Reminder - UCM (Unified Context Methodology Projkect)]

["David RR Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

This just came up on todays' CPPA call - so I'm forwarding this
along.

 

I see a happy synergy here - in that CEFACT team are defining the business functional and conceptual needs - that then within OASIS we can develop formal XML mechanisms to support that - and enhance out the ones we already have.

 

Of course please feel free to contact Jim Wilson or Mary-Kay (emails below) if you are interested in participating yourself.

 

Thanks, DW

> -------- Original Message
> --------
> Subject: RE: [UNCEFACT-TMG - 2] Call for Participation -
> UCM (Unified
> Context Methodology Projkect)
> From: "David RR Webber
> (XML)" <david@drrw.info>
> Date: Tue, May 09, 2006 11:22
> am
> To: UN/CEFACT Techniques and Methodologies
> Group
> <UNCEFACT-TMG@LISTS.UNECE.ORG>
> Cc: "Stuhec,Gunther"
> <gunther.stuhec@SAP.COM>, mblantz@sbcglobal.net,
> jim.wilson@kcx.com, jzhou@xtensible.net
>
> Gunther,
>
> This
> is very excellent news indeed!
>
> I have long championed the need
> for this inside OASIS - however this has
> largely fallen on fallow
> ground because - unlike the CEFACT CCTS work -
> there is no basis and
> understanding of why role and context are so
> indespensible tools in
> defining consistent ebusiness interaction
> systems!
>
> The
> closest that OASIS has come to this is defining a
> variable
> definition system in BPSS v2.0.3 so now context variables
> can be set. 
> Of course the CAM TC work fully supports use of common
> context - and
> indeed we have both a draft set of criteria and
> factors that are
> associated with common context management and also
> a draft XSD schema
> for a layout in XML to be
> used.
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/7254/Context%20Mechanism%20Synopsis%20and%20Proposal%20-%20draft.doc
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/7253/ebContext-v1-draft.xsd
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/7252/OASIS-BPSS-Specifications-Context-Management%20May15.doc
>
> Also
> - OASIS has now formally adopted the BCM V1.0 specification that
> also
> clearly lays out the use of role and context.
>
> Clearly the
> UNCEFACT UCM recognises the same essential needs.
>
> I'd be happy
> to coordinate this with OASIS too - because to be
> successful this
> needs to be something that both the design and
> implementation worlds
> are working off the same script to!
>
> Thanks,
> DW
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:
> [UNCEFACT-TMG - 2] Call for Participation - UCM (Unified
> Context
> Methodology Projkect)
> From: "Stuhec, Gunther"
> <gunther.stuhec@SAP.COM>
> Date: Thu, April 27, 2006 10:41
> am
> To: UNCEFACT-TMG@LISTS.UNECE.ORG
>
> Dear all, 
>
> the TMG
> is pleased to announce the approval of a project to define
> context
> methodology.  Please forward this announcement to all
> groups
> within your area of
> responsibility.
>
>
>
>
>
> Unified Context Methodology
> Project
>
> Context, as a key driver to precisely determine business
> meaning and
> intent of information definition and exchange, requires a
> formal
> structure and methodology.  Although context has been
> identified as a
> key component of the UN/CEFACT standard, a formal
> mechanism for defining
> and using context has not been in place. With
> an increasing maturity of
> a number of standards (CCTS, CCMA, UMM,
> etc.) within UN/CEFACT that all
> have strong needs to define and use
> context, now is the time to form a
> project to tackle this
> problem.
>
> Attached is the approved Project Proposal for the
> development of the
> technical specification for Context Methodology.
>  This project has been
> named Unified Context Methodology, or
> UCM. 
>
> This project is a joint project of TMG (under CCWG), TBG
> (primarily
> TBG14), and ICG.  The project will be led by TMG
> member Joe Zhou,
> jzhou@xtensible.net
> <mailto:jzhou@xtensible.net> , from Xtensible
> Solutions.
>  
>
> Anyone else who would like to participate is asked to
> send the following
> Participation Information to 
>
> Jim Wilson
> at jim.wilson@kcx.com <mailto:jim.wilson@kcx.com>  and
>
> Mary Kay Blantz at  
> mblantz@sbcglobal.net
> <mailto:mblantz@sbcglobal.net>  
>   
>
> by 5-MAY-2006  indicating your desired level of
> participation in this
> project.  
>
> Participation
> Information
>
> UN/CEFACT, OASIS, and ISO TC 154 (and others) are
> committed to
> maintaining open standards.  Accordingly,
> participation in this project
> is open to all interested parties.
>  Participation can be at the member
> or observer level.
>  Observers will be allowed full access to and
> involvement in
> all discussions.  Voting is restricted to members. Your
> email
> should include:
>
>          
> Name
>
>          
> Organization
>
>           Email
> address
>
>           Phone
> number
>
>           Indication of level of
> participation:  active member
> or
> observer
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gunther Stuhec
>
> TMG
> Chair