Minutes from Atlantic Conference Call - 02 December 2004

[marion.royal@gsa.gov]

A shortened teleconference occurred with the following attendees:

Marion Royal
Ken Holman
Sylvia Webb
Ken Sall
Marty Burns
Paul Thorpe
Tony Coats
Mike Grimely
Jessica Glace
Mark Johnson
Monica Martin

Marion Royal led the discussion and collected these notes

Code List Subcommittee
Mary Burns reported that he and Tony had been exchanging email to determine
the requirements for the 1.1 release.  Once they obtain a consensus, they
will share the document with the wider audience for approval.

Action - Marty is to create milestones and publish to the list.

TB17
Marion Royal reported that the TBG17 meeting is next week in West Palm
Beach, Florida

HISC
Ken Holman stated that he is having difficulties getting quorum on the
their teleconferences, but that they have been discussing how the work on
the input side can progress.  The "geeks" are ready to do their technical
work, but the need to know what people want to see.  They want to focus on
determining the requirements and create formal input specifications so that
the output may be achieved through a variety of mechanisms. Thus, the goal
is not to produce XForms or Adobe documents, but to make sure that
everything needed is collected during the input side.  The team needs help
from the UBL members to understand the requirements in total.
Ken Sall asked if anyone had tried to take the UBL schemas and use Adobe
Forms Designer.  Ken replied that they had not tried.  With so many
elements per order line, its difficult to know which are important.  It was
suggested that an email request for more input be sent to the full mail
list.

No other Liaison or SCs reported


Marion suggested that we table discussion of the issues on the agenda
because we were missing some key people.  There was no objection and we
went into general discussion.


General discussion


Jessica Glace expressed some concern regarding work they have been doing
and problems when trying to flatten the schemas.  When you have modular
schema, it's not difficult to flatten the included files that do not have a
namespace, but she has run into problems when each module has its own
namespace.
Sylvia Webb said that the software subcommittee has noted this and there
were ways to avoid the problems when using the EDIFIX tool.

Ken Sall questioned the process of registering new acronyms and
abbreviations.  It was suggested that he send the question to the mail list
in order to get a complete answer.

The call ended at 11:30 Eastern US time.



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