Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 8|9 September 2008

MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING
TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2008

ATTENDANCE

Jon Bosak (chair)

G. Ken Holman

Tim McGrath (vice chair)

Andy Schoka

MINUTES OF THE UBL TC MEETING IN MONTRÉAL

Pending.

STANDING ITEMS

Additions to the calendar:

http://ubl.xml.org/events

None.

Subcommittee report: PSC

TM: On hold till after BII meeting.

Subcommittee report: TSC

AS: Minutes of 4 September meeting are at

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-tsc/200809/msg00000.html

Review of Atlantic call minutes

No comments.

INTERNATIONAL DATA DICTIONARY

JB: Waiting for Denmark to finish updates.

UBL WORK SCHEDULE

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

Pending finalization of the BII schedule this month.

CUSTOMIZATION GUIDELINES

ACTION (9/2): All authors of the Guidelines to send original

art to JB.

JB: Still missing a few.

Regarding Stephen Green's comments:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200809/msg00005.html

Section 1.2.1, Lines 196/198

AGREED that the conformance definition is currently just for

purposes of the Guidelines document, none of which is

normative.  However, it may well form the basis for a

conformance clause in UBL 2.1.

With regard to the Additional Document Constraints, we note

that the prohibition against empty elements is not the only

such constraint; there is also

[IND2] All UBL instance documents MUST identify their

character encoding within the XML declaration.

And this constraint would be necessary to preserve

regardless of opinions regarding empty elements.

AGREED to add the parenthesis "(and does not violate any of

the Additional Document Constraints specified in the UBL

standard)" to the second sentence (196-197).

AS: The document presupposes familiarity with CCTS concepts

and terminology.

JB/TM/GKH: This barrier to understanding is unfortunate, but

lacking resources to create a readable introduction to CCTS,

we must default to the CCTS spec itself.

AS: Colors used to differentiate ABIEs from ASBIEs in

Figs. 5-7 don't come through in printouts.

ACTION: GKH to revise artwork to eliminate the color-coded

labels.

AGREED that JB will revise per this discussion and submit to

TC for approval as first public review draft.

UBL 2.1 ISSUES LIST

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

currently known UBL 2.1 issues.

In progress.

QUESTIONS ON 2.0 FROM JPLSC

Discussed on this call:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200809/msg00000.html

AGREED to the following dispositions:

1. (1) (a-c)

To be put on the issues list for 2.1.

2. (1 and 2) We agree, and this is already on the 2.1 issues

list in formation.

3. To be put on the issues list; will fix in 2.1.

2009 TC MEETING SCHEDULE

19-23 January 2009 in Fremantle

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200808/msg00010.html

Expected attendance: TM, MC, GKH; possibly AS, MG, AH

The rest of the 2009 meeting schedule is on hold till after

the upcoming UN/CEFACT Plenary.

April/May 2009

East coast North America (probably in DC area or possibly in

Ottawa) has been suggested, but it's possible that we will

have an opportunity to meet with UN/CEFACT at their 20-24

April 2009 Forum in Rome.

August 2009

We are agreed on a preliminary plan to meet the week before

or the week after the Balisage conference in Montréal; this

would be 3-7 August or 10-14 August 2009, depending on which

is chosen for Balisage.  It's possible that we will wish to

hold a plenary in conjunction with the UN/CEFACT Forum in

Sapporo 28 September - 2 October, in which case the Montréal

meeting will be considered a working session.

TC CONCALL SCHEDULE

Regular schedule for the next couple of months.

GKH: On west coast for next two Mondays.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC