Establishing the UBL Forms Presentation Subcommittee (FPSC)

UBL members,

This is a followup to the message I sent on this subject 9 March.
I've appended that entire previous message at the end of this
message rather than referencing it via URL because of the shifting
state of the new OASIS management system now undergoing
installation and testing.

Please review the following resolution.  If you have no objection
to its adoption, do nothing.  If you are a voting member and you
object to the adoption of this resolution, please register that
objection with mail to the list  no later
than COB Sunday 23 March 2003.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC

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ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UBL FORMS PRESENTATION SUBCOMMITTEE

Resolved,

1. That a Forms Presentation Subcommittee shall be created with

the initial charter given below.

2. That G. Ken Holman shall be appointed chair of the FPSC and

that Sue Probert, Gunther Stuhec, and Dan Vint shall be its

initial voting members.

3. That the FPSC shall be conducted according to the standing

rules for subcommittees adopted by the UBL TC at its meeting 1

November 2001 (reported in the minutes published to the ubl

list 6 November 2001), as modified by action of the UBL TC in

the resolutions posted to the ubl list 16 September 2002 and

adopted by the UBL TC 21 September 2002.

FPSC Charter

1. To liaise with standardization organizations responsible for

paper-based business commerce forms regarding evolving

requirements for the presentation of information.

2. To rapidly develop and document formal technology-agnostic

(i.e. independent of any particular presentation technology)

Formatting Specifications as interpretations of

internationally standardized or otherwise available

paper-based forms for the presentation of UBL documents

suitable for the human reader.

3. To foster implementations of these interpretations through

coordination, guidance and responsiveness to queries, in

order to test the viability of these Formatting

Specifications using different technologies in real-world

scenarios.

Possible deliverables:

1. Formatting specification guidelines

- principles of the development and use of the library of

formatting specifications

- principles of the presentation of UBL information

- catalogue of known implementations

2. Office-oriented example formatting specifications

3. Joinery-oriented example formatting specifications

4. United Nations UNECE aligned Trade Document layout key

formatting specifications

5. Other scenarios requested by the Library Content

Subcommittee for sample instances

Scope of work:

This committee work is presentation focused. The design of the

document models and the semantics of the business process

behind the document models is recognized as the purview of

other subcommittees. This subcommittee will approach the other

subcommittees with questions for clarification regarding these

aspects of the UBL information process.

This committee work will bridge the gap between the computers

using UBL and the humans who need to see the information, with

our focus being presenting the information found in instances

of UBL document models. Instances of other document models will

not be considered within scope at this time.

Both output-only and input-output presentation scenarios are

considered within scope at this time.

Standardizing the presentation of information in a

technology-agnostic fashion  (i.e. independent of any

particular stylesheet technologies, print technologies, data

entry strategies, etc.) should foster the innovation and

proliferation of implementations. This committee will attempt

to nurture the implementation community with arms-length

support through respect and responsiveness in order to bring

about support from as wide a spectrum of technologies as

possible, without bias to any particular technology.

Manner and schedule of work:

The work of the subcommittee will be primarily through a mail

list set up on OASIS for subcommittee work. Access by the

public will be through an openly available mail list archive.

A library of intermediate work materials (links, files, meeting

minutes, examples, etc.) will be maintained through the

subcommittee web site and will be open for public access.

The pace of development will attempt to keep up with the

release of new document models from other UBL subcommittees and

with the responsiveness of the user community regarding

feedback the subcommittee may receive.

A work plan will be developed and published by April 1,

2003, after which it will be reviewed periodically in light of

developments and progress.

Teleconferences will be scheduled on a regular basis (perhaps

as often as every week or two). Sun Microsystems has

offered to arrange for the teleconferences.

Technical liaison:

Liaison with the UBL Library Content subcommittee (for the

business semantics and for sample instances) will be critically

important to the understanding of the information being

presented.

Liaison with the United Nations electronic Trade Documents

(UNeDocs) group of the UNECE is important regarding widely

accepted layouts for electronic business information.

Input from and dialogue with other organizations identified

through the UBL Liaison Subcommittee will be valuable.

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Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 11:38:25 -0800 (PST)

From: Jon Bosak <>
Subject: [ubl] UBL Forms Presentation Subcommittee (FPSC)

To: 
UBL members,

At the opening plenary of the UBL TC meeting in Denver, I noted
the consideration of a new UBL subcommittee, provisionally named
the Formatting Specification Subcommittee, to develop mappings
from UBL schemas to printed forms such as the UN Layout Key.

http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/200302/plen-rpt-20030203.sxi

I invited the members to read a proposed web page for the new
subcommittee prepared by Ken Holman and to consider
participation.  At the closing plenary that Friday, I brought this
up again and received commitments from Dan Vint, Gunther Stuhec,
and Sue Probert to join the new SC along with Ken.

Since that time, informal discussions among this group have
produced refinements to the draft SC site and a new name, somewhat
easier to pronounce: FPSC (Forms Presentation SC).  Ken is moving
the strawman FSSC materials over to FPSC as I write this, so by
Monday you should be able to see a strawman FPSC page at

http://oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/fpsc/

Remember that this is just a placeholder; we haven't actually
created the SC yet.

As the contributor of all the XSL stylesheets to the 0p70 release
and the primary author of the proposed SC charter, Ken Holman is
an obvious candidate for chair of the FPSC.  I have asked Ken
whether he would agree to take this on, and he has kindly
consented to do so.

I've appended the current draft charter for the SC below.  Please
look this over and speak up if you see anything that needs
changing.  You should also let us know if you'd like to join the
initial group of people forming the FPSC.  Assuming that we're
done fiddling with the charter by the time I get back from the
UN/CEFACT meeting next weekend, I'd like to formally propose
creation of the SC at that time in order for it to start operating
the week of 17 March.

Jon

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FPSC Draft charter:

1. To liaise with standardization organizations responsible for

paper-based business commerce forms regarding evolving

requirements for the display of information.

2. To rapidly develop and document formal technology-agnostic

Formatting Specifications as interpretations of

internationally standardized or otherwise available

paper-based forms for the rendering of UBL documents

suitable for the human reader.

3. To foster implementations of these interpretations through

coordination, guidance and responsiveness to queries, in

order to test the viability of using different technologies

in real-world scenarios (e.g. stylesheet technologies, print

technologies, data entry strategies, etc.).

Possible deliverables:

1. Formatting specification guidelines

- principles of the development and use of the library of

formatting specifications

- principles of the presentation of UBL information

- catalogue of known implementations

2. Office-oriented example formatting specifications

3. Joinery-oriented example formatting specifications

4. United Nations UNECE aligned Trade Document layout key

formatting specifications

5. Other scenarios requested by the Library Content

Subcommittee for sample instances

Scope of work:

This committee work is presentation focused. The design of the

document models and the semantics of the business process

behind the document models is recognized as the purview of

other subcommittees. This subcommittee will approach the other

subcommittees with questions for clarification regarding these

aspects of the UBL information process.

This committee work will bridge the gap between the computers

using UBL and the humans who need to see the information, with

our focus being presenting the information found in instances

of UBL document models. Instances of other document models will

not be considered within scope at this time.

Both output-only and input-output presentation scenarios are

considered within scope at this time.

Standardizing the presentation of information in a

technology-agnostic fashion should foster the innovation and

proliferation of implementations. This committee will attempt

to nurture the implementation community with arms-length

support through respect and responsiveness in order to bring

about support from as wide a spectrum of technologies as

possible, without bias to any particular technology.

Manner and schedule of work:

The work of the subcommittee will be primarily through a mail

list set up on OASIS for subcommittee work. Access by the

public will be through an openly available mail list archive.

A library of intermediate work materials (links, files, meeting

minutes, examples, etc.) will be maintained through the

subcommittee web site and will be open for public access.

The pace of development will attempt to keep up with the

release of new document models from other UBL subcommittees and

with the responsiveness of the user community regarding

feedback the subcommittee may receive.

A work plan will be developed and published by (TBD)

April 1,

2003 after which it will be reviewed periodically in light of

developments and progress.

Teleconferences will be scheduled on a regular basis (perhaps

as often as every week or two). Sun Microsystems has

offered to arrange for the teleconferences.

Technical liaison:

Liaison with the UBL Naming and Design Rules subcommittee (for

the business semantics) and the UBL Library Content

subcommittee (for sample instances) will be critically

important to the understanding of the information being

presented.

Liaison with the United Nations electronic Trade Documents

(UNeDocs) group of the UNECE is important regarding widely

accepted layouts for electronic business information.