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Subject: Ballot: UBL 2.0 Committee Draft for public review
Hello UBL TC, This message is to announce the start of balloting UBL 2.0 as an OASIS Committee Draft. Please read the following for an explanation of what this means and where we are in the overall process. Balloting opens at 1 p.m. New York time Sunday 8 January 2006 and closes at 1 p.m. New York time Sunday 15 January 2006. Since quick approval would be advantageous to our release schedule, I urge you to log in now to the UBL TC site and click on "Ballots" to record your vote. DO NOT use the UBL mailing list for voting; use the web site. Note that you will need to log in using your OASIS password in order to vote. DOCUMENT LOCATION The most recent version of the candidate UBL 2.0 CD is available to members of the TC at http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ubl/download.php/16110/wd-UBL-2.0.zip Note that this file is visible only to members of the UBL TC. RECENT CHANGES The draft located at the URL above (with index.html file dated 8 January 2006) differs from the 4 January build chiefly in (a) the addition of a disclaimer warning people that the current draft is not yet ready for implementation and (b) the designation of your chair and vice chair (myself and Tim McGrath) as "editors." We couldn't figure out a better way of assigning public responsibility for the package assembly and index.html prose. If anyone thinks that this is a bad idea, let us know and we'll discuss it during this week's TC calls; changing it could be easily done if we decided on an alternative, since this would fall into the category of "editorial" work authorized by the text of the ballot resolution given further down in this message. PURPOSE It's important to be clear on the significance of this ballot. People who were with the project during UBL 1.0 development may experience confusion over the meaning of the term Committee Draft, which means something different now than it did when we voted UBL 1.0 as a Committee Draft back in 2004. In the OASIS process in effect during 1.0 development, a Committee Draft referred to a finished product of the TC that was ready for general adoption. Such a product had (at least in our case) already been through several public reviews and represented a finished specification that could then be submitted to the OASIS membership for consideration as an OASIS Standard. This status still exists in the OASIS process, but following a revision to the process that took effect in April 2005, a document at this ready-to-use stage is now called a Committee Specification. The term Committee Draft was recycled to refer to what in UBL 1.0 development we called a Working Draft, the main procedural difference being that a Committee Draft is a Working Draft that has been cleared to *begin* public review. In other words, in approving the present document as a Committee Draft, we're roughly where we were in UBL 1.0 development when we began public review of UBL 0.7. The important thing to understand here is that a vote to approve the current draft as a Committee Draft does *not* signify that we think that UBL 2.0 is ready to be implemented. It just means that we're ready to expose the work to the public and ask for their input. This is why we're proposing to release it even with a bunch of issues already identified. Our announcement of the beginning of this first public review will, of course, contain a disclaimer to this effect. BALLOT TEXT The question to be voted on reads as follows: Resolved, 1. That the OASIS UBL TC approves the UBL 2.0 draft specification currently located at http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ubl/download.php/16110/wd-UBL-2.0.zip as an OASIS Committee Draft. 2. That the UBL TC chairs and secretaries are authorized to make such editorial and formatting changes to the approved document as may be required for publication as an OASIS Committee Draft. 3. That the UBL TC chairs and secretaries are authorized to submit the approved Committee Draft for OASIS public review together with the adjunct materials required by the OASIS standardization process. 4. That the UBL TC chairs and secretaries are authorized to make such further editorial and formatting changes to the approved Committee Draft as may be requested by OASIS Administration to meet the requirements of the OASIS public review process. VOTING REQUIRED Participation in a CD ballot is not optional for voting members of the TC. OASIS rules require "yes" votes from a majority of the entire voting membership of the TC in order to approve a Committee Draft. An abstention or a failure to vote may prevent passage of the resolutions on the ballot, and a failure to vote will count against your standing as a voting member of the TC. In response to requests made during our last formal ballot, I have enabled the ballot interface to accept abstentions. You should understand, however, that in an absolute majority vote such as this one, an abstention has exactly the same effect as a vote to disapprove. Jon Bosak Chair, OASIS UBL TC
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