From: Roy Roebuck [roy(AT)one-world-is.org] Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 1:09 PM To: 'Michael Moore'; XML EDI Listserver (E-mail) Subject: RE: edXML and future business models

"Will every person become an autonomous independent plug-compatible resource in the global economic machine?"

This is exactly what I've posited for the last two decades, having seen the implications of what is now the Internet and Web from my work in ARPANet/Milnet, Hypertext authorizing, online collaboration/authoring, multidimensional analysis/datawarehousing, "NetSpeed" management, outsourcing, IT Architecture/Infrastructure management, and organizational analysis and design over the last 17 years. This is exactly what all the online "job", "freelance" and team-collaboration sites are moving us to - a global, dynamic, task focused, team-oriented, time/distance insensitive, skills-based, data/metadata-based, process-enabling, culturally-integrating, customer-focused, freedom-providing, freelance economy. In the next two decades, a person's and nation's wealth and security will reside in their ability to perform, both technically and socially, in this unifying and leveling environment.

Roy

-----Original Message----- From: owner-xmledi-list@lists.bizserve.com [mailto:owner-xmledi-list@lists.bizserve.com]On Behalf Of Michael Moore Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 8:26 PM To: xmledi-list@lists.bizserve.com Subject: edXML and future business models

Hello, This is my first post to this group. I am new to XML and EDI so my questions may not be appropriate. I have noticed that the focus of interest in XML seems to be as it may be applied to B2B. So, it occurs to me that if we are going to build an architecture that support B2B interaction then having a clear notion of what constitutes a "business" should be a prerequisite. I am concerned that standards such as the ebXML may support what we think of as traditional businesses but may not support nascent business models. How will the ability to share resources and information alter business structures? Will every person become an autonomous independent plug-compatible resource in the global economic machine? Sun said "The Network is the Computer" well perhaps "The Business Is the Network". I know that this sounds far fetched, but I am trying to give an indication of the types of ideas that I would like to know peoples thoughts on.

Can we build a house on a foundation that is in flux?

If anybody would like to direct me to reading materials that address these types of subjects, or would like to write your own thoughts on the subject, I'd enjoy reading them.

Thanks, Mike

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