RE: Security Question

+1
abbie


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bhaugen [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:48 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Security Question
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> I'm with Mark and Roger on this: 
> > making the meaning of a message depend on something 
> > external to a message is a bad idea for lots of reasons.
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> In the prototypical purchase order situation,
> people seem to forget that an order is a legal contract.  
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> As ISO says, you're not just exchanging data,
> you're exchanging business commitments.
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> Every message exchanged is evidence.
> So are all the related schemas and metadata.
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> Ambiguity = more money for lawyers.
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> -Bob Haugen
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