Answers common questions about the legacy program, tools and service overviews.

Q. What is the RosettaNet Ready™ Program?

A. RosettaNet Ready is the legacy program for RosettaNet software compliance testing. Software products tested compliant under this program were designated by the RosettaNet Ready badge. Beginning in October 2004, compliance testing and certification is offered through eBusinessReady,) an industry-neutral software testing program. This new certification program continues the original vision of the RosettaNet Ready initiative to accelerate development and implementation of RosettaNet standards, and expands it to a broader market scope. Software products tested compliant under the new program are designated by the eBusinessReady “certified software” seal. RosettaNet Ready and eBusinessReady compliance certifications are both endorsed and recognized by RosettaNet.

Q. Why was the RosettaNet Ready Program developed?

A. Solution providers and supply chain companies have requested that RosettaNet develop a method for comparing whether their software solutions comply with RosettaNet standards. Solution providers requested a means by which they can obtain feedback during the development process. The RosettaNet Ready Program was developed to accelerate implementations and development. EbusinessReady, the new certification program continues the original vision of the RosettaNet Ready initiative to accelerate development and implementation of RosettaNet standards, and expands it to a broader market scope.

Q. Is RosettaNet in the software business?

A. No, RosettaNet is not a software provider. RosettaNet developed software compliance testing to meet the readiness and compliance testing needs of its members. RosettaNet members who were developing other services and solutions expressed interest in utilizing these tools and services rather than building these components themselves.

Q. Does the RosettaNet Ready Program compete with the efforts of solution providers to provide tools and services to supply chain companies?

A. No. RosettaNet's Developer Tools Library and Software Compliance Badge subscription are designed to accelerate implementations and recognize compliant solutions. The Developer Tools Library does not contain the enterprise application integration capabilities, translation capability, or PIP-specific capability available from RosettaNet's solution providers. These tools should increase the market significantly for those products and services provided by users.

Q. Is the RosettaNet Ready Program specific to any part of a RosettaNet standard, such as a PIP or RNIF version?

A. The RosettaNet Ready Program provided tools that emulate the operation of the tested solution against PIPs running in an RNIF v 2.0 environment. In the case of the Self-Test Kit, at program launch, sample scripts supporting nine PIPs are packaged in the test scripts for RNIF v 2.0. The software compliance badge subscription badged solution compliance by PIP version for RNIF v 2.0.

Q. Why doesn't the RosettaNet Ready Program test for adherence of RNIF 1.1?

A. With the release of RNIF v2.0, significant community benefits were gained, particularly support for third-party intermediaries and attachments. All future releases of RosettaNet standards will build on these capabilities, and RosettaNet is not planning additional changes to the Transport and Routing Protocol (TRP) portion of the RNIF, making the tool usable for support of future standards versions. Adoption of RosettaNet standards by new companies will be supported by software solutions built upon validated 2.0 and higher requirements.

Q. Who owns the intellectual property of the RosettaNet Ready Program?

A. RosettaNet owns all intellectual property to the software tools of the RosettaNet Ready Program, except as indicated in the license agreement, where RosettaNet credits an outside source. RosettaNet will acknowledge open licensing from the author where other work is incorporated, and will specify any licenses that are included in the subscription program chosen by the user.

Q. Does this program impact RosettaNet's non-profit status?

A. No. This program does not impact RosettaNet's non-profit status.