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Subject: Comments to 3 January build of UBL 2.0 review package by JPLSC

From: "Yukinori Saito" <>

To: "Sun) Jon Bosak" <>, "UBL TC" <>

Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 12:40:40 +0900

Dear Jon Bosak,

We (UBL JPLSC) have held F2F meeting in Tokyo on January 6. The participants
were five members including me.
We discussed about UBL 2.0 review package.
The followings are our comments.

1. Universal Business Language 2.0 (index.html)
(1) This V2.0 (index.html) is great progress to V1.0. There were much
technical descriptions at V1.0.
However, there are much descriptions of business process and business
documents in V2.0.
V2.0 (index.html) is much understandable and acceptable for UBL users (e.g.
Business Experts).
(2) The section 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 are describing change from V1.0 to V2.0.
We think that these sections should be moved to Appendix.
(3) There are descriptions about changed Elements and Attributes at section
1.3.3 and 1.3.4. There is no information of the reason why these Elements
and Attributes are changed. Especially, removed items should need to
describe the reasons. For example: The item is removed because the function
became unnecessary. The item is removed because the item is achieved by
another means.
(4) Business Process Classification
The classification of Business Process is not appropriately arranged.
The classification of Business Process should be described at the top of
section 5.2 (Business process).
For example: Sourcing, Ordering, Fulfillment, Billing, Payment,
Transportation, Certificate of Origin.
(5) Business Process Description
There are Business Process descriptions at section from 5.3 to 5.9. The
contents are not united.
The contents should contain general description, business rules, and
corresponding business documents.
For example: The description of the business rule and the business documents
have come off at Section 5.7 (Payment Collaboration).
(6) Section 5.10 Document Types
This table is very important.
We want you to describe to which business process each business document
belongs clearly. It seems that it only has to review "Use cases involved".
(7) Section 6.3 Imported Code List Schema
There are only 4 Code Lists at V2.0
There were 13 Code Lists at V1.0.
Why did the number decreased?
(8) B.1 Library Assembly Model
There are 3 Libraries (Common Library, Procurement Library, and
Transportation Library).
We would like you to explain the relation between these libraries and
business process classification.
For example: The Procurement Library has the common ABIEs regarding business
process "Sourcing, Ordering, Fulfillment, Billing, Payment". The
Transportation Library has the common ABIEs regarding business process
"Transportation, Certificate of Origin".

2. Business Documents and Common Libraries
We are anxious whether these business documents (especially new business
documents) are usable in Japanese marketplace.
We (JPLSC members) would like to evaluate these business documents for about
2 or 3 month.

3. Others
(1) .ods
There are many documents named "---.ods" in UBL 2.0 review package.
We don't know what are these files. We cannot open these document by our
Personal Computers.
Please tell us what these are and how to open.

Best Regards
Yukinori Saito
(Vice chair of UBL JPLSC)
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Yukinori Saito
Fuji Electric Information Service Co., Ltd. (FIS)
e-mail: 
Tel: +81-3-5435-7333     Fax: +81-3-5435-7513
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