Glossary P

	Term	Definition
	Partner Interface Process (PIP)	The RosettaNet model that depicts the activities, decisions and Partner Role interactions that fulfill an eBusiness transaction between two partners in a supply chain. Each Partner must fulfill all obligations specified in a PIP. If any one party fails to perform a service as specified in the approved RosettaNet PIP documentation then the business transaction is null and void. A sub-process, a subset of a sub-process, or combination of sub-processes identified by Cluster or Segment Workshop participants as containing key interactions between Partner Types. A PIP contains interactions that, if standardized, would improve supply chain efficiencies. There can be sub-processes that will are not identified to become PIPs because they do not meet the PIP criteria listed below. A PIP must: have a measurable business outcome or output; not contain proprietary business processes; contain more than one role interaction; and be a discrete unit of work that can be attached like building blocks to other PIPs to achieve a larger business outcome.

	Partner Role Interaction	The one-way exchange of business properties between partner roles. Partner Role Interactions are executed by networked service and agent applications that interact by transmitting and receiving messages. These services interact via service transactions and the agents with services. Both interact by transmitting and receiving messages.

	Partner Roles	The activities performed at the organizational, departmental or individual employee level. The activities may include Catalog Publisher, Catalog Distributor, Order Manager, Requisition Manager and the structured properties they exchange when they interact.

	Partner Type	Partner Type describes the high-level business functions that a trading partner performs in the supply chain.

	Performative	A verb that specifies some action to be performed; a basic Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language (KQML) command; a construct of speech act theory. A speech act can be put in a stylized form that begins â€œI hereby requestâ€ or â€œI hereby declare.â€ In this form the verb is called the performative, since saying it makes it so. Verbs that cannot be put into this form are not speech acts, for example â€œI hereby solve this equationâ€ does not actually solve the equation.

	PIP Blueprint	Created as a result of developing a (â€œto-beâ€) business model that specifies how Partner Roles (Buyer, Seller, Assembler, Catalog Publisher, etc.) interactively perform interface activities that collaboratively achieve a business objective. The PIP Blueprint document includes narrative and diagrams.

	PIP Implementation Guideline	Collates the results of the RosettaNet development methodology into a document for eBusiness architects, implementers and solution providers to create RosettaNet-compliant implementations of interoperable software solutions.

	PIP Protocols	Technical interface diagrams that visually describe and define the PIP Blueprint.

	PIP Specification	Partner Interface Process â€œdetailed formulation, in document form, which provides a definitive description of a system for the purpose of developing or validating the system.â€

	Process Specifications	Describe the conditional choreography of exchange sequences necessary to execute PIPs.

	Protocol	Formal set of rules and conventions that govern how computers exchange information over a network medium.

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Definitions for RosettaNet Modular PIPs (XML Schema)

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	Term	Definition
	PIP Choreography	The exchange sequence of PIP messages specified using BPSS.

	PIP Design and Development Process	A structured process that describes the work and steps required to create a PIP specification based upon requirements as detailed in the Specification Requirement Document (SRD).

	PIP Interchange Model	The structure of the exchanged information between trading partners in a specific context.

	PIP UML Interchange Model	Interchange Model represented in UML

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