Re: [ubl-dev] Expected date for official release of UBL 2.1?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

Thank you for your question, Veronica!

At 2012-12-19 10:51 -0500, Veronica Gomez wrote:
> I would like to know if there is an expected date for the official 
> release of UBL 2.1.

You can track the UBL Technical Committee progress here:

   https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/

> Several messages indicate that development and review of version 2.1 
> was quite advanced, with a second public review ending on September 
> 2011 
> (<https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ubl>https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ubl).
> However, as of December 2012 the latest version of UBL on the list 
> of approved OASIS strandards is still 2.0 
> (<https://www.oasis-open.org/standards>https://www.oasis-open.org/standards).

You posted your question while the most recent TC meeting was being 
held by teleconference.  I have just moments ago posted the minutes 
of this week's calls here:

  https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201212/msg00018.html

Under the agenda item of "time line" you can see that we hope to 
publish UBL 2.1 PRD3 in January 2013 for a 15-day public review 
period for comment.  At this time the schemas for the final UBL 2.1 
will be frozen (unless, of course, the public review reveals a 
catastrophic issue that requires repair).

Organizations wishing to use UBL 2.1 can assess the risk of using the 
January 2013 PRD3 release, understanding the intent (but not the 
guarantee) of the committee that the schemas will not be 
changing.  If they have to change, then we start again with another 
public review, so it is our intent not to change them unless we have to.

The OASIS process has a number of steps with date constraints that 
push out the final "blessing" of the January PRD3 release to be the 
final UBL 2.1 OASIS Standard.  For those interested in this time 
line, the steps are here in gory detail:

   https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process

Provided that no catastrophic issues of the PRD3 schemas are found, 
we anticipate to have OASIS UBL 2.1 standardized by about June or 
July 2013.  But if, indeed, no catastrophic issues are found, then 
any work done with PRD3 will be equivalent to UBL 2.1.  If 
catastrophic issues are found, we have to republish a public review 
draft as PRD4 and start the clock again.

Hence the critical importance of people inside and outside of the 
committee participating in the public review.  That review will be 
announced to this list as well as to official channels.

All of our committee work is publicly available for download.  You 
can see drafts of the work as they progress.  In fact the minutes I 
cite above document the intention of having a "draft of the public 
review draft" published as light reading for technical committee 
insomniacs during the holiday period.  In the new year the committee 
will direct changes and polish in preparation for the Public Review 
Draft for January, with the schemas that are not intended to change 
for UBL 2.1.

I hope this helps understand the situation.  The committee has been 
working very hard on UBL 2.1 to arrive at a specification that meets 
the needs of the many people who have been participating.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

p.s. we are always looking for new participation in the UBL Technical 
Committee, so I invite UBL-Dev readers to consider joining OASIS and 
our Technical Committee to contribute to our work and our final 
products ... already issues have been pushed off to a future UBL 2.2 
and subsequent releases to meet newly identified requirements that 
were too late to include in UBL 2.1 ... if you want to see new things 
in UBL, please consider joining the committee!  If you cannot join 
the committee, please consider using the Public Comment Page in order 
to submit your input to the committee:

   https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=ubl

p.p.s.  I wish all UBL-Dev readers a happy, safe and healthy holiday 
and new year!


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