UBL F2F TC Plenary Minutes Brussels, May 22 2006

[Mavis Cournane <mavis.cournane@cognitran.com>]

Dear all
please find below the minutes of the TC Plenary session on May 22 2006.
See the bottom of the minutes for the revised agenda for Tues.

Regards
Mavis
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1. Roll Call

Mavis Cournane (acting chair)
Sylvia Webb
Peter Borresen
Mark Leitch
Sun-Ho Kim
Sung Hyuk Kim
Tim McGrath (phone)
Yukinori Saito (phone)
Andy Schoka (phone)
Stephen Green (phone)
Oriol Bausa (phone)
Kamarudin Tambi (phone)
Emilio Castrillejo (observer)
John Ketchell (obeserver)
Karsten Tolle (observer)
Freddy De Vos (observer)
Elias Lizardos (observer)
Tim Benson (observer)

Opening Plenary
0. John Ketchell (CEN Director, Pre-Standards) provided a comprehensive 
introduction to CEN and its work for the UBL TC.

1. Mavis Cournane (UBL TC acting chair) extended the thanks of the UBL 
TC to CEN/ISSS for hosting this meeting.

2. The JPLSC was presented by Yukinori Saito. See slides posted to the 
UBL list for further details. Then next JPLSC meeting is on May 24th 
and they will discuss creation of a reference table for UBL.

3. The KRLSC report presented by Sun-Ho Kim.
Tim McGrath noted there is some misunderstanding by KIESC as to UBL's 
compliance status with CCTS. UBL is awaiting formal approval that we 
are CCTS compliant.
Additionally, details were provided about KSC work on a custom 
document. Sun-ho Kim will provide Tim McGrath with a contact to discuss 
using the KSC's custom document as the basis for the TSCs custom 
document. See slides posted to the UBL list for further details.

4. The Danish LSC report was provided by Peter Borresen. See slides 
posted to the UBL list for further details.

5. The TSC report was provided by Kamarudin Tambi.

6. The Madrid Trip Report was provided by Tim McGrath with input from 
Oriol Bausa
There are a number of projects ongoing in Spain.
Balearic islands government-wide have adopted the UBL invoice. That 
project came directly out of the Spanish Localization subcommittee.
A further project involves  the ministry of economy. It is the first 
phase of a supply implementation based on UBL for e-business. They have 
started with e-tendering which is not within scope of the UBL 2.0. It 
is feasible that the products of this project could form part of some 
future development of UBL.
It is at an early stage in being able to coordinate this project with 
TBG6 within UN/CEFACT. We can use the e-tendering as vehicle to bring 
together the work of UBL 2.0, TBG 6 etc.
There is a specific request for the North European SC to talk to Oriol 
Bausa about this.

The second project is an  invoicing project for the banking system and 
being driven by the spanish tax agency together with a group of banks 
has defined a proprietary XML invoice. They have become aware of UBL 
and are interested in migrating their invoice towards a UBL 2.0 invoice 
and have started a gap analysis.  Note: This has not been discussed 
with Tax XML.

7. Mark Leitch provided an informal report on the PSC. The focus this 
week will be the disposition of the comments, implement changes to the 
spreadsheets and finalize these so that the schemas can be generated.

8. Emilio Castrillejo from IDABC stated that they were beginning work 
on e-cataloguing. He would welcome the opportunity for this 
organization to provide input in to Oasis initiatives like UBL. The TC 
agreed that Jon Bosak would liaise with Emilio to see what is 
achievable.

9. The discussion on the Gap analysis and the UN/CEFACT next steps 
discussion with Freddy De Vos has been deferred. The UBL TC will need 
to review Tim's document tomorrow morning and decide what can be 
achieved within the time frames. Freddy needs to bring this information 
back to TBG1.
The discussion on what can be done on the UBL side with given resource 
will take place at the plenary session tomorrow, from 9:30-12:00
Further discussions of Tim's document is needed on subsequent TC calls 
to see what can be done in terms of transport, NDR etc. Jon will add 
these discussions to subsequent TC calls.

10. Revised agenda for Tues 5/23
   Tue 5/23 09:00-09:30 Work team coordination & setup
             09:30-10:00 HISC and SBSC reports
             10:00-12:00 Discussion of Tim's next steps document and the 
way forward with Supply Chain work and TBG1
             12:00-13:30 Lunch
             13:30-17:00 Breakout session - implement comment 
dispostions in the spreadsheets.