ebXML CPPA Versions 1.0 and 2.0 are complete. Version 2.0 is an approved OASIS Standard. An ebXML CPPA Negotiation specification is currently under development. A maintenance 2.1 version will fix several minor errors that have been detected and resolved and add enhanced extensibility points to the schema.

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This work presumes that exchanges of business information in business collaborations will tend to be conducted in relatively static modes, with slowly changing configurations. Options and functionality will be deliberately changed, rather than dynamically reconfigured on a message-by-message basis. It also presumes that many businesses will be interested in monitoring the "messaging communications channel" parameters to see that agreed-upon levels of compliance and performance are maintained. It is also problematic how enthusiastically extremely dynamic modes of configuration (spontaneous collaboration) will be embraced by those interested in verification of agreed upon-behavior in business collaboration. Finally, the Negotiation protocol is to provide a highly automatic way to set up agreements for collaboration protocols, largely realizing the business advantages (lower management costs) promised by highly dynamic ("spontaneous") collaboration technologies.

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This technology can benefit end users now in reducing the costs of initial collaboration setup and in the management of the lifecycle of the configuration information. Monitored agreements may also be

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The maintenance and enhancement of this OASIS Standard should be of interest to ISVs seeking interoperable and standardized approaches to the configuration of heterogeneous yet interoperable software for enabling business collaboration.

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The ebXML Collaboration Protocol Profile and Agreement OASIS Standard provides definitions for the sets of information used in business collaborations. One set of information (the Profile) contains data about the business partners' technical capabilities to engage in electronic business collaborations with other partners.

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