Minutes for Europe/Asia TC meeting Wednesday 24th August

[Tim McGrath <tmcgrath@portcomm.com.au>]

Minutes for UBL TC meeting 08H00 - 10H00 UTC WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST 2005

Attendees:
Thomas Lee
Mavis Cournane
Sue Probert
Mikkel Hippe Brun
Tim McGrath

1. STANDING ITEMS
  Additions to the calendar (http://ibiblio.org/bosak/ubl/calendar.htm)
*  Thomas Lee will include a section on UBL (and its development of the 
APEC document set) at the APEC Paperless Trading conference September 
1-5 in Beijing
*  There is a forum on interopeable e-business standards in Seoul on 
11th October
*  Mikkel will present  at XML 2005 in Atlanta (already on schedule)
  Liaison reports
* Tim attended the TBG17 meeting  (August 1-5) for 3 days.  TBG17 intend 
to have a draft CC library for review by the CEFACT forum at the end of 
September. This is being derived for several submissions including UBL's.
  Subcommittee reports (including the new Procurement and Transportation 
SCs)
* Procurement SC met informally last week to arrange the transfer of the 
spreadsheet models from Stephen Green to Peter Borresen. We think Mark 
Leitch is back from leave this week.
* Transportation SC met last week. They are about to commence aligning 
COML data model with the generalized DTTN one.
  Team reports
* Catalogue team was formed in Copenhagen last week. Many European 
groups were represented and a comprehensive set of requirements were 
identified.

2. CONTENT WORK
* Document Models
last week Stephen, Peter,  Tim (and Tim Benson from OGC) went through 
the models.  as a result draft 2.0 spreadsheet models are being updated 
by Stephen and then passed to Peter for review.  At the same time Sylvia 
is attempting to load these into EDIFIX.  If we can achieve this this 
week we are back on schedule.
Tim Benson has created a gap analysis of these models and the OGC 
requirements.

3. NDR WORK
Mavis reported that the decision to use ATG2 unqualified data types (and 
core component types) reduced the size of the NDR document by reducing 
the number of rules.  there are revised diagrams.  the new NDR document 
is considered stablized and should be reviewed by any interested party 
and any comments submitted by next week.  It is available for the UBL 
web site.
The remaining NDR issues relate to code lists but it may be that with 
the "instance/application" validation principle there are no NDR issues.
It was proposed that we should commence looking at the customization 
issues now and start to define the terms of reference and deliverables 
for such a project.

4. Other items
none

Next meeting will be at the same time and number on  August 31st.

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regards
tim mcgrath
phone: +618 93352228  
postal: po box 1289   fremantle    western australia 6160

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