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Subject: UBL TC choreography
Members of the UBL Group, Note that this message is also being copied to the new list ubl@lists.oasis-open.org for the information of a few people who have subscribed to the OASIS UBL TC mailing list but are not subscribers to the bl-discussion list. As all subscribers to the bl-discussion list know from previous messages, the OASIS TC submission agreed upon by the UBL Group has been accepted in OASIS, and we're now proceeding toward the formation of the OASIS UBL TC on 29 October 2001. Making the transition from the UBL Group to the UBL TC shouldn't be terribly difficult, but it does involve a bit of procedural dovetailing. The purpose of this message is to cover two basic aspects of that transition: handing off the work of the UBL Group to the UBL TC, and management of the corresponding mail lists. 1. Handoff from UBL Group to OASIS TC To avoid confusion, it's important to be clear on the distinction between the UBL Group and the UBL TC. The UBL Group is an ad-hoc committee of companies and individuals working toward a Universal Business Language. It has no status within the standards world, but it does exist as a voluntary association following its own procedures, which were specified by resolution of the Group at its meeting in Palo Alto 26-27 April 2001. So at this point, the UBL Group has a generic legal status equivalent to that of a church group or a fraternal organization or a labor union. The UBL OASIS TC, on the other hand, will, when it is formally constituted, be a technical committee of a standards body, namely the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, which is a nonprofit corporation whose process is specifically designed for the standardization of XML tag languages. The UBL Group already has some committees at work, as I will describe elsewhere. Those committees have been tasked to report their findings to the UBL Group when it meets 29 October at facilities to be donated by Sun in the San Francisco Bay Area. The UBL OASIS TC does not yet exist. As mandated by the OASIS TC process, the UBL TC will come into being when it holds its first meeting, which is also scheduled for 29 October at facilities to be donated by Sun in the San Francisco Bay Area. I propose the following schedule for 29 October: 10h00 to 12h00: UBL Group meeting - Report of the committees formed in Montreal (August 2001) - Adjournment until the call of the chair (if all goes as intended, this call will never actually occur and the UBL Group will, in effect, cease to exist) 14h00 to 16h00: UBL TC first meeting - Acceptance of input - UBL Group committee reports - xCBL - XEDI and VCML - other contributions - Formation of working committees - Liaisons - Other business The schedule for the rest of the meeting week has yet to be determined. Under ordinary circumstances, I would expect something resembling the usual committee meetings on Tuesday through Thursday followed by a plenary to wrap up on Friday morning, but current events may require us to rethink this. The issues surrounding meeting logistics will be addressed in other messages, so please save your comments on this subject until we get to it. Note that the reports to be received by the UBL Group from the committees created in Montreal when it meets the morning of 29 October will be nonbinding contributions to the work of the UBL TC when it meets that same afternoon. 2. List management The OASIS TC process mandates that when a TC is formed, two lists are created by OASIS for transactions related to that TC: a list for members of the TC and a list called the comment list for use by the rest of the world. The idea is to incorporate as wide a range of thoughts and inputs as can be acquired while at the same time putting concrete decisions into the hands of a smaller group of people who are completely devoted to the effort and can be counted on to attend meetings and cast votes. The big group uses the comment list; the decision-making body uses the members' list. I have been attempting to reflect this basic distinction in the UBL Group by strictly distinguishing between voting members and observers. It's my intention to populate the UBL TC list (ubl@lists.oasis-open.org) with the voting members of the TC (as determined at the first TC meeting 29 October, not as determined by the existing structure of the UBL Group) and to move everyone else on the UBL Group list, including observers in the current UBL Group, into the TC comment list (ubl-comment@lists.oasis-open.org). We can discuss this further at the meeting. While the OASIS TC lists are accepting subscriptions now, they cannot be used for the actual business of the TC until 29 October. However, I will take advantage of the existence of the TC list by occasionally copying basic organizational messages like this one for the information of people who are subscribed to the TC list but not to the bl-discussion list. Jon Bosak Chair, UBL Group Designated Chair, UBL TC
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