Hello Abdallah,
SrNP is proposed by Tequila and is not an open standard. For more
information, have a look at the Tequila site and deliverable D1.2:
http://www.ist-tequila.org/ Project results/Deliverables
Best regards,
Hamid Asgari
-----Original Message-----
From: Abdallah Rayhan [mailto:arayhan@nortelnetworks.com]
Sent: 02 April 2001 21:01
To: sls@ist-tequila.org
Subject: Re: [tequila/sls] comments on SLS scope
Panos Georgatsos wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Bandler, Paul wrote:
>
> > Forgive my intrusion on this discussion (I am normally a silent and
> > infrequent monitor of this list), but if I understand correctly, the
> > discussion is about how to go about producing a standardized framework
for
> > negotiating SLS which will lead to contractual SLA's between service
> > providers and customers right? Also you're considering the role of
> > modelling to represent a semantic model of the universe of discourse and
> > then possibly using XML as a data exchange and possibly storage
format....
> > Well, in that case is it not reasonable to consider SLS/SLA negotiation
as a
> > vertical market application of any eCommerce transaction and align with
the
> > ebXML (http://www.ebxml.org/index.htm) efforts to create a standard
> > approach, framework and communication infrastructure for eCommerce?
>
> Your proposal indeed makes sense and it should be sought for.
>
> ebXML has been considered for providing the underlying reliable message
> exchange service required for exchanging the service negotiation messages
> between a customer and a provider. In fact, we have specified a service
> negotiation protocol (SrNP) for negotiating the TEQUILA SLSs, where we
have
> specified exactly the interfaces to a reliable message exchange service
(such as
> ebXML). However, I think, the current ebXML specifications are not
suitable for
> B-C type of communication, as it is the case in SLS negotiation.
Therefore, in
> the current implementation of SrNP, we have specified and developed a
message
> exchange service (ala ebXML, also capable for B-C communication) based on
http
> or on tcp.
>
Is SrNP a proprietary protocol or an open standard?
regards
Abdallah
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