Specifies the framework for co-ordinating the integration of existing International Standards and the development of future International Standards for the inter-working of Open-edi Parties via Open-edi and provides a reference for those International Standards. As such it serves to guide the work necessary to accomplish Open-edi by providing the context to be used by developers of International Standards to ensure the coherence and integration of related standardized modelling and descriptive techniques, services, service interfaces, and protocols. Describes, through two perspectives of business transactions, significant aspects relevant to the interoperability of information technology systems used by Open-edi Parties engaging in Open-edi.
