Comments on ebXML Business Process Specification Schema Version 0.99

Comments on ebXML Business Process Specification Schema Version 0.99
(03/19/2001).

Line 666: The documentType should show ="ebXML1.0/Purchase Order"
(instead of PO Acknowledgement) since it is the
RequestingBusinessActivity starting the whole transaction.

But this prompts me to ask a stupid question,  inspired by an EDI
document centric suggestion I gave someone on EDI-L at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03097.html -i.e.,
how do you "signal" that a RequestingBusinessActivity has occurred when
the RequestingBusinessActivity documentType was never received? For
example, what if you want to send a PO Acknowledgement to a manually
called-in order?

Would that have to be modeled with a separate business transaction, or
is it assumed that an Order Entry system could trigger the successful
completion of the RequestingBusinessActivity within the Business Service
Interface?

William J. Kammerer
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