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Frequently Asked Questions 
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General FAQs
Q1. What is RosettaNet?
Q2. What is RosettaNet's mission?
Q3. What are RosettaNet standards?
Q4. Why are global e-business standards necessary?
Q5. Is RosettaNet Grant available for logistic providers?
Q6. How to make the final claim?
Q7. Will RosettaNet Grant Open to companies whose local equity are less than 60% or not registered under company act 1965?
Q8. What is the purpose of endorsement letter?
Q9. Do we need to specify number of PIPs intended to be implemented in endorsement letter?
Q10. Can we implement only 1 PIP instead of 4 PIPs?
Q11. Can we apply for RosettaNet grant under ASP model then upgrade to Direct Model later under RosettaNet Grant?
Q12. What is the proof that grant application have already submitted the application to comply with Local Authority License?
Q13. Will SMIDEC continue release the grant even if the application for LAL failed?
Q14. What is the standard grant processing time?
Q15. Can we apply the grant while the project is half way completed?
Q16. Is the 12 months subscription charge under ASP-RosettaNet Grant referring to fix rate montly charges or pay as per use basis?
Partner Interface Process (PIP)
Q17. What is a PIP?
Q18. How is a PIP classified by?
Q19. How do I know if the specific PIP is designed for two way communications or one way?
Q20. What will happen if the PIPs transmitted failed to reach the trading partner in time?
Q21. How secure is the PIP transmitted?
Q22. What is Document Type Definition(DTD)?
Q23. What are the limitations of DTD?
Q24. What is XML Schema?
Q25. What is the difference between DTD and Schema based PIPs (Gen2 PIPs)?
Q26. What are the benefits of using Schema based PIPs?
RosettaNet Implementation Framework (RNIF)
Q27. What is RNIF?
Q28. What is the major difference between RNIF 1.1 and RNIF 2.0?
General Questions
Q1. What is RosettaNet?
A. A consortium of more than 500 of the world's leading Electronic Components (EC), Information Technology (IT), Semiconductor Manufacturing (SM) and Solution Provider (SP) companies, RosettaNet is a self-funded, non-profit organization dedicated to creating, implementing and promoting open e-business standards. These standards form a common e-business language, aligning processes between trading partners on a global basis. |
Q2. What is RosettaNet's mission?
A. RosettaNet drives collaborative development and rapid deployment of Internet-based business standards, creating a common language and open e-business processes that provide measurable benefits and are vital to the evolution of the global, high-technology trading network. |
Q3. What are RosettaNet standards?
A. Developed with the collaboration and expertise of leading high-tech companies worldwide, RosettaNet standards offer a robust nonproprietary solution, encompassing data dictionaries, implementation framework, and XML-based business message schemas and process specifications, for e-business standardization. These standards are free to the public on the RosettaNet Web site. |
Q4. Why are global e-business standards necessary?
A. Standardized e-business processes are critically important to the high technology marketplace. Companies that use propriety connections and with only a small number of trading partners are at a significant disadvantage in today's highly competitive yet collaborative business environment. The Internet offers a way for standard business processes to be exchanged, not just with a small number of intimate trading partners, but with a potentially unlimited global trading community. Standardized e-business processes increases companies' efficiency and, thus, their bottom line. |
Q5. Is RosettaNet Grant available for logistic providers?
A. Logistic Providers who are under the “Manufacturing Related Services” (MRS) are eligible for RosettaNet Grant. |
Q6. How to make the final claim?
A. Submit relevant original receipts for verification purposes Inform SMIDEC for audit upon project completion and commission. |
Q7. Will RosettaNet Grant open to companies whose local equity are less than 60% or not registered under company act 1965?
A. The criteria cannot be waived. |
Q8. What is the purpose of endorsement letter?
A. To certify RosettaNet Grant Applicant is implementing RosettaNet Standards with their Trading Partner. |
Q9. Do we need to specify number of PIPs intended to be implemented in endorsement letter?
A. No. |
Q10. Can we implement only 1 PIP instead of 4 PIPs?
A. You can, but SMIDEC will ask the value of implementing only 1 PIP. |
Q11. Can we apply for RosettaNet Grant under ASP model then upgrade to Direct Model later under RosettaNet Grant?
A. Yes, but the company can only apply for the difference between RM100K and what they have received under ASP Model Grant. |
Q12. What is the proof that grant applicants have already submitted the application to comply with Local Authority License?
A. Company need to submit the “Surat Akuan Terima” from MPPP to SMIDEC. |
Q13. Will SMIDEC continue release the grant even if the application for LAL failed?
A. SMIDEC will consider on a case by case basis. |
Q14. What is the standard grant processing time?
A. 14 working days upon receiving complete application and documentation by SMIDEC Headquarters. |
Q15. Can we apply the grant while the RosettaNet project is half way completed?
A. Yes, only if the project is below 50% completed. All payment made before the grant approval is not claimable. |
Q16. Is the 12 months subscription charge under ASP-RosettaNet Grant referring to fix rate monthly charges or pay as per use basis?
A. For those who subscribe pay as per use basis should estimate the first year subscription fees. |
Partner Interface Process (PIP)
Q17. What is a PIP?
A. PIP stands for Partner Interface Process. It depicts the activities, decisions and interactions that fulfill a business transaction between two partners in a supply chain. For more information on PIPs, go to http://www.rosettanet.org/pipdirectory. |
Q18. How is a PIP classified by?
A. A PIP is classified by clusters and segments. For example Cluster 3: Order Management have 4 segments. 3A:Quote and Order Entry, 3B:Transportation and Distribution, 3C:Returns and Finance and 3D:Product Configuration. 3B18 means the PIP is in Cluster 3, Segment B and 18 is the PIP number itself. |
Q19. How do I know if the specific PIP is designed for two way communications or one way?
A. Go to http://www.rosettanet.org/pipdirectory. Select the PIP that you want and look at the Business Process Model chart. You can see the flow to determine whether it is one way or two way PIP. |
Q20. What will happen if the PIPs transmitted failed to reach the trading partner in time?
A. Each receiver has 2 hours (or depending on the message control exchange) to response to a PIP.If the 2 hours passed and no response, the sender will resend the PIP again. (3 Retries). If it still fails there will be a Notification of Failure. |
Q21. How secure is the PIP transmitted?
A. Each PIP uses encryption and digital certificates to ensure that transmission is secure. |
Q22. What is Document Type Definition(DTD)?
A. The Document Type Definition (DTD) is the method used to define all markup languages. The purpose of DTD is to define the legal building blocks of an XML document.
- It defines the document structure with a list of legal elements; -document structure model
- Independent developers can agree to use a common DTD for exchanging XML data
- Application can use this agreed upon DTD to validate the structure of the data it receives
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Q23. What are the limitations of DTD?
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Limited data types: strings as tag content and ID, IDREF, NAMES, TOKEN, NMTOKEN as attribute content.
It is not possible to have precise data type information other than the above 6 types nor can the above data types be further restricted or extended to specific data lengths and content patterns.
The syntax used to write DTD is not the same as the one used to write XML Schema, which are written in SGML.
DTDs support only a closed model: each document instance must mirror the entire DTD and subparts of the DTD cannot be reused in another DTDs.
XML Document can only refer to a single DTD.
Namespaces are not applicable to DTD documents.
- Namespaces allow the localization of a tag's effect, which allows the same term (e.g., “amount”) to be used in different contexts (domains) with different meanings and different data typing.
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Q24. What is XML Schema?
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XML Schema language (often called XSD) is used to describe both the structure and the content of an XML document.
Schema is the Information modeling language for XML developed by W3C.
Full support for data types
- Over 40 built-in types (integer, boolean, dates, etc.)
- Custom types (e.g., contactInformationtype, etc.) can be defined as extensions or restrictions of the built-in types
- Data types, if well-defined in a given XML Schema, can help reduce backend error checking by up to 60%
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Q25. What is the difference between DTD and Schema based PIPs (Gen2 PIPs)?
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- DTD based PIPs
- Written in SGML
- Limited data type support.
- Extended via string substitutions.
- Closed model.
- Schema based PIPs
- Support namespaces
- Written in XML syntax, there is a normative XML Schema definition for XML Schema.
- Extensive data type support.
- Full, object-oriented extensibility.
- Open, closed or refinable content models.
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Q26. What are the benefits of using Schema based PIPs?
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- Reduce cost of implementation and development by
- reducing ambiguity and inconsistencies.
- promoting reuse across PIP specifications.
- reducing optionality in business content of messages.
- introducing a design notation for documents.
- Improve interoperability
- define PIP specifications in machine-processable XML to allow.
- automated checking.
- direct installation.
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