Agenda for HISC teleconferences

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

Fellow HISC members,

The next two teleconferences for UBL HISC are scheduled as:

14H30 - 16H30 UTC THURSDAY 9 FEBRUARY 2006
    06h30 - 08h30 Mon San Francisco
    09h30 - 11h30 Mon New York
    22h30 - 00h30 Tue Hong Kong, Singapore, Perth, Beijing
    23h30 - 01h30 Tue Seoul, Tokyo
    01h30 - 03h30 Tue Sydney
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14H30 - 16H30 UTC TUESDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2006
    06h30 - 08h30 Mon San Francisco
    09h30 - 11h30 Mon New York
    22h30 - 00h30 Tue Hong Kong, Singapore, Perth, Beijing
    23h30 - 01h30 Tue Seoul, Tokyo
    01h30 - 03h30 Tue Sydney
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    U.S. domestic toll-free number: (866)839-8145
    Int. access/caller paid number: (865)524-6352
    Access code: 5705229
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(and following Tuesdays to the end of March unless we get another 
request for change)

Agenda:

  - review of UBL 2.0 preliminary outline for UBL 2.0 support 
materials as described in the Manhattan minutes:

       http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200602/msg00005.html

  - from that summary I glean the following deliverables related to HISC
in the Support Package:

       Output formatting specifications (may not include all doctypes)
          Owners: HISC (GHK and ZR, possible DK consultant)
          Timeline: 8 doc types, end of Feb; cutoff end of May
          Dependency: mid-April cutoff for all layouts;
             sample instances from SBS now; examples from DK assumed
             by mid-March
          Stylesheets at same time as completion of formatting specs
       Input mapping and XForms
          Owner: BR
          Timeline: don't know; will start right away;
             cutoff end of may

  - other related items in the support package (but not the 
responsibility of HISC as a committee, but the responsibility of HISC 
members outside of the committee)

       Sample implementations of output formatting specifications (GKH)
       Sample implementations of input mappings and XForms (BR)

  - an item I would like to add to the support package is the list of 
known implementations of the output and input specifications so that 
people who obtain the package will see where implementations other 
than the included samples can be found.  Personally, I'm reluctant to 
include the samples as they are only a snapshot of a couple of 
implementations, so the pointers could be framed in prose that 
indicates "the latest implementations can be found..." as well as 
point to alternative implementations.  One thing that never happened 
with UBL 1.0 is a dynamic web page on the OASIS site that can be 
updated by HISC with the list of known implementations that would, 
hopefully, entice other implementers to make their implementations 
known (Zarella, would your new secretary responsibilities give you 
this action of considering how we would do this effectively?)

  - Zarella, if you have time in advance of the meeting please post 
the current set of output formatting specifications you created in 
Ottawa?  I see two action items regarding those documents:  (1) 
review of machine-processable form properties from DocBook sources 
(GKH); and (2) review of prose and document structure (ZR and rest of 
committee)

  - Bryan and Peter, if you have time in advance of the meeting 
please post your objectives and plans for:  (1) the writing of input 
mappings and XForms specifications for use by anyone to create an 
implementation (part of HISC responsibility); and (2) the Danish 
implementation of those specifications as a representative example 
and a resource for others to use (not part of HISC responsibility, 
but still can be included in the package)

  - by tomorrow's meeting OASIS should have posted revised guidelines 
to the writing of OASIS specifications using DocBook that I am 
completing today, so I could review that with HISC members

  - note from the Manhattan minutes that the UBL committee is 
expecting from us a draft package by the end of February outlining or 
even detailing (if possible) as much of our deliverables as possible, 
so please consider how much you feel can be done by that time (note 
that for output specifications the only commitment for UBL 2 is the 
eight document types of UBL 1, but it would be nice if we had more 
document types by that time)

  - the UBL committee will also want to know what we think we might 
be able to do, and what our dependencies will be, regarding the 
end-of-May cutoff

  - I'd like to discuss who will take on the packaging of HISC 
materials to deliver to the UBL committee for inclusion in the 
packages (Zarella, could you please consider taking this step on?)

  - please note that I personally have both standalone and support 
package responsibilities related to code lists that will impact on my 
contribution time for HISC


If any member has other suggestions for agenda items for these 
meetings, please post them.  If we can do as much work as possible 
over the mail lists, that will reduce the time needed for the teleconferences.

Thanks!

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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