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Subject: UBL specification submitted for OASIS Standard
OASIS members: The OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) TC has submitted the Universal Business Language (UBL) v1.0 specification, which is an approved Committee Draft, for review and consideration for approval by OASIS members to become an OASIS Standard. The TC's submission is attached below. In accordance with the OASIS Technical Committee Process, the specification has already gone through a 30 day public review period. OASIS members now have until the 15th of the month to familiarize themselves with the submission. OASIS members should give their input on this question to the voting representative of their organization. By the 16th of the month I will send out a Call For Vote to the voting representatives of the OASIS member organizations, who will have until the end of the month to cast their ballots on whether this Committee Draft should be approved as an OASIS Standard. The normative TC Process for approval of Committee Drafts as OASIS Standards is found at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#standard Any statements related to the IPR of this specification are posted at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/ipr.php -Karl ================================================================= Karl F. Best Vice President, OASIS office +1 978.667.5115 x206 mobile +1 978.761.1648 karl.best@oasis-open.org http://www.oasis-open.org 1. A formal specification that is a valid member of its type, together with appropriate documentation for the specification, both of which must be written using approved OASIS templates; The UBL v1.0 Committee Draft is located at http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cd-UBL-1.0/ and as a downloadable zip file at http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cd-UBL-1.0.zip See Sections 1 through 6 of the UBL 1.0 Committee Draft, in particular, the XSD schemas in Section 6. Documentation is provided in the UBL 1.0 release package by a description of the normative parts of the specification and their method of development plus a number of informative appendices containing a large quantity of supporting materials for the developer. Three major informative documents are also included: the naming and design rules used in producing the UBL schemas, a methodology for customizing the schemas, and a set of guidelines for the development and maintenance of the code lists used in the release. These documentary components of the UBL 1.0 package are expected to find use in schema definition efforts similar to UBL. 2. A clear English-language summary of the specification; See Section 1 of the UBL 1.0 release package. 3. A statement regarding the relationship of this specification to similar work of other OASIS TCs or other standards developing organizations; As a standard, royalty-free set of XML schemas for common business documents, UBL provides an alternative to a number of proprietary or industry-specific business vocabularies. During the UBL 1.0 development period, the OASIS UBL TC enjoyed formal liaison relationships with the following organizations: ACORD (insurance) ARTS (retail) ebXML Asia Committee e.centre (EAN UK) EIDX (electronics) HL7 (health care) NACS (convenience stores) RosettaNet SWIFT (banking) UIG (utilities) VCA (eye care) UN/EDIFACT Working Group ASC X12 XBRL OASIS eGov TC OASIS CIQ TC UBL is also on the continuing agenda of the ISO IEC ITU UN/ECE eBusiness Memorandum of Understanding Management Group, which coordinates ebusiness standards activities among the standards bodies referenced by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). 4. Certification by at least three OASIS member organizations that they are successfully using the specification consistently with the OASIS IPR Policy; The following OASIS member organizations have certified to the TC that they are successfully using UBL: Sun Microsystems http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00037.html Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00038.html OSS Nokalva http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00039.html Denmark Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00041.html Center for Document Engineering, University of California at Berkeley http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00040.html University of Hong Kong http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00048.html Korea CALS/EC Association http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00059.html 5. An account of each of the comments/issues raised during the public review period, along with its resolution; Comments submitted regarding the UBL CD review of May 2004, together with their disposition by the TC, can be found in the UBL 1.0 Issues List, the latest version of which is located at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00035.html It should be noted that UBL went through several other review cycles before the official May 2004 CD public review period: UBL 0.6 Mar/Apr 2002 Sanity check (UBL Liaisons only) UBL 0.7 Jan/Feb 2003 Two-month public review of entire package UBL 0.8 Jun/Jul 2003 Limited review (data model only) UBL 1.0 Beta Nov/Dec 2004 Two-month public review of entire package Comments received during these earlier review cycles can be found at various places in the UBL TC and subcommittee archives. 6. An account of and results of the voting to approve the approve the specification as a Committee Draft; Results of the CD ballot can be found at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=545& 7. An account of or pointer to votes and comments received in any earlier attempts to standardize substantially the same specification, together with the originating TC's response to each comment; UBL has not previously been submitted for OASIS standardization. 8. A pointer to the publicly visible comments archive for the originating TC; The UBL comment archive is located at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-comment/ The UBL TC's email list archive is located at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/ 9. A statement from the chair of the TC certifying that all members of the TC have been provided with a copy of the OASIS IPR Policy; Members of the TC were formally notified by email in the message archived at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200407/msg00058.html 10. Optionally, a pointer to any minority reports submitted by one or more TC members who did not vote in favor of approving the Committee Draft, or certification by the chair that no minority reports exist. No minority reports were submitted. Submitted by the OASIS UBL TC chair, Jon Bosak jon.bosak@sun.com
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