Minutes of Atlantic UBL TC call 25 May 2005

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MINUTES OF ATLANTIC UBL TC MEETING
15H00 - 17H00 UTC WEDNESDAY 25 MAY 2005

ATTENDANCE

   Jon Bosak (chair)
   Mikkel Brun
   Tony Coates
   Mark Crawford
   Stephen Green
   Anne Hendry
   Paul Thorpe

STANDING ITEMS

   Additions to the calendar (http://ibiblio.org/bosak/ubl/calendar.htm)

      None.

   Liaison reports

      None.

   Subcommittee report: SSC

      StephenG: Hope to meet tomorrow.  Need to look at how things
      are progressing with the NDR.

      ACTION: Anne will send a meeting notice.

   Team report: CodeList

      The chair conveyed a communication from MartyB asking for
      clarification of the statement made in the agenda: "It looks
      like this work is on hold for the moment." JonB explained
      that he was only observing that other NDR questions are
      taking priority in the TC right now.

NEW OASIS MEMBERSHIP PROCEDURES

   The chair noted the revised OASIS TC process effective 15 April
   2005:

      http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php

   An effect of this will be a very sharp reduction in our formal
   voting membership as soon as the chair gets around to reviewing
   recent meeting attendance.

   ACTION: JonB to review recent TC call attendance and change the
   status of members not attending 2/3 of the meetings from
   "voting" to "nonvoting."

TBG17 LIAISON

   ACTION: MikkelB to check to see whether PeterB can fill the
   position of UBL liaison to TBG17 and report back on this 8
   June.

NDR WORK SESSION

   MarkC and StephenG agree that the proposed recategorization of
   Reusables will have no effect on NDR, though it will have an
   impact on the schema generator.

   MikkelB would like to see the distinction reflected at the
   schema level as well with the definition of a separate Core
   schema module.

   MarkC: This is against the whole concept of CCTS and what
   CEFACT is trying to do.

   StephenG: And it would break backwards compatibility.

   Regarding the proposal to split work items over the three
   weekly meetings in the new TC call schedule, it was observed by
   several members that there are serious potential coordination
   problems inherent in the plan, though we cannot reasonably
   decline to implement a call for Asia and Europe.  Of particular
   concern is the chair's suggestion that the Europe/Asia call
   take a lead in sorting through and proposing decisions
   regarding the current crop of NDR issues.  Close coordination
   and active participation from Asia were identified as the key
   risk factors in making this arrangement a success.  It was
   decided to try this out for a couple of weeks and see what
   happens.  The fallback is to hold separate calls for NDR, but
   this would necessarily exclude most Asian input.

   ACTION: JonB to send a message noting this and asking for
   active Asian participation.  The initial task of the new calls
   should be putting our NDR issues in focus for review in the
   Atlantic meetings.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC