Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 28|29 August 2006

[jon.bosak@sun.com]

MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING
00:30 - 02:30 UTC TUESDAY 29 AUGUST 2006

ATTENDANCE

   Jon Bosak (chair)
   G. Ken Holman
   Tim McGrath (vice chair)
   Andy Schoka
   Kumar Sivaraman

STANDING ITEMS

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

      TM: Add TM to UBL conference in Denmark; add PB and possibly
      ML to UN/CEFACT Forum in New Delhi.

      ACTION: TM and AS to confirm dates for the meeting in
      Singapore in this week's TSC meeting.  (It is understood
      that TM will chair the meeting.)

   Liaison report: UN/CEFACT

      TM: See this report:

         http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200608/msg00089.html

      The TBG1/UBL working group will meet again at the end of
      September to continue convergance upon a "third solution" --
      a best-of-breed combination of UBL and TBG1 work.  We need
      to talk about the resolutions adopted in the meeting, how to
      resolve differences in approach, the scope of the effort,
      design rules, etc., as well as the very aggressive schedule
      adopted by the group and the need for reporting to the TC
      and getting feedback from the TC.  It's the desire of the
      group to put a proposal before the Forum in October.  The TC
      needs to review the project plan.

      JB: Too much to do this week getting PRD3 ready.  Will put
      this on the agenda for the Atlantic call next week.

   Liaison report: X12

      KS: Attending the meeting in Boston at the end of next
      month.

   Subcommittee report: HISC

      Still on hold.

   Team report: Code Lists

      GKH: The new OASIS Code List TC held its inaugural meeting
      today.  About eight people participated, and an almost equal
      number have signed up but couldn't attend this week due to
      holidays in Europe.  Everyone is supportive of moving
      genericode 0.4 to OASIS standard as soon as possible.
      Genericode version 1.0 may even be ready in time for the
      first release of the UBL 2.0 Support Package.

      GKH is working of 0.7 of the UBL Code List Metholodogy.  The
      revision does not affect the current defaultCodeList.xsl.

   Subcommittee report: PSC

      TM: Long call yesterday.  Have been trying to clarify action
      items from the issues list and have added one -- just
      another spreadsheet edit for PB.  Spent a lot of time
      rationalizing the AIs.  It's not a sensible option to
      manually edit the PRD2 schemas.  PB is confident that FX
      will be able to generate most of what's required.

      AGREED to revise the schema generation workflow arrived at
      in Montréal as follows: PB generates PRD3 schemas; NDR
      editors review for NDR compliance.  If further work needs to
      be done, then we will have MG and BR do separate updates and
      use ASN.1 (PT) to do the Q/A diff.

   Subcommittee report: TSC

      AS: Has not been meeting for the last few weeks; will meet
      this week.

   Review of Montréal meeting minutes

      No comments.

PRD3 status and planning

   TM: PB is finishing the spreadsheet edits; TM will review, then
   PB will create schemas Wednesday morning in Denmark.

   ACTION: TM to make sure someone close to the process reports in
   the Atlantic call.

   TM: The qDT spreadsheet is being updated to add the new
   transportation equipment type code.

   GKH: The genericode files have to be updated to corresp to qDT.
   Question: are we supposed to leave listURI blank?

   AGREED to populate the listURI value of each code list in qDT
   to point to the future home in the final (Standard) package of
   the gc file corresponding to that list.

   ACTION: GKH to ensure that those values (the absolute URLs of
   the files themselves) are used in the gc files and reflected in
   defaultCodeList.xsl.

   ACTION: JB to request the canonical final UBL 2.0 URL from
   OASIS and publish it to the list.

   GKH: Note that Issue 28 should reflect a change to
   defaultCodeList.xsl; that has to be updated after the new
   schemas have been generated.

   AGREED that we will switch the document format to Docbook
   during the 15 days that PRD3 is undergoing public review.

   ACTION: GKH to convert the draft presented to the TC for
   balloting next week to Docbook (so we will freeze all changes
   to the prose for the week while he is working on the
   conversion).

   JB: The PRD3 change log must also be finished next week so that
   we can submit PRD3 for public review.

   TM: Deadline for example docs?

   JB: 25 September.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC