The Collaboration Protocol Profile and it’s counterpart, the Collaboration Protocol Agreement are specifications that create a baseline for trading partners to conduct business electronically. CPP’s may be stored in a registry such as the ebXML ebRS. The standard is championed by OASIS and is part of the ebXML group of specifications.

Collaboration Protocol Profile (CPP)

• Describes party's IT capabilities
• Communication protocols
• Security requirements
• Business processes it supports

Collaboration Protocol Agreement (CPA)

• Agreed IT capabilities
• Business process to be performed
• Definition of business transactions, transition rules, etc.

CPA is intersection of two parties' CPPs plus results of negotiating variable parameters