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Subject: [ubl-tsc] Minutes of Transport Subcommittee Teleconference Call 8/9 Feb 2006
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MINUTES OF UBL-TRANSPORT SUBCOMMITTEE 1000 – 1120 (SGT) Thursday Feb 8/9,
2006 Teleconference: PARTICIPANT: Tim McGrath (UBL Vice Chair) Eric Tesoro (CrimsonLogic) Dave Fitzpatrick (BAH) Andy Schoka (Information Systems Engineer) The telecom proceeded along the lines of
reviewing the Action Item list from last telecom. 1. Posting Issues/Managing issues As an action from last telecom, Tim
reported that he had emailed the group information regarding access to the UBL
2.0 Issues List and how to post issues. He has since posted issues uncovered in
past reviews and discussed at previous meetings and encouraged members of the
TSC to use that Issues list as the single point of collection for any further
issues uncovered. During the discussion Tim identified 4 categories of issues:
1. Bugs; 2. Missing field elements; 3. New requirements; and 4. General. It was
further recognized that there is need for an additional category which
reviewers of the 2.0 package could use to express the need for a clarification.
This would get issues and clarification requests in one place. Tim will talk to
Betty Harvey about this and about modifying the present issues form to capture
the necessary data. Kama remarked that the TSC will continue
to hold weekly telecons through the period of the review and will include an
item on the weekly agenda to consider any new entries on the issues list that
are appropriate for the TSC to address. As one aspect of getting clarifications,
Andy reported that a team from DOT is reviewing 2.0 package and is seeking the
best way to obtain clarifications. For example, the review term thought the
terms shipment and consignment could benefit from a clearer distinction in
their respective definitions. The value of a glossary of terms was
discussed. The key terms, such as shipment and consignment, to be put in
the glossary would have to be identified by members of the TSC and PSC as they
are the ones who have the domain expertise to make the judgments. The
definitions of the key terms would then have be extracted from the existing
spreadsheets in order to maintain consistency. 2. Work on Support Materials As a followup to an action from last
telecom, Andy reviewed a draft paper, which he had distributed earlier, which
presents a first cut of a Use Case graphic and its accompanying text material
for “Initiate Transport Services.” Based on material taken from the
2.0 package as well as earlier work of the TSC, Andy summarized the substance
of the “Initiate Transport Services” process which puts the
transport messages in generalized business context. The group agreed that is
was a good start and that the next steps were to have Transport knowledgeable
members of the TSC review it for accuracy and further embellishment. Tom
offered to review along with a review by someone from DTTN. It was recognized
that once the Use Case descriptions were more comprehensive with the transport
messages tied together, then it would be appropriate to develop sample document
instances that reflect the sequence of messages and the continuity of
information exchange. Karma took the action to get the material forwarded
to DTTN. Tim remarked that the treatment of process information as Use Case
graphics coupled with a structure Use Case text description could be applicable
to the PSC context as well. This would be considered once the package has
matured. On a related topic, Tim remarked that
preliminary comments have come in from TBG3 which also suggested the need for
more “context” surrounding the Transport messages. Tim agreed to
circulate those comments to the TSC for consideration and discussion at a
future meeting. 3. AOB a. b. Kama
confirmed that the UBL Face to Face TC meeting will be held in Action Items:
Regards, Andy Schoka -- |
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