Agenda for Pacific UBL TC call 10 September 2014 00:00UTC

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

AGENDA FOR PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING WEDNESDAY 10 September 2014 00:00UTC
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Note that this meeting takes place TUESDAY EVENING west of the Atlantic Ocean
and after midnight in Europe.  See the time-and-date link above for details.

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STANDING ITEMS

  Additions to events calendar: http://ubl.xml.org/events
    - any events to add at this time?

  Review of Atlantic call minutes
    https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201409/msg00004.html

  Review of Pacific call minutes
    https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201409/msg00001.html

  Membership status review
    https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process#membership
    https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/membership.php?wg_abbrev=ubl
    https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ubl/members/roster.php?num_items=80

    - voting status is determined by the following:
      - existing voting members must not miss two consecutive meetings to
        maintain voting status
      - non-voting members must attend two consecutive meetings to obtain
        voting status
    - committee officers (alphabetical):
      - Jon Bosak (secretary)
      - G. Ken Holman (co-chair)
      - Tim McGrath (co-chair)
    - current voting member list (alphabetical):
      - Oriol Bausa
      - Kenneth Bengtsson
      - Peter Borresen
      - Kees Duvekot
      - Martin Forsberg
      - G. Ken Holman
      - Ole Madsen
      - Tim McGrath
      - Andy Schoka
    - members approaching losing voting status:
      - Kenneth Bengtsson
    - what can we do to recruit more volunteers to the TC to share
      in the work?

  JIRA tickets
   https://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10170
   - any action needed?

  Web site maintenance (committee web site or UBL.xml.org)
   - any action needed?


ISO/IEC DIS 19845 Universal Business Language Version 2.1 (UBL v2.1)

 - balloting now closed (stage 40.60)

http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=66370

 - approved with 11 votes in favour (92% >= required 66%), 1 vote
   against (7% <= allowed 25%) and 22 abstentions (not counted in
   the vote)
 - the next steps are being discussed with OASIS TC administration
   and with JTC 1
 - vote details are not publicly distributed; Ken was advised that
   the simple tally can be documented


Human Interface Subcommittee (HISC) revival

 - work proceeding on Invoice, Order and Forwarding Instructions
 - Ken delayed by client obligations


UBL TC next steps

  - what promotional issues need to be addressed?
  - UBL 2 is an organic thing that can be grown

  - what do we do for implementation support?
  - should we write a companion document of how to use the specification?
  - industry-specific documentation?
  - make it easier to find what is relevant without changing the actual
    specification

  - how about another UBL International conference in order to
    promote the release of UBL 2.1?  Can anyone host this conference?
      http://ublconference.com or http://ublconference.org
      - perhaps an event in North America and in Europe in 2014/2015
        - Washington DC, Burlington MA (OASIS)?
        - Stockholm in December?

  - how about a Twitter feed of UBL adoption and announcements?

  - what subject matter issues need to be addressed?
    - more transportation co-ordination issues
    - communications with transportation regulatory organizations
    - DBE-Core Information Set requirements?

  - what technical issues need to be addressed?
    - are any schema changes needed?
    - suggestion for new requirements for existing documents:
      - customs document alignment
      - tendering document alignment

  - what educational materials need to be made available?
    - how about YouTube videos regarding access to the UBL package?


TC CONCALL SCHEDULE

 Next meetings:

   2014-09-17 Pacific 00:00UTC/20:00EDT, Atlantic 14:00UTC/16:00CEST/10:00EDT
   2014-09-24 Pacific 00:00UTC/20:00EDT, Atlantic 14:00UTC/16:00CEST/10:00EDT
   2014-10-01 Pacific 00:00UTC/20:00EDT, Atlantic 14:00UTC/16:00CEST/10:00EDT

 Will anyone be requesting a leave of absence in the near future?  For
 privacy reasons, this discussion will be kept off of the minutes.

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