It is becoming critical for broad adoption among all partners – large or small - of a supply-chain, to handle differences in message flow capacity, intermittent connectivity, lack of static IP addresses or firewall restrictions.

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Review answers to the frequently asked questions below on the ebXML Messaging Services specification. Post new questions and additional comments at the FAQ Forum.

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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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