Minutes of UBL TC face-to-face meeting in Stockholm, Dec. 1, 2014

In attendance:

 - Oriol Bausa (by teleconference)
 - Peter Borresen
 - Kees Duvekot
 - Martin Forsberg
 - G. Ken Holman (co-chair)
 - Kari Korpela, Lappeenranta University of Technology (guest)
 - Ole Madsen
 - Tim McGrath (co-chair)
 - Andy Schoka (by teleconference)

Discussion points through the day:

 - Tim
   - review of the charter - most of our goals of 13 years ago have been met
   - brief history of UBL accomplishments
   - "Why are we still here?"
    - still don't have the "HTML for eBusiness"
    - need for technology beyond EDIFACT
    - maybe UBL should be the "lingua franca" rather than the "HTML"
      of eBusiness
    - is there a value we can add as a technical committee (beyond
      maintenance)?

 - Martin
   - work of CEN PC 434
   - directive on eInvoicing must be implemented by 2018
   - the semantic model of the core invoice developed by CEN must have
     been mapped to syntaxes well before this date.

 - JTC 1 PAS Submission
   - what is the status of the disposition of comments recommended by the
     TC and sent to OASIS for submission to JTC 1?
   - awaiting word from OASIS

 - presentation from Kari of Lappeenranta University of Technology regarding
   the publicly-available information regarding his project about Virtual
   Services
    https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=54664

 - reports from the subcommittees and task groups
  - HISC - by Ken and Peter
    - Peter presented his work with spreadsheets as a specification of mapping
    - the committee agreed to replace the KAVI Docbook invoice with a
      committee note based on Peter's layout specification spreadsheets
    - the group was reminded this work is useful for both print and data entry
    - will clean up the spreadsheets with the goal to make them part of a
      committee note regarding a suggested committee mapping of UBL to the
      UN Layout Key
    - the spreadsheets will be tested by two independent implementations,
      one from Clearview Trade by Peter and one from Crane Softwrights by Ken
    - more implementations will be invited for any interested parties

  - NDR - by Ken
    - Ken presented the first draft of his work on the new version of the
      naming and design rules
    - the committee agreed with the approach in the new documentation that