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Subject: UBL plans (was: Re: ebXML, Hutchinson... ContainerShipment...)
[chiusano_joseph@bah.com:] | A thought: I wonder if this could fall under the next phase of UBL | (which would be 1.1), for Materials Management. According to slide | 6 of [1], which is a presentation that Tim McGrath gave in Hong | Kong in May 2004, Materials Management is one of the areas that | UBL is planning to tackle in its next phase (unless that has | changed, which I have not heard). | [...] | [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-lcsc/200405/msg00003.html The slide referred to lists the document targets that UBL began with three years ago. This remains the default statement of our goals, though if we were to revise this list today, I personally would give first priority to the document types listed in the table "Paper Documents Required for International Trade" that can be found on page 9 of the 2001 APEC study published by the Government of Australia Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation [2]. Since the UBL TC is not trying to set itself up as competition for established international trade facilitation organizations such as UN/CEFACT, however, we expect additions to the document types we've just released in the new UBL 1.0 CD to come into UBL as submissions from groups of domain experts. For example, we have received and will soon begin discussion of a key paperless trade document, the Certificate of Origin [3]. The CO contribution from Crimson Logic of Singapore is based on the UBL 1.0 library and shows the form in which we expect such submissions to be made. Joe's reference to UBL 1.1 requires a word of explanation regarding current UBL status and our plans for the coming year. UBL 1.0 completed its final round of TC balloting on Wednesday 15 September and has now been submitted to OASIS with a request that the Committee Draft be placed before the OASIS organizational membership next month for their approval as an OASIS Standard. Barring a negative vote or some procedural delay, UBL 1.0 will become an OASIS Standard at the beginning of November. In parallel with the completion of the 1.0 CD, UBL localization subcommittees have been working to translate the UBL data dictionary and key parts of the accompanying documentation into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. All of these translation efforts are well advanced, and initial drafts either have been or soon will be circulated for public review. We are currently planning release of these translations to coincide with what we hope to be the approval of UBL 1.0 in November. Discussions regarding the formation of localization committees for some other major languages have also begun, though it is too early to predict specific deliverables. Based on statistics regarding the language distribution of current Internet users, however, it appears that the four translations already underway, combined with the original English, will make UBL data elements understandable to about two-thirds of the world's current online population. But these translations are also be expected to uncover ambiguities in the data definitions and to raise a number of issues related to differences in regional trade practices. UBL 1.1 schemas, which should become available in the second half of 2005, will (by definition) preserve backwards compatibility with UBL 1.0 instances. Work items for 1.1 include: - A number of issues raised during the development of UBL 1.0 that were judged safely deferrable to 1.1 - Refinements and clarifications of the UBL data definitions arising from the translation work - Additions to the UBL library identified by the UBL localization subcommittees as required to accommodate regional business practices - Consideration of proposed additions to the UBL document set submitted by qualified organizations So in answer to Joe's original question, UBL would welcome the addition of document types for materials management based on the UBL library if they were submitted by recognized expert groups in a form that allowed us to incorporate them directly into the next release, but we are not planning to develop them within the UBL TC. Jon [2] http://www.dfat.gov.au/publications/paperless/paperless_trading.pdf [3] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/8703/UBL-COO-091.zip
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