Re: [ubl] OASIS UBL Technical Committee at age 20

Subject: Re: [ubl] OASIS UBL Technical Committee at age 20 - October 29, 2001-2021

Ken, thank you so much for this cheerful bit of news. 20 years! That is pretty amazing. Not many TCs - or initiatives in general - have lasted that long.Â

Everyone, we at OASIS are honored to have been and continue to be the home for your important work. UBL is one of the communities I brag on whenever someone asks me what we do here. To have 20 years of history and still be adding more to the standard to this day is the evidence that UBL is still crucial to electronic commerce and the digital economy.Â

Thank you and congratulations! I probably won't be on staff to congratulate you on your next 20 - but I don't doubt that you will be there celebrating it.Â

Our best regards,Â

/chetÂ

On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 6:01 PM G. Ken Holman <gkholman@cranesoftwrights.com> wrote:

The first official OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) Technical
Committee meeting was convened by the very respected Jon Bosak, its
first and longtime chairman, twenty years ago on October 29, 2001, in
Menlo Park, California. The four-day meeting ended November 1, 2001:

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200111/msg00005.html

While no voting participant from that meeting is active in the
committee these days, those people laid the foundation for the
success of UBL today that was only anticipated at the time.
Personally, Jon didn't pull me in to write stylesheets for the
committee until two months later in January 2002. I didn't become a
voting member until March 2003 as the founding chairman of the Forms
Presentation subcommittee.

Here, twenty years after the committee was founded, the UBL Standard
is widely recognized, adopted, and embraced around the world for
procurement and for logistics/transportation. It brings to any
business document project a rich repertoire of agreed-upon
established business semantics for standardized business objects. It
also standardizes the corresponding XML interchange labels and
structures used between trading partners or between their network
intermediaries.

Version 0.7 released in 2003 proposed the first invoice and it went
into production across Denmark. Version 1.0 included eight
procurement document types. Version 2.1 is the first release that has
been internationally standardized as ISO/IEC 19845:2015. The
recently-released version 2.3 supports 91 different document types.
And UBL is only growing from here.

Over the years the committee has included many esteemed members of
the worldwide community of business and technical experts. Of note,
Tim McGrath served as a committee co-chair with Jon for many years,
bringing to the committee his business document acumen. Kenneth
Bengtsson now leads the committee into the future with his own
international business expertise. The committee is in good hands going forward.

I cannot list all the very many excellent and tireless committee
members who have contributed over the past 20 years the committee has
been working. One can peek through the archives at meeting minutes to
see how the face of UBL has changed and been enriched through the
years by these wonderful people:

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl

Congratulations to all of the committee members over the years for
the quality of the results of your efforts. You have created
something special that the community finds valuable and essential in
day-to-day business around the world.

Well done!

G. Ken Holman
Former co-chairman, former chairman, former project editor, current evangelist
October 29, 2021

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