Rules approved 5/1

["CRAWFORD, Mark" <MCRAWFORD@lmi.org>]

Dear All:
 
UBL NDR approved the following final rules today:
 
[R 1]        Element and Simple and Complex Type Names must not use acronyms, abbreviations, or other word truncations, except those in the list of exceptions published in Section XX.  [ed note - section xx to be a section in the NDR document.  Currently this section only include ID for Identifier, DUNS, and URI.  We]

[R 2]        Acronyms and abbreviations will only be added to the approved list after careful consideration for maximum understanding and reuse.

[R 3]        Acronyms and abbreviations must only be taken from the latest version of the Pocket Oxford English Dictionary.  The first occurence listed for a word will be the preferred item to be used.

[R 4]        The Abbreviations and Acronyms listed in Section XX must always be used.

 

We agreed that the supporting text in the NDR document will include a strong caution against developing more than a handful of approved acronyms and abbreviations (numbers being bantied about were in the 3 to 5 additional abbreviations range).  

 

The following final rules were also adopted:

[R5] All Type declarations MUST be global

[R6] All element declarations MUST be global with the exception of ID and Code which MUST be local.