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Subject: Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 5|6 February 2007
MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING 00:30 - 02:30 UTC TUESDAY 6 FEBRUARY 2007 ATTENDANCE Jon Bosak (chair) G. Ken Holman Tim McGrath (vice chair) Andy Schoka STANDING ITEMS Additions to the calendar: http://ibiblio.org/bosak/ubl/calendar.htm AS: Note UN/CEFACT FMG F2F this week. Liaison reports (Tax XML TC, UN/CEFACT, X12) None. Subcommittee report: PSC TM: ML out sick. Subcommittee report: TSC TM: No meeting last week; Kama trying to schedule for this week. Received Bill of Lading example from Roberto. Need to nail down the BITS schedule. Review of Atlantic call No comments. SUPPORT PAGE ACTION: JB to put SG's sourceforge project on list of proposed additions for next week. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-dev/200701/msg00054.html [Actually, we are waiting for a submission from SG. Mail has been sent.] JB: Should UBL 1.0 support materials be put on ubl-ssc? GKH: Just legacy now; will cause confusion. JB: But I want users to be aware of what we did for 1.0 as an indication of what we'll be providing for 2.0. AGREED to set up a UBL 1.0 legacy support page on JB's site at ibiblio (pending a better suggestion from OASIS) and point to that from ubl-ssc with a disclaimer that this is legacy material. A discussion ensued over whether we want to distinguish "free" products and services from "commercial" products and services. JB/AS: Really like the distinction. TM/GKH: But we can't think of an unambiguous way to express it; all the "free" products have some connection with commercial products or services. AGREED for the time being to put all the products and services in a single category to be called "UBL 2 resources from third parties." AGREED to review this policy at the May F2F in Manhattan. AGREED to consider a category for consultants (as such, independent of resources) at the Manhattan F2F and maintain a moratorium on such listings till then. With these understandings in mind, the following dispositions of materials received last week were agreed upon (pending review in this week's Atlantic call): 1. "Practical Universal Business Language Deployment" book http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/links/books-ublo.htm Practical Universal Business Language Deployment overviews the artefacts published in the Universal Business Language 2.0 specification, with details on schemes for deploying and utilizing the artefacts to effect stated objectives. This book is an electronic publication offering perpetual no-charge updates as the content evolves based on deployment and community experiences. DISPOSITION: Include on ubl-ssc under Third-party Resources. 2. "Practical Universal Business Language Deployment" instructor-led hands-on training http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/links/sched-ublo.htm This is a one-, two- or three-day configuration of instructor-led hands-on training in the deployment and use of the Universal Business Language 2.0 artefacts. It is derived from the book of the same title and includes exercises that are not part of the publication. DISPOSITION: Include on ubl-ssc under Third-party Resources. 3. OSS UBL API http://www.oss.com/products/ubl_main_asn1.html The OSS UBL API is an implementation of the OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL), and can be used in conjunction with the OSS XSD/C Tools or the OSS ASN.1/C Tools. The API parses, serializes, creates, modifies, copies, and displays UBL documents in binary or XML format. The UBL documents are internally represented as C structures. The UBL Procurement process is fully supported (concrete API functions are provided for business transactions). UBL subsets are also supported, including UBL-SBS. A library and a set of samples using that library are available. Both static and dynamic versions of the UBL API libraries are supported on UNIX and Windows. DISPOSITION: The current offering should be categorized as UBL 1.0 legacy. We expect to see another submission when the UBL 2.0 version becomes available. 4. Contivo Builder http://www.contivo.com/home/xml-standards.html Contivo Builder is a schema vocabulary development tool that simplifies understanding and leveraging XML Schema vocabularies. The vocabulary approach enables developers to access the entire collection of schemas in UBL 2.0, readily reuse the component definitions in new schemas and capture the relationships between UBL and other schemas. Based on the Eclipse IDE, Builder is available at no charge. A vocabulary encompassing the entire UBL 2.0 schemas set is available for free download. DISPOSITION: Include on ubl-ssc under Third-party Resources. 5. UN/ECE Electronic Commerce Agreement http://www.unece.org/cefact/recommendations/rec31/rec31_ecetrd257e.pdf DISPOSITION: Include under Related Initiatives; JB to write a description based on language in the introduction and include some kind of IANAL disclaimer. ENGAGING U.S. GOVERNMENT USERS AS: Spent some time reading the ET.gov site and think that this is a real opportunity to engage U.S. government users. We need better insight into what it means to be at Stage 2 and how to get this in front of interested agencies. Will discuss with USDOT. ACTION ITEM REVIEW ACTION: JB to check with SW regarding X12 representation. Pending. (And add KS to the inquiry.) ACTION: JB to find appropriate "AS IS" "no endorsement" "no guarantee" "no support" boilerplate. Done (see ubl-ssc). ACTION: JB to add language to ubl-ssc noting that the materials linked from there are merely resources and that the TC is not available to help with deployment. OTHER BUSINESS TM: Note that Fremantle is not in the same time zone as Singapore this year. TM: Need to restart the customization work by reminding (informing?) MG and MC that they own the document in progress. JB: Will put on agendas for next week. Jon Bosak Chair, OASIS UBL TC
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