Issue 1895:  Issue: Alignment of OMG Person/Party models (pdm-rtf)
Source:  (, )
Nature:  Uncategorized Issue
Severity: 
Summary: Summary: Problem:  There are differences between the interfaces for Person in 
 the PdmResponsibility module and in the PIDS.  In general, these two
 models reflect different concerns for the management of Person
 and Party objects, but they have identifiably common attributes
 that will also no doubt be part of any Party Management proposal,
 which we may expect to be implemented by Human Resource Management
 systems.  Because of the coupling of Human Resource Management with 
 PDM and ERP systems in the manufacturing operations environment, it will
 be necessary for Manufacturing to have a common basis model for Person 
 and Party that extends across these systems.  An initial cleanup of 
 unnecessary nomenclature differences will facilitate this.
 
 

Resolution: 
Revised Text: 
Actions taken:
August 27, 1998: received issue
August 24, 1999: deferred to other action
October 10, 2000: issue deferred
Discussion: 
This issue is deferred, pending coordination between the task forces on Person and Organization models.
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From: Ed Barkmeyer <edbark@cme.nist.gov>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:02:28 -0400 (EDT)
To: juergen@omg.org
Subject: PDM Enablers RTF Issue, PIDS RTF Issue
Cc: tim@protocol.com, pdm-rtf@omg.org
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Juergen,

As the primary holdout on the issue of alignment, I want to add a 
specific issue to the PDM Enablers RTF:

Issue: Alignment of OMG Person/Party models

Reference section: 2.1 PdmResponsibility

Problem:  There are differences between the interfaces for Person in 
the PdmResponsibility module and in the PIDS.  In general, these two
models reflect different concerns for the management of Person
and Party objects, but they have identifiably common attributes
that will also no doubt be part of any Party Management proposal,
which we may expect to be implemented by Human Resource Management
systems.  Because of the coupling of Human Resource Management with 
PDM and ERP systems in the manufacturing operations environment, it
will
be necessary for Manufacturing to have a common basis model for Person

and Party that extends across these systems.  An initial cleanup of 
unnecessary nomenclature differences will facilitate this.

Comment:  I'm not sure that this needs to be solved in the first RTFs
for PIDS and PDM, but it definitely needs to be on the list, and 
minor changes that eliminate gratis differences NOW are appropriate,
BEFORE they become "upward compatibility" issues.

-Ed
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