This actually speaks to a bigger issue that in all these years EDI continues to
be a messaging technology without a directory service, automated or otherwise.
No other messaging system would be taken seriously without this.
Could you imagine if you had to tell your phone company which other phone
company the number you are dialing is on? Could you imagine having to know the
IP address of the server for every e-mail you sent?
That the VANs have not agreed to share their directories with each other is to
me one of the key factors that continues to hold this industry back.
I have built a web services-based protocol for this (which is in active use
with my own customers), offered to host this, created the first VAN Summit and
co-chaired the Connectivity Caucus at X12.
Unfortunately, the larger VANs continue to believe that their routing tables
are proprietary and give them a competitive advantage.
I am committed to prevailing here and establishing an industry-wide directory
service that allows for instant, ubiquitous routing throughout all VANs and EDI
Service Providers. It can only benefit each trading partner individually and
the industry as a whole.
Regards,
Todd Gould
President
Loren Data Corp.
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