[ubl-lcsc] Re: UBL & XIP (XML Industrial , Project)

[Bill Meadows <Bill.Meadows@Sun.COM>]

Dear Chin,
  Thank you for the information on your group.  I have not yet had time to 
review your site and content.  I am happy to hear that your group is looking 
at our work.  Our review cycle allows for comments, and is open until April
14th.  We would appreciate any feedback your group has to offer.  I will also
pass along your email to my colleagues, so they can learn of your work.  We
are always interested in hearing of others work, and feedback on ours.   
Thank you for your email.

Regards,
Bill Meadows
Technical Editor
UBL Library Content SC

> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 10:42:27 +0800 (SGT)
> From: Chin Chee-Kai <cheekai@SoftML.Net>
> To: Bill Meadows <bill.meadows@sun.com>
> Subject: UBL & XIP (XML Industrial , Project)
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> 
> Dear Mr Meadows,
> 
> I came across your contact while browsing the UBL page
> on OASIS.  As part of my work in XML Working Group in
> the IT Standards Committee (http://www.itsc.org.sg/)
> in Singapore, I was looking around in the net for 
> (international) efforts similar to the XML Industrial
> Project (XIP) that we launched locally in Singapore
> last year.  That's how I found the UBL page.
> 
> Some 17 months ago in late 2001, the XML-WG in Singapore
> got together and decided that some form of concrete, 
> publicly available common XML format for business interchange
> was becoming necessary.  The WG followed a SMS design
> principle, Simple (in design), Measurable (the result
> should contribute positively to businesses in a measurable
> way instead of just another creation), and Short (the
> design and implementation time should be reasonably
> short, which indirectly translates to lower development
> costs).  The targeted end-users are SME (Small Medium-sized
> Enterprises) who are modeled as tech-unsophisticated users
> sensitive to costs.
> 
> The result was a set of 8 documents as follows:
> 	RFQ - Request For Quotation
> 	QTN - Quotation
> 	POR - Purchase Order
> 	POA - Purchase Order Acknowledgement
> 	DOR - Delivery Order
> 	ROD - Receipt Of Delivery
> 	INV - Invoice
> 	ROP - Receipt Of Payment
> 
> The choice of these documents was such that a simple
> yet complete loop for business buying and selling can
> take place even without further extension.
> 
> The resulting specs, together with 2 working software
> that were tested for interchange of documents were
> released on the net.  The URL is:
> 
> http://www.itsc.org.sg/downloads/xip/xip_index.html
> 
> 
> Thanks for bearing with my note so far.  As you might have
> noticed, some of the 8 document types may serve similar
> business functions as some of the 7 documents mentioned in
> UBL.  Yet some of the terminology and usages remain different.
> 
> As me and my colleagues at XML-WG move on to review our work 
> in XIP, I'm excited that there is an international effort
> and framework going on at OASIS with UBL.  As there are 
> already similarities in design, effort and goals, I'm keen 
> to explore further possibilities of somehow incorporating,
> merging in, extending to, or becoming an extension of  UBL
> or even other plausible combinations.
> 
> I hope you might be amenable to further of such exchange
> of notes, experience and comments as UBL is being pushed
> towards a final recommnedation of OASIS.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Chin Chee-Kai
> SoftML
> 
> 
>