| MoU on electronic business between IEC, ISO, ITU, and UN/ECE |
| Annex C: Definitions |
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Business: A series of processes, each having a clearly understood purpose, involving more than
one organization, realized through the exchange of information and directed towards some mutually agreed
upon goal, extending over a period of time. (Open-edi Reference Model Standard - ISO/IEC 14662).
Basic Semantics Register (BSR): The BSR is envisioned to be the official ISO register of data for
use by designers and implementers of information systems in a manner which will allow systems development
to move from a closed to an open multilingual environment, especially for use in domestic and international
electronic communication including electronic commerce and EDI.
Business Operational View (BOV): a perspective of business transactions limited to those aspects
regarding the making of business decisions and commitments among organizations, which are needed for the
description of a business transaction. (Open-edi Reference Model Standard - ISO/IEC 14662).
Collaborative activity: In a collaborative activity joint meetings are held at working group level
to develop a common standard, which then is approved using the appropriate approval process of each organization.
Electronic Business: A generic term covering information definition and exchange requirements within
and between enterprises, including customers.
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): The automated exchange of any predefined and structured data for
business among information systems of two or more organizations. (Open-edi Reference Model Standard - ISO/IEC 14662).
EDI message: an approved, published, and maintained formal description of how to structure the data
required to perform a specific business function, in such a way as to allow for the transfer and handling of
this data by electronic means.
Functional Service View (FSV): a perspective of business transactions limited to those information
technology interoperability aspects of IT Systems needed to support the execution of Open-edi transactions.
Open-edi: Electronic data interchange among multiple autonomous organizations to accomplish an explicit
shared business goal according to Open-edi standards (i.e. that comply with the Open-edi Reference
Model Standard - ISO/IEC 14662).
STEP: The Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data (ISO 10303)
Syntax rules: Rules governing the structure of an interchange and its functional groups, messages,
segments and data elements. (ISO 9735)
UN/EDIFACT (United Nations Electronic Data Interchange for Administration Commerce and Transport): "User
application protocol for use within user application systems for data to be interchanged compatible with the OSI
model." (UN/EDIFACT syntax implementation guidelines, UNTDID 1990) |
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