RE: [ubl] UBL 1.0 Beta Committee Draft approved

["Ram Kumar" <rkumar@msi.com.au>]

Congratulations to the entire UBL team for this wonderful
accomplishment! Well done!

Regards,

Ram Kumar
OASIS CIQ

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> From: jon.bosak@sun.com [mailto:jon.bosak@sun.com]
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> Subject: [ubl] UBL 1.0 Beta Committee Draft approved
> 
> 
> UBL members and observers,
> 
> I am pleased to report that UBL 1.0 Beta has been approved as an
> OASIS Committee Draft by the OASIS Universal Business Language
> Technical Committee and is now available for public implementation
> testing. A formal announcement of this event can be expected after
> the OASIS staff returns from the Thanksgiving holiday next week.
> 
> OASIS Committee Drafts require the affirmative vote of 2/3 of the
> voting members of the technical committee responsible for the
> draft with no more than 1/4 voting to disapprove. In the final
> vote on UBL 1.0 Beta, the draft received votes to approve from 91
> percent of the voting members of the UBL TC and votes to
> disapprove from none of them.
> 
> The UBL 1.0 Beta package is temporarily located at
> 
>    http://ubl.cim3.org/~lcsc/lcsc-distribution-v1-0-beta/
> 
> A zip file of the complete package is also available for download
> from this location.  The official copy of the Committee Draft will
> soon be available at
> 
>    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/lcsc/UBLv1-beta/
> 
> Many thanks to Peter Yim for use of his web site during
> construction of the Beta draft.
> 
> The UBL 1.0 Beta package is intended to provide the specifications
> needed to begin implementation testing of UBL in advance of its
> recommendation to OASIS for standardization. The implementation
> testing phase begins now and will end two weeks prior to the UBL
> TC meeting in Washington D.C. 23-27 February 2004. An
> implementation subcommittee (UBL ISC) is has been formed to
> coordinate input received during implementation testing.
> 
> With regard to the normative components, this draft is intended to
> represent UBL 1.0 as it will be released next year, with the
> exception of code list validation (which will be addressed by a
> Code List Subcommittee that has been formed for this purpose) and
> fixes for any major problems that may be discovered during the
> implementation phase. With regard to the non-normative aspects of
> the draft, in particular the page formatting, illustrations, and
> documentation, this release is still just a draft and will be
> subject to further editorial work during the implementation phase.
> 
> Jon Bosak
> Chair, OASIS UBL TC
> 
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