Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 25|26 February 2008

[jon.bosak@Sun.COM]

MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING
TUESDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2008

ATTENDANCE

   Jon Bosak (chair)
   G. Ken Holman
   Andy Schoka
   Sylvia Webb

STANDING ITEMS

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

      None.

   Liaison report: X12

      SW: The X12 meeting was held the last week of January.  Dan
      Kazzaz was re-elected X12 chair, and HIPAA consultant and
      longtime X12N (Insurance) participant Gary Beatty took his
      seat as the new X12 vice chair.  X12C (corresponding to
      UN/CEFACT ATG) elected new chair Chris Olberg and new vice
      chair Sylvia Webb, replacing Mike Rawlins and Peter Pruyne.
      The new X12C leadership is very supportive of international
      standards; the next version of CICA will require conformance
      to ISO 11179-5 in line with the interpretation adopted by
      UN/CEFACT.  The X12 Steering Committee established a Process
      Improvement Group with three tasks: (1) establish rules for
      how to assign work items, (2) develop a set of internal
      processes and procedures for working with other standards,
      including UBL and Core Components, and (3) improve the
      ability of members to participate in standards development
      without having to attend F2F meetings.

      JB: It would be very helpful for users of both UBL and X12
      if a mapping were established between their respective
      document schemas.  Between April and August of this year,
      there will be a window of opportunity for content additions
      to UBL as we perform the data modeling for UBL 2.1.  We
      would be happy during that time to incorporate any
      reasonable additions to UBL that would enable lossless
      round-tripping between X12 and UBL versions of the same
      document instances.

   Subcommittee report: TSC

      AS: Will meet some time in March.

   Review of Atlantic call

      No comments.

   Support page submissions

      None this week.

UPDATE PACKAGE STATUS REPORT AND SCHEDULING

   ACTION (1/8): JB to revise the work schedule spreadsheet.

      Pending.

   "While all the other DENs are now correct, the corresponding
   changes to representation terms and property terms in schema
   documentation have yet to be made.  ACTION (2/19): GKH to
   provide a list of changes to be made."

      Done.

   AGREED that we will not (in the Update Package) correct
   discrepancies between spreadsheet and schema versions of the
   same documentation text if the only differences are in spacing
   or line breaks.  We can address these differences in 2.1.

PLANNING FOR THE TC MEETING IN BOLOGNA 14-18 APRIL 2008

   Agenda

      Restarting the PSC

      Coordination between PSC and TSC, in particular:

         Joint work on BITS

         Feedback from both SCs regarding SBS 2.0:

            http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/23873

         Identification of business rules that (1) are wanted in
         UBL but not addressable by the NDR (e.g., the requirement
         to include one of PartyName and PartyIdentifier but not
         both) or (2) represent data constraints inherited from
         another standard (e.g., lengths of data items specified
         by UNTDED), the rules so identified to become candidates
         for a list of best practices implemented as Schematron
         assertions

      Work on Customization Guidelines

      Localization after release of the Update Package

   Format: Opening plenary Monday morning, closing plenary
   Thursday afternoon, possible work session Friday

   Planning to attend: TM (chair), GKH, MC, PB, RobertoC, OriolB

   Hoping to attend: AS

   Not planning to attend: JB, BH, MG, ZR, TonyC

   ACTION (2/12): JB to assemble logistical information in hand so
   far.

      Pending.

   GKH, TM, and probably AS will be staying in apartments downtown
   and taking the bus to the meeting.  RC and MC are staying at a
   hotel in a more industrial area.

UBL 2.1 ISSUES LIST

   ACTION (12/18): TM to populate the new issues list with all
   currently known UBL 2.1 issues.

      Pending.

2008 TC MEETING SCHEDULE

   4-8 August 2008 in Montréal

      Confirmed.  Hotel Europa, rue Drummond (the week prior to
      the Balisage conference in the same location).

   January 2009 in Fremantle

      Still tentative.

TC CONCALL SCHEDULE

   TM will be switching to the Atlantic call for the next few
   months while traveling in Europe.  No cancellations are
   foreseen for the next couple of months, though work items
   usually handled in the Pacific call may be shifted to the
   Atlantic call.  Note that there will be no UBL TC calls the
   weeks of 7, 14, and 21 April due to the UBL TC F2F in Bologna.

OTHER BUSINESS

   ACTION: JB to notify OASIS on Wednesday that we have approved
   formation of the Adoption SC, etc.:

      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200802/msg00035.html

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC