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Purpose and overview

Modelling of a business transaction through scenarios and scenario components is done through specifying the applicable constraints using explicitly stated rules. The Open-edi Reference Model identified two basic classes of constraints, namely, "internal constraints" and "external constraints". External constraints apply to most business transactions.

Jurisdictional domains are the primary source of external constraints on a business transaction. Traceability requirements in turn are a common requirement of most jurisdictional domains, although they may result from explicit scenario demands from or on the parties to a business transaction, as well as the goal, i.e., nature of the business transaction.

In the actualization and post-actualization phases of a business transaction, traceability is needed for the movement of goods, services and/or rights from seller to buyer, and for the associated payment from buyer to seller. Depending on the nature of the business transaction, traceability may also be required by and involve an agent, a third party and/or a regulator (This may be a mandatory process invoked by the power of the regulator).

This Business Operational View (BOV) standard, i.e., this Part of ISO/IEC 15944, addresses the specific aspects of business semantic descriptive techniques needed in support of traceability requirements in Openedi modelling of business transactions that support of internal constraints as well and especially those which are subject to external constraints.