No, to all three questions, just asking. I don't need to know every ID out there. I need to know only the ID's for my trading partners, and, believe it or not, they're usually pretty happy to supply the info.
Now, if you were to offer an up to date, guaranteed current to the minute directory of actual, real person type EDI contacts, for ALL of my current and future trading partners, that, my friend, might be worth a few pennies. Be careful before you reply, this task could take every hour of the rest of your life and still not be complete. Leah ________________________________ From: Todd Gould <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; Leah Halpin <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, April 27, 2011 10:31:58 PM Subject: Re: : [EDI-L] [ANSWERS] Stop Spending Time and Money Digging Through Outdated Trading Partner Data! If it were free, would you endorse it? Lobby your VAN to use it? What if it were $1/month for each QID listed? To be paid by the VAN or the Trading Partner directly? Would that be a deal breaker? Regards, Todd Gould President Loren Data Corp. ----- Original Message ----- From: Leah Halpin To: Todd Gould ; [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 10:17 PM Subject: Re: : [EDI-L] [ANSWERS] Stop Spending Time and Money Digging Through Outdated Trading Partner Data! Free? ________________________________ From: Todd Gould <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, April 27, 2011 10:12:55 PM Subject: Re: : [EDI-L] [ANSWERS] Stop Spending Time and Money Digging Through Outdated Trading Partner Data! 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. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
