I think you bring up a great point. Napster is a good example of what
informal EDI could be. I see EDI as formal and informal. Formal EDI
will continue to be used by the retail hubs and such where preset
arrangements between a buyer and seller are required. But I see
a Napster type peer-to-peer technology being used for informal EDI. For
example, why couldn't the mom-and-pop store, Target, Wal-Mart and/or
Kmart down the street put their inventory availability online 24X7 with
a Napster like product. I think with initiatives like UDDI and ebXML to
back this up this is the way of the future.
-RD
"Wakelam Paul (RBAU/LOG)" wrote:
>
> >
> > --Please don't continue Napster discussions here. There are lots of other
> > places for them [pw]
> >
> I have one question relevant to EDI about Napster.
>
> Napster has been very efficient at transferring information form one
> party to another and creating a large community of users.
> Is there anything that can be learnt from this model that can be
> used with Ecommerce
> Would a central dynamic registry of EDI contacts, their trading
> partners and messages would this accelerate EDI ?
>
> regards Paul
>
> .
>
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