Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 23|24 February 2009

MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING
TUESDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2009

ATTENDANCE

Jon Bosak (chair)

Anne Hendry

G. Ken Holman

Tim McGrath (vice chair)

Andy Schoka

STANDING ITEMS

Additions to the calendar:

http://ubl.xml.org/events

GKH: Proposed dates for XML 2009: 30 September to 1 October

2009, Arlington, Virginia.

Review of Atlantic call minutes

No comments.

Schedule review

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200902/msg00007.html

UBL 2.1 (General)

GKH: We need a row between 11 and 12 for production of

the schema generation environment.  AGREED to add this

row to the schedule and aim to work on prototyping during

the August TC meeting in Montréal, using the UBL 2.0 data

models for test purposes.

TM: Regarding this correspondence:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200902/msg00016.html

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200902/msg00018.html

Stephen Green has found a couple of ambiguities in the

UBL 2.0 Ordering Process diagram that will require

correction in UBL 2.1.  He has proposed a solution for

these two issues that will be added to the list of 2.1

revisions.

PSC (TM): Will be holding a joint kickoff meeting this week

with members of the CPFR, Sales Report, Utility Statement,

and eTendering teams.  The Icelandic government is now

engaged with the Utility work, and there will be a meeting

next week in Denmark to review feedback coming out of the

UBL TC meeting in Fremantle.

TSC (AS): Met last week, had very positive discussion with

Jan Tore Pedersen and Hans Westerheim of the Freightwise

initiative, including a presentation from Jan.  They will be

working with us going forward.

We used the Yugma SE plugin to Skype for sharing the screen;

it performed well, and everyone was happy with it.  This is

proving a useful tool for sharing spreadsheets,

presentations, and demos.  There is no license fee for the

Skype Edition (SE).  It offers just basic functionality (no

desktop sharing, only host desktop broadcast), but this is

sufficient for our subcommittee meetings.

The TSC meeting this week will take place later in the day,

and we will concentrate on CC harmonization.

FIRTG (JB): The team is OK with the 2009 schedule and is

moving forward.

NDR 2.0 (JB): In the final round of formatting issue

resolution together with BH and GKH.  Work last week was put

aside to get a revision of the Customization Guidelines out

for further editing.  Will pick this up at the beginning of

next week.

Customization: See agenda item below.

IDD Vol. 1 (JB/GKH): ESLSC is implementing the correction to

an error found by GKH and appears to be done.  ACTION: JB to

begin wrapping this up for second (two-week) public review.

XAdES (JB): Prospective members have been identified and are

adding themselves to the TC.  Expect formal constitution of

the task group next week.

UN/CEFACT convergence (TM): Status reviewed.  Still no

feedback on the collaboration proposal.

Issues list updates: AGREED that with the newly instituted

schedule review (above), we don't need this on the list as a

separate Standing Agenda Item.

ISO TC 204 WG1

ACTION (2/17): AS to circulate Cornwall paper to the TC and

invite UBL members to participate in the team currently doing

UBL/UN CC mapping.

Pending.

UBL 2.0 CUSTOMIZATION GUIDELINES

Long discussion of the role of QDT and the difference between

schema conformance and code list conformance.

Result: there will need to be some architectural changes in

2.1, but these do not need to be addressed in the 2.0

guidelines.

ACTION: TM to further revise the draft and copy to the

editorial team working on this.

UBL 2.1 SCHEMA GENERATION

JB: Formation of the Schema Generation Task Group has been

proposed to the TC:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200902/msg00019.html

All TC members interested in participating in the SGTG are

invited to contact Oriol.

JB: Just now in receipt of a message from Mark Crawford

regarding the reference to a "codelist-free UDT."  It appears

that sloppy wording has led to a misunderstanding of what's

intended here; we are extending the UN/CEFACT UDT in a way that

is completely compatible with the UN/CEFACT work, not departing

from it.  ACTION: JB to send a clarification.

2009 TC MEETING SCHEDULE

20-24 April 2009, colocated with the UN/CEFACT Forum in Rome if

possible.

TM: Nothing new to report.  People planning to go should

start making travel arrangements.

17-21 August 2009 in Montréal, colocated with Balisage the

previous week.

TC CONCALL SCHEDULE

JB: Not traveling in March after all, so this is our schedule:

Week of 2009.02.23: Regular schedule

Week of 2009.03.02: Regular schedule

Week of 2009.03.09: Regular schedule

Week of 2009.03.16: Regular schedule

Week of 2009.03.23: Regular schedule

Week of 2009.03.30: Regular schedule

OTHER BUSINESS

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC