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Subject: Minutes of the Manhattan UBL TC meeting, 2008.01.28-02.01
MINUTES OF THE MANHATTAN UBL TC MEETING,
28 JANUARY - 1 FEBRUARY 2008
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MONDAY 28 JANUARY 2008: OPENING PLENARY
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Attendance
In person:
Jon Bosak (chair)
Mavis Cournane
Mike Grimley
G. Ken Holman
Kim, SungHyuk
Ole Madsen
Andy Schoka
Mike Onder
By phone:
Tim McGrath (vice chair)
Report from the chair (Bosak)
The window for 2.1 input is between April 2008 in Bologna and
August 2008 in Montréal.
AGREED that we should aim to have a 2.1 version of the
Customization Guidelines ready for release with UBL 2.1. We
assume that there won't be a lot of new requirements, just
possible refinement.
AGREED that we will finish up work on the UBL 2.0 NDR in
Atlantic TC calls. First session: 20 February, to include JB,
MC, MG, GKH, plus BH if available.
The UBL localization subcommittees will have work to do after
the changes have been made for the Update Package; the wording
of some of the definitions has changed.
DKLSC report (Madsen)
See
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27190
The next OIOUBL version will be based on UBL 2.1. The client
shown in the report is available in both Java and C# versions;
a translation of the client UI into Italian is underway.
ACTION: OM to send a list of the online input/output facilities
for the Support Page.
UN/CEFACT Liaison report (McGrath)
See
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27189
Federal Community of Practice (Onder)
The U.S. Department of Transportation has approved a six-month
exploration of the possibility that DOT could lead a Federal
Community of Practice for UBL. Such a CoP would presumably use
GSA-provided collaborative software in place of ubl-dev, which
is currently listed in this role as a placeholder.
MG noted that he is involved in the Universal Core Initiative,
which is defining a cross-agency core data set.
ACTION: MG to discuss this initiative with MO.
GKH: Crane has made a UNLK PDF rendering for UBL Invoice
available in 12 languages; perhaps Transportation Status could
be the next doc type to receive this treatment. A UNLK-like
format and mapping will be needed to accomplish this. DOT is
invited to contribute.
The remaining reports were moved to the Wednesday afternoon
plenary (see below).
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TUESDAY 29 JANUARY 2008
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No plenary sessions Tuesday.
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WEDNESDAY 30 JANUARY 2008: AFTERNOON PLENARY
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Attendance
Jon Bosak (chair)
Mavis Cournane
Mike Grimley
G. Ken Holman
Kim, SungHyuk
Ole Madsen
Andy Schoka
SBSC/HISC report (Holman)
Gruffudd Williams has had to withdraw due to other commitments.
Mark Seaborne of picoforms is working on XForms input; we will
be discussing his participation later in the week. OM is
helping with mappings to UNLK. In sum: SBSC has a manpower
issue, because Gruffud's prototype was to have been used for
SBSC. HISC is still in need of mappings; note that the
formatting specifications produced by HISC are exemplars or
guidelines, not normative.
KRLSC report (Kim)
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27194
ESLSC report
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27191
ITLSC report
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27192
JPLSC report
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27193
TSC report (Schoka)
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27195
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THURSDAY 31 JANUARY 2008: MORNING PLENARY
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Attendance
In person:
Jon Bosak (chair)
Mike Grimley
G. Ken Holman
Kim, SungHyuk
Ole Madsen
Andy Schoka
By phone:
Tim McGrath (vice chair)
Adoption SC
OASIS has suggested the formation of a UBL focus area in the
OASIS domain at ubl.xml.org. This would be implemented as a
wiki; see dita.xml.org for an example. It would support file
sharing, news events, software downloads, etc. The site would
both provide for a more interactive environment for the support
of UBL and a collaborative site through which organizations
implementing UBL could share experience in a more proactive way
than can be accomplished via the existing UBL Support Page. As
with dita.xml.org, the site would be maintained by an editorial
committee. OASIS has suggested that the most logical way to
form the editorial committee would be as an "Adoption
Subcommittee" of the UBL TC.
Advantages of this approach would include:
- Moving the current UBL Support Page to a more interactive
environment
- Differentiating the function of the TC in developing
standards from adoption and implementation activities
- Increasing visibility (these focus areas are promoted at
OASIS symposia)
- Maintaining TC ownership via the Adoption Subcommittee
OASIS requires at least one site sponsor; TM's new company,
Document Engineering Services Ltd., has been accepted as the
first sponsor.
AGREED to the following plan for approval by the TC via letter
ballot:
1. We accept the offer to create the ubl.xml.org site.
2. We accept the suggestion from OASIS to form a UBL Adoption
Subcommittee as the ubl.xml.org editorial board.
3. We request the formation of the new Adoption Subcommittee,
keeping the existing SSC (Support Page) live during the
transition and eventually redirecting from there to the new
ASC.
4. We appoint G. Ken Holman as both head of the editorial board
and chair of the ASC, and we appoint the following UBL TC
members to consitute the editorial board and the membership
of the ASC:
Oriol Bausa
Mikkel Brun
Roberto Cisternino
Tony Coates
Asuman Dogac
Martin Forsberg
Mike Grimley
Tim McGrath
ACTION: JB to send default letter ballot to the TC.
Customization Guidelines
TM: Examples needed and compatibility section needs to be
expanded, e.g., semantic equivalence per SG:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200801/msg00019.html
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200801/msg00021.html
ACTION: TM to draft a paragraph on semantic equivalence that
will go somewhere around section 3.2.1.
ACTION: AS to create a tree diagram.
ACTION: MG to prepare a revised draft of Chapter 1 (the current
sections 1-3) in time for people to review before the next
Pacific call.
Subcommittee participation
ACTION: For TSC: AS to ask Mike Onder for suitable contacts at
Fedex, UPS, DHL, Menlo, etc.; JB to send message regarding the
window of opportunity for inputs to UBL 2.1; MG to continue to
pursue opportunities to find people in DoD/DoN, perhaps arrange
for a presentation from USDOT.
ACTION: For HISC: JB to put out notice regarding HISC openings
to ubl-dev, including layout design and mappings for
transportation and catalogue documents.
SBSC is stalled after reassignment of cochair; AGREED to
suspend SBSC activity for the moment and see how BITS proceeds
on resumption of the PSC in April.
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THURSDAY 31 JANUARY 2008: AFTERNOON PLENARY
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All business scheduled for the afternoon session was completed
during the morning plenary; however, the phone line was opened
at 15:00 EST as scheduled to allow remote participation.
Attending the afternoon session were Jon Bosak (chair), Mike
Grimley, G. Ken Holman, and Andy Schoka. The meeting was
adjourned at 16:01 EST, no one having dialed in and no formal
business except adjournment having been conducted.
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FRIDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2008
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No plenary sessions Friday.
Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC
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