[trans-ws] Minutes of Trans-WS teleconference

Minutes Trans-WS Teleconference - 30 January 2003, 4pm
Dublin/London time

 

1/
roll call 

Attending: Peter, Tony, Bill, Gerard, Paul, Milan,
Reinhard, Steven, Yuri, Andrei, Steven 

 

 

2/ Minutes of previous meeting were accepted. 

3/ Scope of work

Bill proposes: 

 

Loosely dividing into three issues -

      The service (funtionality)

      The technology

      The issues

The Service (functionality)

   Scope

      What we need

         eg. ability to submit a job

      What we definitely don't want to include

         eg. currency based
transactions

      What we need to be open

         eg. Ability to query support

         eg. Ability to extend status
reporting

      What we need to be closed

   Relations

      What we can build on

         Financial translations

         Content management (or at
least specifications)

      What can build on us

         Workflow products BPEL4WS

The technology

   Web Services

      WSDL

         Define messages & ports

         Define bindings in terms of
uri's

      UDDI

         UDDI tModel

         Allow each company to register

   eBXML

      processSchema

         more rigourous than WSDL

         can build on WSDL definition ?

      eBXML repository

         Can refer to the UDDI
repository ?

Some issues

   File transfer

      Mechanisms ? Efficiency ?

      external reference via URL

   Security

      Authentication

      Encryption of transfered data

      Can we build on the Web Services Security stuff
?

   Financial

      Other spec's

      Minimal support inherent

 

Peter: These issues will be considered together with
the emails which TC members have sent describing individual goals of Trans Web
Services. TC to work towards agreement on the work to be undertaken over the
next three to six months.

 

Comments from TC: 

Steve: interested in broader views, like
engineering,  QA,  not just translation.  Need to define what’s included in the
initial set beyond translation.

Gerard – aspects mentioned could be defined under
WSMCCM, which is a standard for defining workflow where participants may not
know of each others.  Suggests that we
discuss 

Paul – on financial side, must be some payments
standards – so we don’t have to reinvent.

Peter – not in a position to fully scope our
work.  Translation is the obvious place
to start, since everyone will have interest in this.

Tony agreed with Steve that we should include other
areas of localization process from the start.

Bill to circulate the list of functionality, and all
will reply with their ideas before next meeting.

 

4/ Schedule Review: 

Timescale for final
draft deliverables as modified at this meeting (emphasis added to changes/additions):

- TwS 1.0 TWS
Overview Abstract 8 weeks after first meeting (new interim milestone)

- TwS 1.0 TWS Business Process Terminology
Specification; 12 weeks after 1st meeting

- TwS 1.0 WSDL Documents; 20 weeks after 1st meeting

- TwS 1.0 UDDI Deploy WSDL as UDI tModels; 24 weeks after 1st meeting

 

Tony doesn’t think the present schedule is feasible –
e.g. 4 more meetings to complete final version of spec is unrealistic unless we
change the meeting frequency.

Reinhard suggested that we initially work on an
abstract introduction report, then a more detailed technical spec that lists
the exact methods or tModels that will be delivered.

 

Peter suggested that the schedule can be left as is
and that the TC schedule a face 2 face meeting to thrash out the work very
quickly, and in this way the TC can make up some time.  TC agreed with this sentiment.

 

 5/ Implementation – TC
decided that it’s too early for this topic – need to define deliverables per
item 3 first.

 

6/ Co-ordinating between localisation standards

 

Gerard felt that it would be advantageous to work
with other standards bodies, sooner rather than later.

Gerard will send around a mail detailing the various
file standards that we should incorporate into our work, especially with file
transfers, etc.

Peter mentioned an ad hoc teleconference between the
various localization / globalization teams is scheduled for next week in order
to discuss areas of common interest and define ways of working more effectively
together.

 

Since all agenda items were discussed, the meeting was
adjourned without motion.  Next meeting
in 2 weeks – same time/same dial in instructions.  Reminders and agenda to be sent in advance.