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Subject: Re: [ubl-dev] UBL for storing accounting data
I have made some comments inline below... Martin Kleppmann wrote: > Thanks for your responses! > > I did look at XBRL, but I had difficulty recognising anything in it > which would be relevant to me. A lot of it seems to apply to publicly > listed companies with regulatory reporting requirements. That is a > world very different from my own; I consider a company with 10 people > and $1m turnover to be big! > you are correct XBRL is a financial reporting language - in that sense, it complements UBL which is a business transaction language. to trivialize this, you use UBL in your daily trading and XBRL for your accounting, tax, securities and government reporting. > What I am trying to do is really quite lightweight, and I don't want > to introduce any more complexity than absolutely necessary. In many > ways I even find UBL too heavyweight and complex, but I appreciate the > amount of thought which has gone into it, and by trimming it to a > subset I think we could make it quite suitable for small businesses. > as Ken said, UBL has been down this path with our Small Business Subset - you may also find useful subsets (known as Profiles) in the Northern European Subset project (http://www.nesubl.eu/), which is now evolving into a Europe-wide project. They also have a remit for small business users. so you dont need to start from a blank page! > Some more thoughts/questions/comments: > > * What is the patent situation of UBL? There is some legalese on > RAND/RF modes on > http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php -- which mode > applies to UBL? It goes without saying that even the remote > possibility of licensing fees would be a showstopper for a free and > open source implementation. > we have chosen the Royalty Free on Limited Terms licensing which means there is no license fee for using UBL (and never will be) . The full statement is in every UBL schema. > * I think the UBL documentation could do with being more extensive, > and in particular more transparent. Ken, the files you provide are a > useful reference; I think potential UBL adopters would find it a lot > easier though if there were a few examples and a bit more explanation > for each element. I may look if I can set up something a bit like a > Wiki at some point. > have you seen http://UBl.xml.org? please feel free to build something there ;-) > * If I join OASIS, where do my membership fees go? I'm not used to > paying for the privilege of sitting on a committee, so I'd at least > like to know that the money is going into something useful :-) > It is an administration fee for providing the legal entity that is OASIS and its management and infrastructure. No-one gets paid for working on UBL (believe me). It is a situation where you pay to volunteer your effort. Welcome to the world of standards-making. > Thanks again for your help. I'll start writing up a few ideas, and pop > back here from time to time if I have questions about the meaning of > certain UBL constructs, if you don't mind. > > Martin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: ubl-dev-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: ubl-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org >
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