ISO/TS 20625:2002 describes how to derive XML from UN/EDIFACT MIGs. In principle, the rules are equally applicable to other EDI standards.

It does not apply to DTDs.

• fundamentals of business transaction modelling that describe the conceptual aspects of eBusiness;
• principles of eBusiness modelling that specify the semantic aspect of business transactions and their components and relationships involved in the business transaction;
• classification scheme of Open-edi scenarios based on eBusiness modelling.

— examines the basic concepts that have been developed for both cloud computing and Open-edi;

— identifies key Open-edi concepts relevant to cloud computing;

— identifies key cloud computing concepts relevant to Open-edi;

— compares Open-edi model and cloud computing architecture and identifies mappings (similarities in whole or in part) between them using formal semantic modelling techniques.

It addresses the fundamental and definable aspects of a business transaction as it unfolds with business partners: first planning their activities, then identifying their prospective trading partners, then negotiating commitments for economic exchanges, and finally fulfilling those commitments with reciprocated transfers of economic resources. The key concepts required for an Open-edi business transaction, which are derived from the fields of accounting and economics, are defined.

ISO/IEC 15944-4:2007 provides the ontological specification with an enumeration of the primitive and derived data classes needed in a full economic exchange. These definitions are specified with class diagrams from the Unified Modelling Language (UML). This is the declarative component of the Open-edi Business Transaction Ontology (OeBTO).

ISO/IEC 15944-4:2007 identifies the procedural components of the OeBTO: its computable mechanisms for tracking progress through an actual business process where partners exchange information with each other as they progress through the Open-edi trading phases of planning, identification, negotiation, actualization and post-actualization. This progress is determined with specified state machine mechanics. ISO/IEC 15944-4:2007 finishes by identifying the constraint component of the OeBTO: its repository for business rules and assertions.

Cultural adaptability and integration with the other parts of ISO/IEC 15944 is provided by supplying a list of consolidated French definitions and by enumerating the two classes of Open-edi constraints. Theoretical background for the ontological components of the OeBTO is provided by enumerating the Resource-Event-Agent (REA) ontology as that work is being used in standards work with the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT).

Use of ISO/IEC 15944-4:2007 (and related standards) will facilitate the integration of these ontological definitions into specified, registered and re-useable eBusiness scenarios and scenario components.

ISO/IEC 15944-2:2006 specifies procedures to be followed in preparing and maintaining registers of scenarios and scenario components. Although any organization may choose to establish registers of such items that conform to ISO/IEC 15944-2:2006, ISO/IEC 15944-2:2006 is intended particularly to apply to registers established under the auspices of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32.

ISO/IEC 15944-2:2006 specifies the procedure by which Open-edi scenarios and scenario components can be registered as "business objects", starting with requirements for reusability and the ability to support cultural adaptability, as well as requirements of a jurisdictional nature as are applicable to the nature and goal of the business transaction. Registration principles are then stated, including

• the federation of registration authorities;
• internationally unique identification of Open-edi registry entries;
• responsibilities of registration authorities;
• registry operation;
• registration status;
• state of a register;
• information required for registering scenarios and scenario components;
• formal specification of scenarios and scenario components using an Open-edi Descriptive Technique.

The composite Open-edi registry item identifier, as well as roles and responsibilities in the management of Open-edi registers, are described. Registration authority and operations in the management of an Open-edi register are also described and a linkage to existing register standards is made by giving an overview of the ISO 19135:2005 register and its adaptation to the Open-edi register schema.

Normative and informative annexes contain

• consolidated list of terms and definitions;
• Open-edi registration administration attributes;
• reference to Open-edi scoping and specification attributes;
• description of scenario classification concepts;
• brief description of UML notation;
• information on two classes of constraints, i.e. internal and external, as part of the business transaction model.

— provides method(s) for identifying, in Open-edi modelling technologies and development of scenarios, the additional requirements in business operational view (BOV) specifications for identifying the additional external constraints to be applied to recorded information in business transactions relating to personal information of an individual, as required by legal and regulatory requirements of applicable jurisdictional domains;

— integrates existing normative elements in support of privacy and data protection requirements as are already identified in ISO/IEC 14662 and ISO/IEC 15944-1, ISO/IEC 15944-2, ISO/IEC 15944-4, ISO/IEC 15944-5, ISO/IEC 15944-8, ISO/IEC 15944-9, and ISO/IEC 15944-10;

— provides overarching, operational ?best practice' statements for associated (and not necessarily automated) processes, procedures, practices and governance requirements that act in support of implementing and enforcing technical mechanisms which support the privacy/data protection requirements necessary for implementation in Open-edi transaction environments;

— focuses on the life cycle management of personal information i.e., the contents of SPIs (and their SRIs) related to the business transaction interchanged via EDI as information bundles and their associated semantic components among the parties to a business transaction.

NOTE Privacy protection requirements (PPR) on information life cycle management (ILCM) and EDI of personal information as stated in this document serve as a minimum set of ILCM policy and operational requirements for all recorded information pertaining to a business transaction in particular, as well as ILCM implementation in any organization in general.

This document does not specify the technical mechanisms, i.e., functional support services (FSV) which are required to support BOV-identified requirements. Detailed exclusions to the scope of this document are provided in Annex H.

NOTE — Pour les utilisateurs de la présente Norme internationale, il convient de noter que les règles de syntaxe qui y sont spécifiées font partie du Répertoire pour l'Échange de Données Commerciales des Nations Unies. Elles peuvent être utilisées dans toute application, mais les messages utilisant ces règles de syntaxe ne peuvent être référencés comme des messages EDIFACT que s'ils sont conformes aux quatre règles et répertoires de l'UNTDID (Répertoire pour l'Échange de Données Commerciales des Nations Unies) et s'ils ont été approuvés par la Commission Économique pour l'Europe des Nations Unies (CEE/ONU).