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Subject: Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 4 June 2014 00:00UTC


MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC TELECONFERENCE WEDNESDAY 4 June 2014 00:00UTC

ATTENDANCE

  G. Ken Holman (convener)
  Tim McGrath
  Andy Schoka


STANDING ITEMS

  Additions to events calendar: http://ubl.xml.org/events
    - no events to add at this time

  Review of Atlantic call minutes
    https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201406/msg00000.html

  Review of Pacific call minutes
    https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201405/msg00022.html

  Membership status review
    https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process#membership
    https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/membership.php?wg_abbrev=ubl
    https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ubl/members/roster.php?num_items=80

    - voting status is determined by the following:
      - existing voting members must not miss two consecutive meetings to
        maintain voting status
      - non-voting members must attend two consecutive meetings to obtain
        voting status
    - committee officers (alphabetical):
      - Jon Bosak (secretary)
      - G. Ken Holman (co-chair)
      - Tim McGrath (co-chair)
    - current voting member list (alphabetical):
      - Oriol Bausa
      - Kenneth Bengtsson
      - Peter Borresen
      - Kees Duvekot
      - G. Ken Holman
      - Ole Madsen
      - Tim McGrath
      - Andy Schoka
    - what can we do to recruit more volunteers to the TC to share
      in the work?

  JIRA tickets
   https://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10170
   - no action needed

  Web site maintenance (committee web site or UBL.xml.org)
   - new FAQ from Tim: http://ubl.xml.org/wiki/ubl-faq
   - the old FAQ still needs to be removed and redirected:
     https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/faq.php
   - Ken will announce to TC and UBL-Dev when old FAQ removed


European Directive on Electronic Invoicing

 - Tim has drafted a committee position congratulating the European Commission
   on their work
 - the following wording is the result of some edits from Jon, Tim and Andy
 - AGREED (pending Atlantic call) - The committee agrees to the following
   position statement regarding the European Directive on Electronic Invoicing
   in Public Procurement:

The UBL TC would like to congratulate the European Union on their recent Directive on electronic invoicing in public procurement[1]. We believe this marks a significant step forward in rationalizing the various solutions currently being used for electronic invoicing.

Tasking a standardization activity to develop a common European standard for the semantic data model of the core elements of an electronic invoice (the "European standard on electronic invoicing") supports the data model approach to designing business documents that UBL has taken since its inception.

The Directive also requires "... a list with a limited number of syntaxes which comply with the European standard on electronic invoicing. That list should not form part of the European standard on electronic invoicing. The identified syntaxes must already be widely and successfully used by economic operators and contracting authorities."

Therefore, it would appear likely that the work of the CEN BII Workshop will be a key foundation on which to develop the European standard for electronic invoicing and that OASIS UBL will be one of the syntaxes identified.

The combination of BII semantics and UBL syntax has been successful in many government electronic invoicing programmes such as OIOUBL (Denmark), EHF (Norway), Svefaktura (Sweden), eFatura (Turkey), PEPPOL (Pan-European), NHS Procurement (UK) and the European Commission's own e-PRIOR platform as well as private sector initiatives such eBiz-TCF, Tradeshift and SimplerInvoicing. We see the new Directive as accelerating the momentum around these programmes on the expectation that whatever the eventual European standard contains, it will support the BII community and be mapped to the UBL Invoice schema.

The strategy of the public sector formalizing common invoicing information elements as a standard and then complementing this with recognized formats fits well into a technology neutral, market-driven approach to interoperability. This approach provides a long term solution that should enable development of a range of commercially viable solutions that have market adoption and achieve the critical mass of usage that realize the significant benefits identified in using electronic invoices.

Inevitably this public sector policy will spill out into the private sector as well. Many of the suppliers to the public sector are established eBusiness organizations, typically using electronic invoice Service Providers. This means that the EESPA (European E-Invoicing Service Providers Association) Model Interoperability Agreement [2] (also based on BII and UBL) will become an important complement to the Directive, ensuring that the private sector requirements for electronic invoices are supported as well.

While this Directive is a European public policy it also has significance beyond Europe. Governments in other regions are also considering their policies in this area and, recognizing that many pubic sector suppliers are global organizations, will hopefully take into consideration the strategy taken by the EU.

[1]http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L:2014:133:FULL&from=EN
[2] http://www.eespa.eu/content/interoperability


UBL TC next steps

  - what promotional issues need to be addressed?
  - UBL 2 is an organic thing that can be grown

  - what do we do for implementation support?
  - should we write a companion document of how to use the specification?
  - industry-specific documentation?
  - make it easier to find what is relevant without changing the actual
    specification

  - how about another UBL International conference in order to
    promote the release of UBL 2.1?  Can anyone host this conference?
      http://ublconference.com or http://ublconference.org
      - perhaps an event in North America and in Europe in 2014
        - Washington DC, Burlington MA (OASIS)?
        - http://www.exchange-summit.com/ - Barcelona - October 2014
        - BII - Paris in June?  Frankfurt in September?
        - Beijing June 2014 (JTC 1 SC32)?

  - how about a Twitter feed of UBL adoption and announcements?

  - what subject matter issues need to be addressed?
    - more transportation co-ordination issues
    - communications with transportation regulatory organizations

  - what technical issues need to be addressed?
    - are any schema changes needed?

  - what educational materials need to be made available?
    - how about YouTube videos regarding access to the UBL package?


TC CONCALL SCHEDULE

 Next meetings:

   2014-06-11 No meetings this week
   2014-06-18 No meetings this week
   2014-06-25 No meetings this week
   2014-07-02 Pacific 00:00UTC/20:00EDT, Atlantic 14:00UTC/16:00CEST/10:00EDT

 Will anyone be requesting a leave of absence in the near future?  For
 privacy reasons, this discussion will be kept off of the minutes.

 TC calendar:
 http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/calendar.php?wg_abbrev=ubl

 TC calendar iCal subscription link:
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