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Subject: Highlights (not really minutes) from the Singapore Plenary MeetingNov 6-9 2006
Highlights from UBL Plenary Meeting in Singapore from Nov 6 - 9 2006 Our appreciation goes to CrimsonLogic and ITSC for their wonderful support and hospitality during the meeting. Attendees: Mavis Cournane G. Ken Holman Tim McGrath (acting chair) Yukinori Saito Andy Schoka Kamarudin Bin Tambi Chin Chee-Kai (also ITSC - IETC XML WG Chair) Opening Plenary Guests: Robert Chew - ITSC Chairman Pei Wee - ITSC Secretariat Anne Hendry - past member OASIS UBL TC Invited guests and observers: Wednesday: Brayan Cutinha, Kian Fong, Rajesh (CrimsonLogic) Thursday. Rajesh, Cristopher Marmita (CrimsonLogic) By teleconference: Jon Bosak (Opening Plenary) Peter Borresen (Danish Report) Roberto Cisternino (International Data Dictionary discussion) Monday 6th November ------------------- Opening plenary Welcome from Robert Chew (Chair ITSC, Singapore) Acting chair's opening remarks (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/21026/UBL%20Plenary.ppt) Subcommittee and team reports (these came in over the week but for convenience they are listed here) Danish project status (Peter Borresen) (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/21056/Status%20from%20Denmark_singapore.ppt) Transportation Subcommittee report (Kamarudin Bin Tambi) (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/21027/UBL%20TSC%20Report%20%28Singapore%2C%202006-11-06%29.ppt) Japanese Localization Subcommittee report (Yukinori Saito) (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/21025/UBL%20JPLSC%20Report%20%28Singapore%2C%202006-11-06%29.ppt) Spanish Localization Subcommittee report (Oriol Bausa) (http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ubl/download.php/21289/eslsc%20report.odp) Procurement Subcommittee report (Mark Leitch): 1. NES customisation continues apace and we intend to use the UBL Conference as a vehicle to expand the UBL subset further across Europe 1. we will engage with IDABC to seek their help / funding at a European level 2. we will use the UN/CEFACT convergence as a level to this end as this squares the IDABC/CEN circle even if that is stretching the metaphor too far * UBL is the useable stepping stone to a unified UN/CEFACT standard 2. We continue with the aforementioned convergence work with a three day meeting with TBG1 at the end of this month. This will address Purchase Order at a BRS level. 1. we have already done Invoice, Credit Note and Remittance Advice. 2. we were encouraged by the reception we got in New Delhi, but the deeper we look into CEFACT the more blurred our vision becomes. 3. it appears that the convergence could be a) the catalyst for some major sorting out in CEFACT, b) for some, an irritant or c) both. 4. we can help with some of the sorting out, but we do not own the problems for the PSC, specifically, the TBG1/TBG2 issue. 3. The NES customisation is, of course, highlighting some omissions and errors (I like to call them Œtypos¹) in 2.0 1. e.g. the absence of Payment on Statement Line 2. we will have to defer some of these to 2.1 UN/CEFACT collaboration (Tim McGrath) (see presentation at http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ubl/download.php/21288/UBL%20and%20CEFACT.odp) UBL 2.0 International Data Dictionary (IDD) Joined by teleconference by Roberto Cisternino (Chair, Italian Localization Subcommittee) Roberto agreed to build a prototype of the template for the UBL 2.0 IDD based on samples from Japan. Once finalized and agreed each Localization subcommittee will be given the template to complete their translations. Schedule for delivery will depend on each SC. JPLSC estimated 9 months for their work and ITLSC estimated 3-4 weeks. Other subcommittees such as Chinese (Simplified), Spanish and the yet to be formalized Danish group are well advanced in their translation work. UBL structural review (discussion deferred to conference calls - need to add an agenda item) Refocus SBS into general customization work? Japanese Coxec project is similar to SBS - is SBS just a form of customization? Review work plan against existing structures. Tuesday 7th November -------------------- Code List Value Validation Methodology (CLVVM) Ken explained CLVVM to the plenary and got useful feedback. A further edition is planned. It was noted this CLVVM is not a UBL dependent thing, the title was chnaged to reflect this. Also we noted that while is says code list it really applies to any type of value validation. Support package Sample Implementation Guide from Denmark Andy walked through Danish edition and identified areas of interest. It was noted that English translations are underway. We agreed the format of this could be copied for BITS (and other UBL profiles) UBL Customization Methodology Round table dicsussion on the meaning and practice of customization. Agreed that Mavis (and maybe Mike) become custodians of the customization position paper and incorporate the comments from the meeting. A new version could be published early in 2007. We realized that customization of the model and their expression in documents where different issues. It may be the UBLExtensions has some limitations (as per email from Juha). Further discussion is required on how UBLExtensions works in practice. Maybe we need some guidance statements on how to use UBLExtension meaningfully. Wednesday 8th November ---------------------- Support package Basic International Trade Scenario (BITS) Walk through the current package and indetified incomplete items. walked through a sample document (Waybill) to establish proporties for the scenario used by BITS. Agreed we need to complete sample instances as soon as possible. Do we need a ebBP model for BITS? Depends on the schedule. UBL NDR/ ATG2 NDR gap analysis Agreed that UBL should accept the offer to participate with ATG2 in the development of the next version of their NDRs. Mavis and Mike to organize how best to achieve this. Thursday 9th November ---------------------- New TradeNet XML message design feedback New TradeNet is the next generation of Singapore's successful TradeNet Port EDI system (one of the world's largest). CrimsonLogic explained the design decision that led to their customization of UBL for Import and Export Declarations. Their goal was to replciate the EDIFACT documents using UBL. They estimated that they got 60% from UBL and followed UBL methodology for the remainder. Further discussion on Customization/Action Plan Useful feedback from TradeNet allowed us to recognize the great value of having consistent guidelines in this area. We know at least 2 (maybe 3) groups all customizing UBL for customs documents and we want to ensure they can synhcronize their customizations. Closing Plenary Schedule review It was noted we have 3 meetings next year in the eastern North America (and none in Europe). This needs some discussion by the TC. Maybe we can look at co-locating with other groups such as the UN/CEFACT forum. Marketing and promotion of UBL 2.0 General discussion about new ideas for marketing. Key points suggested were... - establish a UBL Blog - publication of articles and conference papers - repeat events such as the UBL Symposium - additional open source tools such as Open Office templates and a UBL broswer plugin OASIS document posting 101 Ken has noted that posting documents to OASIS using default settings means that access is for OASIS members only. this is not what we intend. He will post instructions how to ensure that all UBL documents are accessible by anyone. Procedures for maintenance of UBL 2.0 (versioning,etc.) discussion deferred to conference calls. (need to add an agenda item for weekly calls) Post-Plenary Workshop Friday 10th November ------------------------------------------ HISC revival and stylesheet work Attendees: Ken, Andy, Tim, Kama, Brayan Cutinha, Kian Fong Experts from CrimsonLogic joined to start work on the mapping for UN Layout Key formats for CoO. Mappings will be based on smaple document instacnes not on the entire document model. -- regards tim mcgrath phone: +618 93352228 postal: po box 1289 fremantle western australia 6160 web: http://www.portcomm.com.au/tmcgrath
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