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Subject: Where we seem to be
Here's my take on where we stand after recent decisions made in the Atlantic and Pacific TC calls. Jon ================================================================== 1. In response to almost identical requests from IDA (EC), OGC (UK), the OASIS Tax XML TC, and others, the UBL content team has decided to add seven new document types to the next UBL release, as listed below (the already existing UBL 1.0 document types are shown in brackets): Catalogue Request for Quotation Quotation [Order] [Order Response Simple] [Order Response] [Order Change] [Order Cancellation] [Despatch Advice] Rectification Advice [Invoice] Credit Note Debit Note Statement Also included in the next release will be the Request for Certificate of Origin, which has been planned for over a year now. This expansion of the document set is completely independent of NDR considerations and would take place regardless of what we called the next release. 2. To lay the groundwork for a robust minor versioning mechanism still under development, we will be changing the only two locally declared UBL element types, ID and Code, to global. After this change, all element types in UBL will be global. UBL 1.0 semantics will be entirely unaffected by this change, but since it will necessitate a complete regeneration of the schema set, our naming and design rules require us to call it "UBL 2.0." We will take advantage of this name change to replace the UBL 1.0 CCTS schema modules with the versions recently published by UN/CEFACT ATG. It should be understood that this monolithic regeneration of the schema set does not represent our long-term strategy for minor versioning but is rather intended to implement a critical change we think will be required for that strategy as early in the deployment of UBL as possible. 3. Our delivery schedule for the next release remains largely unaffected by these changes, but in the short term we will have to do some juggling. Here's what I get based on people's availability over the summer: 09 May 2005 All-week UBL TC meeting in Hangzhou hosted by the China National Institute of Standardization 17 May 2005 Content team meeting in the Pacific TC calls starts processing input from European stakeholders and the OASIS Tax XML TC 18 May 2005 NDR team meeting in the Atlantic TC calls starts reviewing NDR issues in light of the decision to make all elements global, then takes up code lists 15 Jun 2005 Begin Public Review Number 1 (data model only) 01 Jul 2005 GEFEG gets all the schema changes decided so far (DavidK goes on vacation last two weeks of July) 08 Aug 2005 All-week UBL TC meeting in Ottawa hosted by Adobe: Comment disposition, Review Number 1; begin final schema generation for Review Number 2 01 Sep 2005 Package assembly for Review Number 2 15 Sep 2005 Begin Public Review Number 2 (entire package) 15 Oct 2005 Comment disposition and repackaging 15 Nov 2005 2.0 internal UBL CD vote begins 01 Dec 2005 CD approved by start of UBL TC meeting; begin OASIS one-month public review (etc.)
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