Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 13|14 December 2010

[Jon Bosak <bosak@pinax.com>]

MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING
TUESDAY 14 DECEMBER 2010

ATTENDANCE

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

     Tim is back home for a while!

STANDING ITEMS

     Additions to the calendar:
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        None.

     Review of Atlantic call minutes

        No comments.

UBL 2.1 STATUS

     TSC (AS): Met this morning and reviewed the Goods Item
     Inventory and Transport Service Description.  Very positive
     discussion about modeling, some questions still on the table;
     TM will review for fit in library and get back to AS and
     Audun.  We also discussed issues raised by Audun regarding
     material in PRD1; we will resolve over the next few weeks in
     email.  There are also comments from Roberto to resolve.
     Aiming to have input for PRD2 by end of January.

     PSC (TM): Attended the 23 November F2F in Copenhagen.  It was a
     very good meeting, and well attended; there were about 15
     people at one point.  The PSC has taken a first pass through
     all PRD1 issues.  A couple are remaining, items that started as
     issues but are becoming new developments: enveloping and
     acknowledgment, i.e., info about the delivery and routing of
     documents.  There's been discussion about an enveloping
     message, specifically as a wrapper to go around any document.
     And regarding acknowledgments, we currently have Application
     Response, but there is discussion about whether this can be
     used for routing as well as business context.  Work teams have
     been set up for these items.  The PSC is also looking at the
     rationalization of the Party Legal Entity ABIE, which needs to
     be expanded.  And there are some smaller issues.  In terms of
     the schedule, probably about the same as the TSC.

     Security SC (GKH): Note that no one has yet commented on the
     security changes.

UN/CEFACT

     TM: Following the UN/CEFACT Plenary last week, CEFACT has a new
     organizational structure:

     http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink?func=ll&objId=10234684&objAction=Open&nexturl=%2Flivelink%2Flivelink%3Ffunc%3Dll%26objId%3D10235123%26objAction%3Dbrowse%26viewType%3D1

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     This is the outcome of a year of organizational
     self-examination in CEFACT regarding future direction.  It
     represents a move back toward the origins of the group as a
     standards body owned by governments.  It will continue to
     produce all levels of the stack as needed -- CC library,
     document models, schemas -- but not in a way that excludes
     other solutions at each level.  The focus moves to conformance,
     which can be claimed at any of these levels.  The creation of
     conformance specifications will become a major work item.

     Organizationally, the former permanent working groups disappear
     into a project-oriented framework.  Project teams not unlike
     the former TBGs will exist, but only on an ad hoc basis, to be
     dissolved when their particular project is completed (slide
     11).  The project teams are created by permanent programme
     development areas (slide 13) headed by vice presidents of the
     CEFACT Bureau; there are going to be four or five of these
     PDAs, probably the ones listed by way of example in slide
     28. In keeping with the thought that CEFACT is supported by
     governments, each programme development area will be
     responsible for sponsoring projects and sourcing its project
     teams. Resources will be drawn a roster of volunteer experts
     (slide 18) nominated by country HoDs and domain experts and
     expert advisers (slide 25) assumed to be funded by their
     sponsor governments (a commitment from three countries is
     required for a project).

     Existing projects will be mapped to the new structure.  Slide
     29 shows a set of projects being run by domain expert advisers
     under the shipping/transportation programme development area and
     a possible mapping of TBG 3, TBG 4, and TBG 15 to this PDA.

     The new CEFACT organization presents UBL with opportunities to
     engage more effectively with CEFACT working groups in a
     structure that allows UBL (and other groups developing business
     standards) to progress toward alignment through conformance at
     different levels of the stack.

     AGREED to discuss this further when Pacific calls resume in
     January.

TC CONCALL SCHEDULE

     Week of 2010.12.13 Regular schedule
     Week of 2010.12.20 >>> NO MEETINGS <<<
     Week of 2010.12.27 >>> NO MEETINGS <<<
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Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC

Cefact_WayForward.pdf