Meeting minutes

["Newell, Oliver" <olivern@ll.mit.edu>]

Meeting minutes attached...

-Oliver


            ebXML RegRep Technical Committee Telcon Minutes, 6/10/2009

Attendees:

  Kathryn Breininger
  Farrukh Najmi
  Carl Mattocks
  Nikola Stojanovic
  Oliver Newell


Kathryn inquired whether there were comments on the previous minutes. There
were no comments, and the minutes were approved.


The first topic on the agenda was to review the response from the
ISO 11179 specification authors to the feedback the ebXML RegRep TC
provided. The response was generally positive, and it appears the 
interaction was viewed as beneficial by both specification teams. 
There was some discussion as to the next step, and whether the RegRep
TC would provide a second iteration of feedback based on the response
to our initial feedback. The concensus was that additional feedback
at this point was subject to the law of diminishing returns, but an
ongoing interaction with the ISO 11179 team would certainly
be valuable. Kathryn compiled a list of issues to communicate to the
11179 TC related to establishing such an interaction, such as 
access to each others draft specifications online. Nikola mentioned
that the ebXML RegRep spec could benefit from a review by the ISO 
11179 committee, in return for our review of 11179. He also commented
that a reference to the ebXML RegRep spec should be added to the 
11179 bibliography. These issues were added to issue list for the 11179 TC.



The topic shifted to the resolution of a number of open issues, in
particular, issues REGREPTC-85, REGREPTC-86, REGREPTC-87, and REGREP-88. 

Oliver mentioned that it might make sense to move the JIRA issue data
from the MIT Lincoln Laboratory JIRA instance to the new OASIS JIRA 
instance. The feasability of doing this will be investigated.


- REGREP-85 Discussion

Farrukh described the need for a new query to get a set of objects based
on their logical id rather than their unique id. There was general 
agreement that the query was needed. Since a logical id can be shared by
multiple versions of a registry object, the query can return multiple
registry objects. A name change from 'GetObjectByLid' to 'GetRegistryObjectsByLid'
was suggested to make clear that the query could return multiple objects.
There was general agreement that the name change made sense. Nicola
mentioned that care should be taken to use the plural form consistently for
all queries.


- REGREP-86 Discussion

This issue focuses on the the semantics of 'Submitted' and 'Draft' in ebXML
status fields. 'Draft' has been introduced as part of the registration procedures
and has some semantic overlap with 'Submitted' in the core specifiction.
There is a desire to minimize the number of different definitions
for the same concept where possible.

There was considerable discussion as to whether the usage of 'Draft' in
the regproc, actually did overlap the usage of 'Submitted' in the core
spec, or whether it was in fact a separate concept. The issue was not
resolved during the telcon, and remains open. The group ageed to hold
additional discussion on the issue on the mailing list.

- REGREP-87 Discussion

Farrukh described the need for a new query to support retrieval of audit trail
information. Nikola suggestion to split the query into two queries, one for the
Logical id, and one for the id, was well-received.


- REGREP-88 Discussion

A long-standing issue with the RegRep 3 spec was the lack of a way to retrieve
only the latest version of an object via a query, rather than all versions.
REGREP-88 adds an attribute that specifies whether or not to match older versions.
There was agreement that this addition to the core attributes for all queries made
sense. [In a follow up email thread subsequent to the call, it was agreed that
the default for the attribute would be false, preventing older versions from being
returned]