Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 17|18 January 2005

[jon.bosak@sun.com]

MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING
00H30 - 02H30 UTC TUESDAY 18 JANUARY 2005

ATTENDANCE

   Jon Bosak (chair)
   Micah Dubinko
   Betty Harvey
   Tim McGrath
   Sylvia Webb

STANDING ITEMS

   Additions to the calendar (http://ibiblio.org/bosak/ubl/calendar.htm)

      None.

   Liaison reports

      None.

   Subcommittee reports

      SSC (SylviaW): Met last week; reorganizing and focusing on
      1.1; nothing significant to report.

      HISC (MicahD): Had a call last week; think we have a good
      game plan.

   Team reports

      None.

ISSUES FOR DISCUSSION THIS MEETING

   Questions from Altova:

      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200501/msg00022.html

   Regarding file extensions: The question implies that there is
   just one UBL doctype, which is not the case.  We used ".xml"
   for our sample instances, and this should probably be the
   default.

   Regarding document templates: Again, we have several doctypes
   in UBL, not just one.  Altova probably wants something similar
   to our sample instances, but none of them (indeed, probably no
   real-world instance) contains all of the possible elements.  We
   think something like the small-business profile that StephenG
   and GKenH have been working on is what would be most
   appropriate for this.

   Regarding the catalog: We believe that Altova is referring to
   the SGML Open catalog, which associates public identifiers with
   physical locations (and therefore allows Altova to ship just
   the URLs, not the schemas themselves).

   JonB to put Altova in contact with StephenG regarding the
   small-business profile.

   JonB to point Altova to the canonical schema locations on the
   OASIS site.

CONTENT WORK SESSION

   The work session continued under the direction of TimM.  BettyH
   has recorded the outcomes in the content issues list; they are
   noted here for people following this through the minutes.  All
   of these items relate to requests from the Swedish Association
   of Local Authorities.

   With regard to DeliveryInformation, we will seek more
   information (is this equivalent to existing DeliveryTerms?).

   Agreed: We accept InvoicingPeriod as a new ASBIE in Invoice
   with cardinality of 0..1.

   Agreed: We accept the proposed "InitialInvoiceDocumentReference"
   as a new ASBIE in Invoice with cardinality of 0..n, but we do
   not accept the proposed name; we have tentatively named this
   new ASBIE "PreviousInvoiceDocumentReference" pending further
   discussion.

   Agreed: We accept the proposed "RequisitionistDocumentReference"
   as a new BBIE in InvoiceLine with cardinality of 0..1, but we
   have named this new BBIE "RequisitionistIdentifier".

   Regarding the proposed AllowanceChargeBaseAmount, we think we
   have all the information we need from the proposers; now we
   need to assess the taxation reporting implications outside of
   Europe.

   Regarding the proposed TaxCurrencyTaxAmount, we wonder whether
   this applies outside of Europe; we will study the IDA analysis
   to gain a better understanding of the requirements.

   JonB to put TimM in contact with the IDA/CEN invoicing project.

The Pacific TC call will occur as scheduled next week, with the
first part of the meeting devoted to a discussion of the draft
multilingual UBL data dictionary:

   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200501/msg00023.html

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC