into the UMM Business Information View

Category C liaison for this collaboration has been established under the auspices of the MoU between IEC, ISO, ITU and UN/ECE Concerning Standardization in the Field of Electronic Business

Project editor Paul Levine, retired in February, 2009

Part 3 - Open-edi Description Techniques

CD2 CD3 status Changes towards CD3:

New project editor William McCarthy, who has been a contributing member to UN/CEFACT standards for 7 years and who is also the editor for part 4 of open-edi (15944-4). McCarthy is also the lead editor for the UMM specialization document dealing with the REA ontology

Resolution in WG1 Ottawa meeting in February 2009:• Not to reference the ITU ETS model.• It is thought best to reference only the UMM in the 3rd CD, which is being

maintained by UN/CEFACT and liaised by Bill McCarthy.

Part 4 - the Open-edi Accounting & Economic Ontology

No updates General view of part 4

Ontology of Open-edi concepts Use REA as an ontological framework Independent view of the Business collaboration, instead of the trader

partner view. Central concept: Open-edi Business Transaction Ontology (OeBTO)

“Formal, rule-based, specification and definition of the concepts pertaining to business transactions and scenarios and the relationships that hold among those concepts.”

Incorporates commitment exchange, in addition to information exchange Requires the use of clear and pre-defined rules, principles, and guidelines Neutral in terms of technology, representation, and application Covers all areas of business transactions The semantics of the concepts represented in the OeBTO are explicitly

specified and constrained. Declarative Component of OeBTO, & Procedural component of an

OeBTO

Part 5 – identification and referencing of requirements of jurisdictional domain as sources of external constraints

No updates Objectives of Part 5

Introduction of external constraints in business transaction modeling

Address specific aspects of business agreement semantic descriptive techniques in order to be able to support legal requirements in modeling business transactions

Present a methodology and tools for specifying common classes of external constraints through the construct of “jurisdictional domain” (with various levels and categories of jurisdictional domains)

Demonstrate that external constraints of a jurisdictional domain lend themselves to being modeled through scenarios and scenario components (already demonstrated in Annex I, Part 1)

Part 5 – identification and referencing of requirements of jurisdictional domain as sources of external constraints

Major Topics of Part 5 Key common requirements of jurisdictional domains include:

• that of official language(s) or if not applicable, its de facto language

• that of the need to be able to differentiate when a Person in a business transaction in the role of “buyer” is an individual

• that where an individual if a party to a business transaction common public policy requirements apply as external constraints including consumer protection, privacy protection, individual accessibility, and other rights that a “human being” has.

Focus on ensuring unambiguity in the semantic components and information bundles comprising a business transaction as these are used in the making of binding “commitments”

Extensive work on “official, de facto and “legally recognized languages (LRL)”, importance of gender in language to support semantic unambiguity, use of human interface equivalents(HIEs)

Extensive set of detailed normative and informative Annexes

Part 5 – identification and referencing of requirements of jurisdictional domain as sources of external constraints

Example of business transaction modelling with internal constraints only [see Figure 4] and then with external constraints [see Figure 6] in a “collaboration space”

. [Part 5,Figure 4 - Accounting and economic ontology (internal constraints only): Buyer, seller and common collaboration space with a third party

(Graphic illustration)]

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Buyer Seller

Third Party

Collaboration Space

Part 5 – identification and referencing of requirements of jurisdictional domain as sources of external constraints

Example of business transaction modelling with internal constraints only [see Figure 4] and then with external constraints [see Figure 6] in a “collaboration space”

Part 5, Figure 6 — Accounting and economic ontology with external constraints: Common Collaboration Space — Buyer, Seller and Regulator utilizing a Third Party (Graphic Illustration)

Buyer SellerValue Exchange

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Regulator

Collaboration Space

Part 6 - Technical Introduction of eBusiness modelling

DTR ballot approved as a TR type 2 in February 2009

Objectives of this TR Introduction to common understandings of Business

Modeling for the inter-enterprise Business Collaborations

Modeling Guideline particularly focused on the inter-enterprise business process in a collaboration space where buyer, seller and various third party are involved

Major topics Concepts and Principles of e-Business Modeling Classification Scheme to identify the class and type

of Business Transactions Key Attributes for Classification of Business

Transactions Project editor K.Morita, resigned from WG1

Part 7 - eBusiness Vocabulary

Objectives In FDIS ballot process Single consolidated vocabulary of eBusiness concepts (their definitions

and terms) as found in the ISO/IEC 14662 Open-edi Reference Model and the existing Parts of the multipart ISO/IEC 15944 eBusiness standard (including definitions and their terms used taken from other int’l ISO standards)

Provide rules, guidelines and procedures governing the formation of definitions for concepts relevant to eBusiness and choice of associated terms as a single harmonized and integrated controlled vocabulary. This includes rules governing multilingual expandability that integrate and support cultural adaptability requirements via human interface equivalents (HIEs)

Identify the essential data elements for each entry, their rules and specifications as well as rules for ensuring quality and integrity control requirements for each entry and their interworking doing so in an IT-enabled manner.

1st edition already contains Chinese, English, French & Russian equivalents for eBusiness concepts and their definitions as well as (grammatical) gender codes for terms where applicable in a language

Part 8 Identification of privacy requirement as external constraints on business transactions

Working towards a FCD Objectives

Provide method(s), rules required to support the additional BOV specifications applicable to the recorded information in a business transaction where such is of the nature of “personal information”, i.e. pertaining to an identifiable “individual”

Provide fundamental principles governing privacy protection requirements in business transactions (external constraints perspective only)

Integrate normative and informative elements in support of privacy and data protection requirements (as already found in ISO/IEC 14662 and existing Parts of ISO/IEC 15944 into a single document (These constitute 90%+ of the CD document)

Focus on identifiable living individuals as buyers in a business transaction

Link to information management life cycle (ILCM) requirements but focus on “collaboration space” aspects and not internal behaviors of an organization or public administration (that are excluded as are Functional Service View (FSV) aspects including security services)

Part 9: Open-edi traceability framework

Project subdivision approved at Sydney meeting.

Project suspended because of the resign of K. Morita from WG1.

sunwf@cnis.gov.cn