2 Introduction

Partner Interface Process™ (PIP) Specification comprises the following three views of the ebusiness PIP model.

1. Business Operational View (BOV). Captures the semantics of business data entities and their flow of exchange between roles as they perform business activities. The content of the BOV section is based on the PIP Blueprint document created for RosettaNet's business community.

2. Functional Service View (FSV). Specifies the network component services and agents and the interactions necessary to execute PIPs. The FSV includes all of the transaction dialogs in a PIP Protocol. The purpose of the FSV is to specify a PIP Protocol that is systematically derived from the BOV. The two major components within the FSV are the network component design and network component interactions.

3. Implementation Framework View (IFV). Specifies the network protocol message formats and communications requirements between peer-protocols supported by network components in the RosettaNet Implementation Framework. These messages are exchanged when software programs execute a PIP; RosettaNet distributes these as XML Message Guidelines.