What Is RosettaNet?

RosettaNet is a nonprofit consortium of more than 400 of the world's leading Information Technology, electronic components, semiconductor manufacturing, and solution provider companies working to create, implement, and promote open e-business process standards.

RosettaNet consortium defines the RNIF, a general information exchange standard. RNIF describes how a message should be exchanged in an end-to-end partner scenario. Currently, two versions of RNIF are available: RNIF 1.1 and RNIF 2.0. These frameworks differ from each other in many ways and are not compatible.

The Accelerator for RosettaNet was built for RNIF 1.1. As this chapter is being written, the next version of Accelerator for RosettaNet is under development, and it will provide support for RNIF 2.0.

The RosettaNet consortium also defines the Partner Interface Processes (PIPs). A PIP describes all details of a certain business operation flow, including the transaction flow, document schemas, rules, and restrictions.

As a whole, RNIF and PIPs construct a standard process definition for the electronic sharing of business information.

For detailed technical and related information on the RosettaNet consortium visit RosettaNet.org.