Re:Maersk/IBM to discontinue TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled...
by mike_hearn on Thursday December 01, 2022 @11:34AM
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The data structures can be found in the code, but I agree it'd be better to have a spec. I tried to design it so one day such a spec could be written (lots of dependencies on pre-existing specs for example) but it never became a priority.
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Re:Maersk/IBM to discontinue TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled...
by seymore_12 on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:46AM
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Majority of shipping/trading documents are formalized under EDIFACT standard
for example, this is the layout of Bill of Lading/Shipping Instruction, so called IFTMIN https://service.unece.org/trade/untdid/d04a/trmd/iftmin_c.ht...
One of the possible reasons for TradeLens demise is that they choose to ignore them and came up with their own data structures (Json) i.e. partners that are usually EDIFACT capable had to practically start from scratch to comply with TradeLens format.
At some point TradeLens realized that and started partially accepting EDI feeds, but it was too little, too late I guess.