What might happen in a real business scenario if BPSS has IsLegallyBinding turned ON, CPA explicitly says there's no legal contract to be used, and something major goes wrong where as a result one of the 2 parties wants to take legal recourse. BPSS over-rides CPA ?
-Dave
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> From: Martin W Sachs [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 11:43 AM
> To: Dale Moberg
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> Subject: Re: TPA reference element?
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> We already have such an element although it is "hidden" :-)
> In the early
> versions of what became tpaML, we (IBM Res.) had a LegalText
> element. The
> spec stated that this could be used to record the ID of an
> accompanying
> paper contract. When people inside IBM started advising us
> not to tangle
> with the legal profession, we changed the element name to
> Comment and that
> has persisted into CPP-CPA V 1.0.
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> Since we have more recently seen that the legal community is in fact
> interested and friendly to us, I agree that we could add an element
> specifically for identifying an accompanying contract.
> Presumably, this
> element would be CPA-only. Since it would be directly under the root
> element, we can enforce the restriction to CPA only in the
> DTD and Schema.
> We probably should use the term "TPA" only as an example of such a
> contract.
>
> Regards,
> Marty
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> Dale Moberg <> on 06/26/2001 02:18:36 PM
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> Another issue for next month's kickoff--
> probably under the small additions category--
> is to add an optional element that can reference a TPA
> that is to be associated with a CPA.
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> Just as we now have pointers off to trading
> partner information, and business process specifications,
> a pointer to a TPA might also be useful.
> Some industry groups, RosettaNet for example,
> are exploring specifying TPAs
> for their communities in the near future.
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