UBL 2.0 public review

[jon.bosak@sun.com]

Hello ubl-dev,

I'm pleased to inform you that UBL 2.0 has now entered its first
public review.  The 60-day review period runs from 20 January 2006
to 21 March 2006.

As stated in the official announcement (see below), we welcome
your input.  Before hitting the "send" button, however, please
note the following.

 - This is a *first* public review.  There will be at least one
   other public review, starting probably in June following a May
   2006 UBL TC meeting in Brussels to dispose of comments received
   during the intial review period.

 - To be considered by the UBL TC, comments MUST be logged through
   the comment form on the OASIS UBL TC web page (see the
   announcement).  Due to the large amount of spam received
   through this form, however, it's probably a good idea to copy
   your comments to the UBL chair (jon.bosak@sun.com) and vice
   chair (tmcgrath@portcomm.com.au) to ensure that they aren't
   lost in the noise.  Feel free to discuss the public review
   draft on the list, but understand that we cannot consider
   comments unless they are submitted through the comment form.

 - Given the sizable expansion of material in this version (29
   document types versus 8 in UBL 1.0), we are expecting to
   receive a lot of comments.  To help us get through comment
   disposition in April and May, please read the release notes in
   the index.html file included in the package and check the
   current issues list to make sure you're not duplicating an
   issue that's already been identified.  The issues list is
   located at

      http://www.eccnet.com/UniversalBusinessLanguage/IssuesList.xml

   (To see this, you will need a browser that supports XSL
   stylesheets, for example Firefox 1.5.)

 - The PDF file included in the review package as index.pdf is
   provided to satisfy a procedural requirement of the current
   OASIS TC process.  It has no other function and should be
   ignored.  Please don't send comments relating to the PDF file.

 - The UBL 1.0 Standard included a lot of supporting material for
   implementers.  To aid in scheduling, the support material for
   UBL 2.0 will be published in a separate Support Package that
   will appear around the time that UBL 2.0 is ratified as an
   OASIS Standard.  The Support Package will include (among other
   things) an explanation of the code list stategy adopted for UBL
   2.0.  For a preview of that strategy, see

      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-dev/200512/msg00034.html

 - This should be obvious from the foregoing, but in case it's
   not, you should understand that the specification in its
   present form is subject to considerable revision and is not
   intended to be implemented for anything but testing purposes.
   We strongly recommend against deploying the specification as it
   currently stands in production environments.

 - Members of the UBL TC are meeting next week (23-27 January
   2006) in Manhattan and will be engaged largely in beginning
   preparation of the Support Package.  Since some members will be
   traveling during the week following the meeting, response to
   email over the next two weeks may be slow in coming.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:30:22 -0500
From: Mary McRae <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>
Subject: [members] Public Review of UBL v2.0
To: members@lists.oasis-open.org, tc-announce@lists.oasis-open.org

To:  OASIS members, public announce lists

The OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) TC has approved the
following specification document as a Committee Draft and approved
the package for a 60-day public review:

    Universal Business Language v2.0

The public review starts today, 20 January 2006, and ends 21 March
2006. This is an open invitation to comment.

Public review from potential users, developers and stakeholders is
an important part of the OASIS process to assure interoperability
and quality. Comments are solicited from all interested
parties. Please feel free to distribute this announcement within
your organization and to other appropriate mail lists.

More non-normative information about the specification and the
technical committee may be found at the public home page of the TC
at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl. Comments may be
submitted to the TC by any person, by a web-form that can be
reached either on that page, via the button marked "Send A
Comment" at the top of that page, or directly at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=ubl

Submitted comments (for this work as well as other works of that
TC) are publicly archived and can be viewed at
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-comment/. All comments
submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, to
assure that the comment may be freely re-used by the TC; the
license terms can be found on the comment web-form.

The specification document and related files are available here:

   html: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/prd-UBL-2.0/index.html
   zip archive: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/prd-UBL-2.0.zip

A pdf file is included in the zip archive, however, since this
committee draft is created in XHTML, the TC asks that you refer to
the html version for review purposes.

OASIS and the UBL Technical Committee welcome your comments.

Mary P McRae
Manager of TC Administration, OASIS
email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org  
OASIS Symposium: The Meaning of Interoperability, 9-12 May, San Francisco http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium_2006/