Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 23|24 April 2007

[jon.bosak@sun.com]

MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING
TUESDAY 24 APRIL 2007

ATTENDANCE

   Jon Bosak (chair)
   G. Ken Holman
   Tim McGrath (vice chair)
   Andy Schoka

STANDING ITEMS

   Additions to the calendar:
      http://ibiblio.org/bosak/ubl/calendar.htm

      JB: It was great meeting with the Washington DC SGML/XML
      Users' Group; thanks to BH for setting this up.  Take-away
      from the Collaborative Expedition Workshop: we need to work
      for U.S. adoption by talking to individual agencies rather
      than looking to the FEA as a top-down exercise.

   Subcommittee report: PSC

      TM: Meeting Monday.

   Subcommittee report: TSC

      AS: Nothing recently; meeting likely next week.

   Review of Atlantic call

      No comments.

UBL TC MEETING IN MANHATTAN 7-11 MAY 2007

   Status and planning: A revised preliminary agenda containing the
   results of this discussion will be made available shortly.

   GKH: Have posted a number of code-list related documents in
   preparation for the meeting in Manhattan:

      "UBL 2.0 code list support package uploaded"
      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200704/msg00024.html

         First version of the CL support package; plan is to
         wordsmith in Manhattan and then add to Support Page.
         Contains all of the artefacts used to create the second
         pass XSLT validation.

      "Data entry of coded values for UBL or any XML document when
      using the UBL Methodology for Code List and Value
      Validation"
      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200704/msg00025.html

         Data entry when using the methodology: how to take
         advantage of the ability to use different versions or
         subsets of code lists at different places in an instance
         (different dropdowns depending on where you are in the
         document).

      "GKH's latest thoughts on UBL modeling, deployment,
      customization and minor versioning"
      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200704/msg00027.html

         Input on the customization document, taking into account
         the discussions in Singapore regarding the distinction
         between model-level compatibility and document-level
         conformance; input to a unifying theory for discussion
         and inclusion in the document the NDR editors are working
         on.

      "UBL 2.0 XPath files published with revised XPath file
      document model"
      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200704/msg00028.html

         Revised version of the XPath files (enumeration of the
         info items for all the UBL 2 document models).  The XPath
         XSD has been revised to optimize file size, and now all
         the XPath files in support of exhaustive enumeration are
         published.

      "Two new documents re: UBL Methodology for Code List and
      Value Validation"
      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200704/msg00031.html

         These two new documents provide a case study of what
         other standards efforts need to do in order to deploy
         genericode and UBL's CL methodology.

      ACTION: All F2F participants to have read these documents
      before the meeting.

UBL TC MEETING IN EUROPE 24-28 SEPTEMBER 2007

   Nothing new; location still uncertain (Stockholm vs. Madrid),
   but not the schedule.

SUPPORT PAGE SUBMISSION

   UBL: An Introduction
   Language: Italian
   Modality: class, slides, online course in preparation
   Author: Arianna Brutti

   This Italian-language course, sponsored by ENEA (the Italian
   National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the
   Environment) and funded by the government of the Emilia-Romagna
   region, is free and lasts about an hour.  It can be arranged on
   demand by Universities and other institutions.  Contents:
   introduction to UBL (what UBL is, its objective, its approach
   and its reference sources), practical use of UBL (structure of
   the messages and of the component libraries, reference business
   collaborations and business documents supported by UBL 2.0),
   UBL contextualization (why and how).  The slides used during
   the course will shortly be available online.

   http://spring.bologna.enea.it/ubl-italia/imple/pgcl.asp?lingua=en&p=139&nomenu=1

      AGREED to add this course to the Support Page.

      AGREED to add the Code List Support Package (see above) to
      the Support Page.

      ACTION: JB to change the URL for the XPath files to a new
      URL provided in the email noted above.

      ACTION: JB to change the URL for the UBL Code List and Value
      Validation Methodology from 22591 to 23703.

      AGREED to add a reference to the case study (see above) to
      the Support Page in the same paragraph as the reference to
      the CL methodology: "related case study" (not the same as
      the entry for the CL support files).

OTHER ACTION ITEMS

   ACTION: TM to finish editing the Danish implementation
   guidelines.

      In progress.

OTHER BUSINESS

   GKH: How can an observer in the TC become a voting member in an
   SC?

   JB: The person must change his TC status from observer to
   member via the kavi interface (in order to comply with OASIS IP
   policy).  This TC membership then allows him to add himself to
   the SC as a voting member.  Note that voting membership in the
   TC is not a prerequisite for voting membership in the SC.

   TM: We have been advised that CCTS 3 is entering its second
   public review period.

   TM/AS: Intend to submit separate personal comments.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC