(PR) 30-day Public Review for Product Life Cycle Support DEXs Version 1.0

[chet.ensign@oasis-open.org]

The OASIS Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) TC [1] members have recently approved a Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification for 30-day public review:

Product Life Cycle Support DEXs Version 1.0
Committee Specification Public Review Draft 01
1 August 2011

Specification Overview:

The Item Identification DEX is a specification for a ISO 10303-239 (PLCS) data exchange set compliant with the US Department of Defense Item Unique Identification (IUID) standard. The objective is to manage globally unique identifiers and to exchange identification information through the life of a physical (or realized) individual item. The Item Identification DEX can include the following information regarding a single individual item or multiple individual items:

- Identification of the assembly of the item at a given point in the lifecycle;
- Identification of the item including the Unique Item Identifier;
- Identification of the item's acquisition contract;
- Identification of critical lifecycle events, such as Lost, Stolen and Sold, with related item status and condition;
- Identification of item versions;
- Reference to item design information;
- Representation of marks on the item;
- Identification of primary related organizations.

Public Review Period:

The public review starts Monday, 07 November 2011 and ends 07 December 2011.

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

URIs:

The complete package of the prose specification document and related files are available in two ZIP distribution files.

Product Life Cycle Support DEXs V1.0 CSPRD01 contains the primary specification documents:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/44157/dexlib-oasis-release-R6_v1_0.zip

PLCS DEXs V1.0 CSPRD01 additional artifacts contains related components of the specification:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/44189/stepmod-html-20051101.zip

Additional information about the specification and the OASIS Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) TC may be found at the TC's public home page:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/plcs

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located via the button labeled "Send A Comment" at the top of the TC public home, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=plcs

Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/plcs-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public review of Product Life Cycle Support DEXs Version 1.0, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [2] applicable especially [3] to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member's patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification. OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC's work.

========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) TC
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/plcs

[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/plcs/ipr.php
http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#s10.2.3
RF on Limited Terms

Best Regards,

/chet
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Chet Ensign
Director of Standards Development and TC Administration
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
http://www.oasis-open.org

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