Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 20080630|20080701

MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING
TUESDAY 1 JULY 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.

Liaison reports

TM: Sven Rasmussen is taking over from AS as our participant

in TBG17 calls.

Subcommittee report: PSC

ACTION (6/24): TM to discuss status of models with PLB.

Pending; call scheduled this week.

Subcommittee report: TSC

ACTION (6/24): AS to contact Ismar for an update regarding

Danish transportation requirements.

TM: The merger of the Danish and Swedish post offices

will affect UBL implementation.  We need to know the

effect this will have on Danish transport requirements.

AS: Waiting response from Ismar, but this should not

prevent TSC from beginning work on requirements already

identified (including TBG3 concerns).  Will schedule a

meeting including EFM participants.

Review of Atlantic call

TM: Regarding the clarification of our 2006 agreement with

UN/CEFACT: we should also note that the requirements for UBL

2.1 are generated by requests to support existing or planned

implementations of UBL from outside organizations such as

CEN/ISSS BII, the U.S. Department of Transportation, iSURF,

and the government of Spain.

ADOPTION SC / UBL FOCUS AREA

GKH: Have asked OASIS to integrate a google calendar interface.

AGREED that we can now replace the UBL Support Page with a

pointer to uml.xml.org.  ACTION: JB to make it so.

AGREED that the forum component of u.x.o should be disabled and

replaced with pointers to ubl-dev subscription and the ubl-dev

archive.  ACTION: GKH to contact Carol Geyer.

INTERNATIONAL DATA DICTIONARY

JB: Roberto has generated templates and work has begun on

Japanese, Italian, and Spanish updates, but so far we have no

estimates of time to completion from the LSCs.

UBL WORK SCHEDULE

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

Pending finalization of the BII schedule.

CUSTOMIZATION GUIDELINES

ACTION (6/24): JB to find out status.

JB: Nothing back yet from MG and MC.

ACTION: TM to send copy to AS.

ACTION: JB to check with MG and MC in this week's Atlantic

call and begin circulating the current draft to the TC if

they cannot produce a revision soon.

AGREED that the completion of an initial public draft,

including both conformance and compatibility sections, will

be a key deliverable for the meeting in Montr�al.

UBL 2.1 ISSUES LIST

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

currently known UBL 2.1 issues.

Pending.

UNTDED ROAD MAP QUESTIONNAIRE

See

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

AGREED to submit our input as the draft referenced above, with

the substitution of the sentence "The UNTDED should become a

syntax-neutral profile for implementations of the data elements

used in international trade documents" in place of the sentence

"TDED should not be a model - it should be a dictionary."

It was observed that such a profile could usefully include such

things as code lists and business rules as well as field

lengths.

EFM GAP ANALYSIS

See

http://projects.battelle.org/fih/Files/FIH_Comparison_toUBL_v1.pdf

ACTION: AS to schedule a TSC meeting and discuss with DOT

representatives.

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).  See Atlantic

minutes for current attendance list.

Agenda so far:

Customization Guidelines (plenary + GKH, JB, MC)

Business Rules (GKH and PLB)

NDR editorial (JB, MC, ZR)

IDD assembly (JB)

GKH: Change hotel to Europa.

19-23 January 2009 in Fremantle

TM: Still chasing venue; many options.

TC CONCALL SCHEDULE

Week of 07 July
REGULAR SCHEDULE

Week of 14 July
REGULAR SCHEDULE

Week of 21 July
*** CANCELED ***

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

GKH: Two items.

1. Regarding NDR and order of BBIEs in advance of ASBIEs: this

is not a rule, just a pattern.

TM: This is a modeling policy established in order to

maintain a logical sequence as items are added in subsequent

revisions (so that we are not simply adding everything new

at the end).  The schema should express the logical sequence

of the model.

AGREED to add an editorial note to this effect in the NDR

document.

2. OASIS has told Juerg (currently an observer) that only

voting members can post to the UBL TC.

JB: Someone is confused about the distinction between

"member" and "voting member."  Observers cannot post to the

list, but members can (whether voting members or not).  A

nonvoting member can do anything that a voting member can do

except vote.  Juerg needs to add himself to the TC as a

member.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC