Re: Charter Revision

[Jon Bosak <Jon.Bosak@sun.com>]

A couple of questions regarding the charter revision.

 - The bit about "averting a crisis" at the beginning seems rather
   narrow and overwrought now, and the description of UBL as a
   "synthesis of existing XML business libraries" doesn't seem
   quite right, either.  How about:

   1. To create a "Universal Business Language" that will
      standardize common business data structures and allow
      businesses of all sizes to enjoy the benefits of electronic
      commerce.

      (Wordsmithing by email can be quite tedious, so perhaps we
      should schedule some time in an upcoming CSC meeting to
      fiddle with this.)

 - Is it really necessary any more to refer to xCBL?  This has
   been a huge political problem for us right from the beginning.
   I was willing to bear this burden when we were actually
   proceeding "by mutually agreed-upon changes to xCBL 3.0," that
   is, through a procudure of amending the xCBL spec, but we
   abandoned this idea very early on.  Can we drop this?

 - The deliverables seem rather dated, too.  Here's the list from
   the current UBL brochure:

    - A set of Naming and Design Rules for the representation of
      ebXML Business Information Entities (BIEs).

    - A UBL BIE library in the form of standard XML schema
      elements for common business data structures such as
      "party," "address," and "line item."

    - A set of basic business documents assembled from the BIE
      library, such as UBL Order, UBL Receipt Advice, and UBL
      Invoice.

    - A set of formatting specifications for the rendering of the
      basic business documents in human-readable form.

    - In time, a standard context methodology for the automated
      customization of UBL to fit different business environments.

   We still need to work in a reference to CCTS, but this list
   seems to me a better place to start.

Jon