Re: UBL response to UN/CEFACT

[Jon Bosak <Jon.Bosak@sun.com>]

Hello Ray,

The team appointed by the OASIS UBL TC to negotiate the terms of a
transition from OASIS to UN/CEFACT following the completion of UBL
1.0 wishes to make one very small change (one character!) to the
proposal we submitted for your consideration at the CEFACT Forum
in San Diego.

Paragraph 6 of that proposal currently reads as follows:

| 6. The OASIS UBL subcommittees shall transfer to UN/CEFACT as UBL
|    subcommittees of ATG2 chartered to continue development of
|    UN/CEFACT's document-centric XML syntax for
|    business-to-business electronic commerce.

We would like to change "ATG2" in this passage to "ATG" in order
to provide maximum flexibility in constituting the new
organizational structure, in particular to provide for the
possible creation of an ATG3 for UBL if ATG should decide that
this alternative form of organization best fits its program of
work.  Which form to adopt would, of course, be up to the members
of ATG to decide.

I've appended below the complete text of our proposal with this
change included.

Best regards,

Jon

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Revised Plan for Transfer of UBL to UN/CEFACT

13 March 2003; minor revision 17 May 2003

1. The development of UBL Naming and Design Rules and UBL Library
   Content shall continue in the current OASIS organizational
   structure until completion and OASIS standardization of Version
   1.0 of the following items of work: the UBL Naming and Design
   Rules, the UBL component library, and an initial set of UBL
   document schemas.  Completion of these work items is expected
   in 2Q2003 and OASIS standardization is expected in 3Q2003.  It
   shall be the plan of the the OASIS UBL TC to complete these
   items in time to become ATG items of work at the meeting of the
   UN/CEFACT Forum in September 2003.

2. The UBL TC shall recommend to OASIS the creation of one or more
   short-term mailing lists for the direct input of comments from
   members of UN/CEFACT into the work of the UBL 1.0
   specification.  Interested UN/CEFACT members shall be invited
   to participate informally in UBL TC and technical subcommittee
   meetings.  Input from UN/CEFACT members shall be given
   consideration to the fullest extent possible within the limits
   of UBL's current schedule, scope, and business requirements.

3. Upon completion of the initial set of deliverables and their
   publication as OASIS standards, OASIS shall grant UN/CEFACT an
   unlimited, perpetual, royalty-free license to continue
   development of the standards and to publish works derived from
   those standards as UN/CEFACT specifications.

4. Ownership of the UBL name and logo as applied to version 1.0
   shall remain with OASIS; ownership of the UBL name and logo as
   applied to later versions of the work shall vest in UN/CEFACT.
   OASIS shall continue to distribute UBL 1.0 without charge to
   users but shall discontinue further development of the
   standard.  UN/CEFACT shall publish future versions of UBL
   without charge to users.  If UN/CEFACT fails to publish a
   version of UBL as a UN-sanctioned standard within one year of
   the date on which this agreement takes effect, or if UN/CEFACT
   at any future time transfers development of UBL to some third
   party or terminates its continuing development and maintenance
   of UBL as a freely available standard, then OASIS shall have
   the right to resume further development of UBL using the UBL
   name and logo.

5. UBL shall be formally recognized as UN/CEFACT's preferred
   document-centric XML syntax for business-to-business electronic
   commerce.

6. The OASIS UBL subcommittees shall transfer to UN/CEFACT as UBL
   subcommittees of ATG chartered to continue development of
   UN/CEFACT's document-centric XML syntax for
   business-to-business electronic commerce.

7. This plan shall become effective when approved by UN/CEFACT,
   OASIS, and the OASIS UBL Technical Committee.