Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 23|24 June 2008

MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING
TUESDAY 24 JUNE 2008

ATTENDANCE

Jon Bosak (chair)

G. Ken Holman

Tim McGrath (vice chair)

Andy Schoka

STANDING ITEMS

Additions to the calendar:

http://ubl.xml.org/events

None.

Subcommittee report: PSC

TM: Status report needed.  Will discuss with PLB.

Subcommittee report: TSC

TM: There is a very useful gap analysis on the EFM site.

JB: We will put this on the agenda for next week's call.

ACTION: AS to contact Ismar for an update regarding Danish

transportation requirements.

Review of Atlantic call

ACTION (6/3): JB to revise and republish the FIRTG charter

to add "in alignment with UN/CEFACT deliverables."

Done.

JB: Stig Korsgaard of the Danish Bankers Association informs

us that a staff person will be assigned to FIRTG at the

request of the Danish government.

No further comments on last week's Atlantic minutes.

ADOPTION SC / UBL FOCUS AREA

[It appears that we accidentally skipped this item.  We will

discuss status next week.]

LOCALIZATION SUBCOMMITTEES

ACTION (6/10): JB to proceed with formation of the German

Localization Subcommittee (DELSC) with Karsten Tolle as chair.

JB: A formal proposal has been made to the TC:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200806/msg00014.html

No objections having been received, we will now request

formation of the DELSC web page and mailing list.

INTERNATIONAL DATA DICTIONARY

JB: Revisions to bring the Spanish, Italian, and Japanese

translations of the UBL 2.0 data dictionary in line with the

2.0 Update Package are now underway.  These three translations

will then go into intial public review as a package, with

German, Slovak, Chinese, and Korean to follow in a later phase.

UBL WORK SCHEDULE

ACTION (1/8): JB to revise the work schedule spreadsheet.

Pending.

JB: An editorial work session on the UBL 2.0 NDR is scheduled

for the Atlantic call next week (2 July).

CUSTOMIZATION GUIDELINES

TM: The latest revision is now with MG/MC.

ACTION: JB to find out status.

UBL 2.1 ISSUES LIST

ACTION (12/18): TM to populate the new issues list with all

currently known UBL 2.1 issues.

Pending.

UBL 2.1 BUSINESS RULES TASK GROUP

From Bologna, affirmed 4/29 and 4/30:

AGREED to form a Business Rules Task Group consisting at a

minimum of G. Ken Holman and Peter Borresen.  Other

interested members of the TC are invited to join.  (PB and

AS have action items from Bologna to provide initial lists

of rules from the PSC and TSC, respectively.)

Outcome of discussion:

We're really looking for two different sorts of schematron

rules here.  One set of rules will enforce UNTDED field

length/type restrictions for those UBL 2.0 constructs that

correspond to UNTDED elements (identified in column S of the

UBL 2.0 spreadsheets).  This set will actually constitute a

UNTDED implementation profile of UBL 2.0, and GKH will

automate its construction by comparing entries in column S

of our models with the UNTDED spreadsheets.

The other set of schematron rules will enforce data

constraints needed in UBL implementations but not

expressible in schemas.  This set will become part of UBL.

TM will check with PLB for input.

2008 TC MEETING SCHEDULE

4-8 August 2008 in Montr�al

Confirmed.  Hotel Europa, rue Drummond (the week prior to

the Balisage conference in the same location).

GKH: Can use the time for various projects already

committed, e.g., HISC, UNTDED rules.

JB: Will check for agenda items in Atlantic call.

19-23 January 2009 in Fremantle

TM: Working on several venue possibilities, one of which is

in Perth.

TC CONCALL SCHEDULE

Week of 30 June
REGULAR SCHEDULE

Week of 07 July
REGULAR SCHEDULE

Week of 14 July
REGULAR SCHEDULE

Week of 21 July
*** CANCELED *** (due to chair travel)

Week of 28 July
*** CANCELED *** (per usual policy)

Week of 04 August TC MEETING IN MONTR�AL

Week of 11 August *** CANCELED *** (per usual policy)

Week of 18 August REGULAR SCHEDULE

Week of 25 August REGULAR SCHEDULE

OTHER BUSINESS

JB: Significance of draft answer to UNTDED Road Map Survey?

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200806/msg00015.html

TM: This is a draft opinion that the TDED should be a data

dictionary.  AS has proposed a wikipedia-like model.

AGREED that we should develop input on this.

ACTION: The TC to study the draft (see URL above) and be ready

to discuss in next week's Pacific and Atlantic calls with the

objective of agreeing on a TC response to the questionnaire.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC