SBSC Charter (updated)

["Stephen Green" <stephen_green@bristol-city.gov.uk>]

Stephen Green and G. Ken Holman are pleased to submit the following
as a charter for the UBL Small Business SubCommittee (SBSC).
(log of changes from previous version attached)



SBSC Charter (Date: Feb 2005):



1. To liaise with small business industry and organizations responsible for 
e-commerce systems on smaller scales than those requiring the full scope of 
UBL features and functionality.

2. To rapidly develop, document and maintain a formal subset of published 
UBL deliverables as a limited scope of UBL features and functionality.

3. To foster implementations of this subset through coordination, 
guidance and responsiveness to queries, in order to test the viability of 
such UBL limitations in real-world scenarios.

4. To discover general principles for the development and selection of UBL 
facilities and for the adaptations of human interface presentations (output 
and input) of the small business subset

5. To liaise regarding the small business subset as required with other 
subcommittees in UBL


Possible deliverables:

1. Small business subset

2. Machine-processable expressions of the small business subset

3. User documentation of the small business subset

4. Principles of the development and selection of UBL facilities 
and of the adaptations of human interface presentations (output 
and input) for the small business subset

5. Catalogue of known implementations of the small business subset


Scope of work:

This committee's work is not undertaken to change any definition of UBL 
semantics or grammatical constraints expressed in the normative UBL W3C 
Schemas.

Through analysis of real-world requirements for small business 
users of UBL, this committee will document in both human- and 
machine-readable fashions a subset of UBL components decided to be of use 
in the transactions characterized by such users.

At no time will instances conforming to this subset of UBL ever not 
conform to the complete version of UBL from which the subset is derived.


Manner and schedule of work:

The work of the subcommittee will be primarily through a mail list set up 
on OASIS for subcommittee work. Access by the public will be through an 
openly available mail list archive.

A library of intermediate work materials (links, files, meeting minutes, 
examples, etc.) will be maintained through the subcommittee web site and 
will be open for public access.

The pace of development will attempt to keep up with the release of new 
UBL document models and input from the user community.

Teleconferences will be scheduled on a regular basis (perhaps as often as 
every week or two) using the standard teleconference line.




Many thanks.

Stephen Green

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