30-day Public Review for Universal Business Language Version 2.1

The Universal Business Language (UBL) TC members [1] have produced an  
updated Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification  
for 30-day public review:

Universal Business Language Version 2.1

Committee Specification Draft 02 / Public Review Draft 02

30 May 2011

Specification Overview:

UBL, the Universal Business Language, is the product of an international   
effort to define a royalty-free library of standard electronic XML business  
documents such as purchase orders and invoices. Developed in an open and  
accountable OASIS Technical Committee with participation from a variety of  
industry data standards organizations, UBL is designed to plug directly into  
existing business, legal, auditing, and records management practices,  
eliminating the re-keying of data in existing fax- and paper-based supply  
chains and providing an entry point into electronic commerce for small and  
medium-sized businesses. 

This specification defines the Universal Business Language, version 2.1  

Public Review Period:

The public review starts Friday, 26 August 2011 and ends 24 September 2011.  
The specification was previously submitted for a 60-day public review on 25  
September 2010 [2]. This review is limited in scope to changes made from the  
previous review. Changes are detailed in section B.3.4 of the Committee  
Specification Draft. 

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from  
potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the  
sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

URIs:
The prose specification document and related files are available here:

PDF:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/prd2-UBL-2.1/UBL-2.1.pdf

HTML:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/prd2-UBL-2.1/UBL-2.1.html

Editable source:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/prd2-UBL-2.1/UBL-2.1.xml (Authoritative) 

ZIP distribution files (complete):
For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose  
specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download  
the ZIP file here:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/prd2-UBL-2.1/UBL-2.1-PRD2-2011-05-30.zip

Additional information about the specification and the OASIS Universal  
Business Language (UBL)  TC may be found at the TC's public home page located  
at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the  
OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be accessed via the button labeled "Send  
A Comment" at the top of the TC public home page, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=ubl

Feedback submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of  
this TC is publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License,  
which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at  
least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public  
review of Universal Business Language Version 2.1, we call your attention to  
the OASIS IPR Policy [3] applicable especially [4] to the work of this  
technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this  
document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and  
availability of a member's patent, copyright, trademark and license rights  
that read on an approved OASIS specification. OASIS invites any persons who  
know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the  
implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be  
posted to the notice page for this TC's work.

========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) TC

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/

[2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201009/msg00026.html

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/ipr.php

http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php#s10.2.3

RF on Limited Terms

Best Regards,

/chet

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Chet Ensign

Director of Standards Development and TC Administration

OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society

http://www.oasis-open.org

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