UBL NDR specification submitted for OASIS Standard

[James Bryce Clark <jamie.clark@oasis-open.org>]

OASIS members:

The OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) TC has submitted the UBL
Naming and Design Rules v1.0 revision 1c, an approved Committee Draft, to
be considered as an OASIS Standard.  The TC's submission is attached
below.

In accordance with the OASIS Technical Committee Process, the
specification has already gone through a 30 day public review
period. 
(http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200409/msg00001.html) 
OASIS members now have until the 15th of December to familiarize
themselves with the submission below. OASIS members should give their
input on this question to the voting representative of their
organization.

By the 16th of the month we will send out a Call For Vote to the voting
representatives of the OASIS member organizations, who will have until
the end of the month to cast their ballots on whether this Committee
Draft should be approved as an OASIS Standard.

The normative TC Process for approval of Committee Drafts as OASIS
Standards is found at 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#standard

Any statements related to the IPR of this specification are posted at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/ipr.php

~   James Bryce Clark
~   Director, Standards Development, OASIS
~   +1 978 667 5115 x 203 central offiice

ITEMS SUBMITTED PURSUANT TO THE OASIS TC PROCESS FOR STANDARDIZATION OF
COMMITTEE DRAFTS

1. A formal specification that is a valid member of its type, together
with appropriate documentation for the specification, both of which must
be written using approved OASIS templates.

    The UBL NDR Committee Draft is located at
   
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/10323/cd-UBL-NDR-1.0Rev1c.pdf
    Documentation is included as part of the Committee
Draft.

2. A clear English-language summary of the specification.

    See the Introduction of the Committee Draft.

3. A statement regarding the relationship of this specification to
similar work of other OASIS TCs or other standards developing
organizations.

    The UBL NDR document specifies naming and design rules
and guidelines for the construction of XML components for the UBL
vocabulary.  It is normative with regard to UBL 1.0 schemas and is
also expected to be useful to other XML schema developers, in particular
those implementing ebXML Core Components.

4. Certification by at least three OASIS member organizations that they
are successfully using the specification consistently with the OASIS IPR
Policy.

   The following OASIS member organizations have certified to
the TC that they are successfully using UBL 1.0 and, by implication, the
UBL Naming and Design Rules:

   Sun Microsystems
  
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00037.html

   Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd.
  
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00038.html

   OSS Nokalva
  
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00039.html

   Denmark Ministry of Science, Technology &
Innovation
  
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00041.html

   Center for Document Engineering, University of California at
Berkeley
  
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00040.html

   University of Hong Kong
  
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00048.html

   Korea CALS/EC Association
  
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00059.html

5. An account of each of the comments/issues raised during the public
review period, along with its resolution.

   Comments submitted regarding the UBL NDR CD review of
September / October 2004, together with their disposition by the TC, can
be found at
  
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/9945/UBL-NDR-CD-1.0-comments.xls

6. An account of and results of the voting to approve the specification
as a Committee Draft.

   Results of the NDR CD ballot can be found at
  
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ubl/ballot.php?id=592

7. An account of or pointer to votes and comments received in any earlier
attempts to standardize substantially the same specification, together
with the originating TC's response to each comment.

    The UBL Naming and Design Rules have not previously
been submitted for OASIS standardization.

8. A pointer to the publicly visible comments archive for the originating
TC.

    The UBL comment archive is located at
   
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-comment/

9. A statement from the chair of the TC certifying that all members of
the TC have been provided with a copy of the OASIS IPR Policy.

    Members of the TC were formally notified by email in
the message archived at
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200407/msg00058.html

10. Optionally, a pointer to any minority reports submitted by one or
more TC members who did not vote in favor of approving the Committee
Draft, or certification by the chair that no minority reports
exist.

    No minority reports were submitted.

Submitted by the OASIS UBL TC chair, Jon Bosak
(jon.bosak@sun.com)