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The RosettaNet standard: what does the future hold? (q&a).

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This month's focus is on RosettaNet-related questions. As my company is a serious player in this market, I've received quite a few inquiries about the so-called lingua franca of supply chain software. I'd like to alert my readers, however, that many of the issues discussed stretch way beyond the smaller domain of RosettaNet and deep into the broader ocean we call the XML marketplace.

Let me begin with a quick paragraph on RosettaNet and then I'll respond to questions concerning schemas, DTDs, and all things PIP (Partner Interface Processes) related.

RosettaNet is a consortium of roughly 400 large supply chain companies from three major industries (semiconductor manufacturing, electronic components, and information technology). Their goal is to "create and implement industry-wide, open e-business process standards. These standards form a common e-business language, aligning processes between supply chain partners on a global basis" (from the RosettaNet Web site at www.rosettanet. org/rosettanet/Rooms/DisplayPages/ LayoutInitial).

In a nutshell, RosettaNet is striving to create a common set of standardized processes for the electronic sharing of information over the Internet or other electronic medium. Now, on to the questions ...

Q: HOW DO YOU THINK PIPS WILL EVOLVE?

A: PIPs are where the RosettaNet standard meets the road. PIPs are the implementable building blocks of RosettaNet-based transactions. In its simplest form a PIP represents the electronic version of a traditionally paper-based transaction. For example, purchase orders have traditionally existed as paper-based documents either mailed or faxed directly from buyer to seller. PIP 3A4 is an XML-based representation of that same paper document in electronic format....

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