Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 2011.01.31|02.01

[Jon Bosak <bosak@pinax.com>]

MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING
TUESDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2011

ATTENDANCE

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

STANDING ITEMS

    Additions to the calendar:
       http://ubl.xml.org/events

       None.

    Review of Atlantic call minutes

       No comments.

UBL 2.1 STATUS

    Security (JB): Materials received; it will take some time to
    process the documentation.

    TSC (AS): We have received materials from Audun documenting the
    two new intermodal freight management doctypes along with
    updates to the doctypes in PRD1.  It's been proposed that the
    name of one of the PRD1 documents, TransportOperationStatus, be
    changed to TransportProgressStatus.

    GKH: Schemas ready this week like PSC?

    AS: Not likely.

    JB: Despite what was recorded in the minutes, my impression is
    that PSC was estimating that the models would be ready for
    schema generation -- not necessarily that we would have schemas
    by this week.

    GKH: Note that I am in the critical path for schema processing
    and that I will be on leave of absence starting 23 February
    through the end of March.

    JB: We hope that the PRD2 schemas can be generated in time for
    GKH to process them before leaving.

MESSAGE ENVELOPE

    GKH has volunteered to co-chair the task group, but he wants a
    co-chair to handle business requirements.

       ACTION: JB to seek a co-chair.

TAG STATEMENT OF USE

    Consideration of a request from the OASIS TAG TC for UBL to
    issue a statement of use for the Test Assertion Markup Language
    and the Test Assertions Model for UBL calculation model test
    assertions.

    TM: This is a request from the Test Assertions Guidelines (TAG)
    TC.  Recall that Stephen Green has prepared examples of a UBL
    calculation model using the Test Assertions Markup Language
    (TAML).  The TAG TC have just finalized their specifications;
    they already have the required three implementation
    verifications but are seeking further proofs of concept.  We
    are being asked whether TAML is appropriate for business use.
    Our position is that you can indeed use TAML for this, though
    we are assuming that the work belongs to customizations.

       AGREED (pending agreement in the Atlantic call) that the UBL
       TC finds that TAML is a suitable language for implementers
       of UBL to use in expressing business constraints.

TC CONCALL SCHEDULE

    Week of 2011.02.07 Regular schedule
    Week of 2011.02.14 Regular schedule
    Week of 2011.02.21 Regular schedule
    Week of 2011.02.28 Regular schedule

OTHER BUSINESS

    GKH: An updated UN Layout Key generator has been uploaded to
    ubl.xml.org.  A number of formatting options have been added,
    and the UBL XML source can now be embedded in the PDF.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC