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To: elmatador who wrote (28459)	9/28/1999 8:07:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

el, thanks for those notes. I will have to get back to you later this evening to comment.. time isn't on my side right now. One thing. The term 'portal' never ceases to give me agita. Frank

To: elmatador who wrote (28459)	9/28/1999 2:38:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

OT OT OT Fwiw this XML piece pretty dramatically understates the challenges in B2B commerce... xml does some good things but in no way solves the problems that have always existed with standardization. The only drawback is that for XML to work properly, there has to be some agreement on definitions. It may be possible to achieve this within particular professions or industries, perhaps using an information intermediary as both initiator and ring-master. But to ensure that there is a shared language of business on the Internet, cross-industry initiatives are also needed. We've been trying to do this for YEARS. And cross-industry groups have been formed and abandoned. The web assists in removing one of the barriers that used to exist which is the transport issues, and XML is a step in the right direction with this tagging as opposed to the positional structure we had with EDI.