Minutes of Atlantic UBL TC call 16 February 2010

MINUTES OF ATLANTIC UBL TC MEETING
TUESDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2010

ATTENDANCE

Kenneth Bengtsson

Jon Bosak (chair)

Tony Coates

Anne Hendry

STANDING ITEMS

Additions to the calendar:

http://ubl.xml.org/events

None.

Review of Pacific call minutes

No comments (most items covered below).

PEPPOL/BII MEETINGS IN COPENHAGEN

KB: The PEPPOL conference went very well.  Stuart Feder (chair

of CEFACT) was appointed to head BII phase 2.

ADDING NEW DOCUMENT TYPES

We have a request to add one new CPFR document type, Purchase

Conditions (not two as recorded in the minutes of the Pacific

TC call).

JB: Let's review the way we approve new UBL content.  The

method we've used since before UBL 0.7 is as follows:

- Content is developed by business experts in a relevant UBL

content subcommittee.  In UBL 0.7 and 1.0, this was a single

subcommittee called "the Content Subcommittee."  Since then,

this work has taken place in two subcommittees, the UBL

Procurement Subcommittee (PSC) and the UBL Transportation

Subcommittee (TSC).  These subcommittees are trusted to make

virtually all decisions about the UBL data models.

- The rules for creating an XML syntax binding for the data

models are created by a separate team.  In UBL 0.7 and 1.0,

this was a subcommittee called the NDR Subcommittee; in UBL

2.0 and later, this work has been entrusted to the two NDR

editors, who work closely with the TC and (in 2.1) the

Schema Generation Subcommittee.

- The UBL TC itself is formally responsible for everything

that goes into each UBL release.  In practice, this

authority is generally exercised by approving or

disapproving the entire release when it comes time to

approve a draft.  In every release so far, there have been

actual issues to resolve at the TC level, but for practical

reasons we try whenever possible to resolve these in the

subcommittees and only look at issues for which resolution

at the subcommittee level has proven impossible.

- For UBL 2.1, we've put two other groups into the process.

One of these groups is a Modeling Integration Team that was

created on 27 October 2009 and consists of TM, AS, and PB:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200910/msg00029.html

The other group is the Schema Generation Task Group, which

was created a year ago (2009.02.23-03.02) and consists of

GKH, Oriol, and TonyC:

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

The way content gets into the release now is as follows:

1. The PSC or TSC approves content

2. The Modeling Integration Team verifies that the content

is properly integrated into the data models

3. The data models go to the SGTG

4. The SGTG generates the schemas using the schema

generation tool (which happens this time around to be

eDoCreator).

(Cf. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201001/msg00003.html)

So the way that this additional document type is going to get

added to the set is as follows:

1. The PSC approves the new Purchase Conditions document

type (or not)

2. The MIT verifies that Purchase Conditions is properly

integrated into the data models

3. The revised data models go to the SGTG

4. The SGTG generates the revised schema set.

The next step, therefore, is for Fulya to send a message to the

PSC mail list asking for the addition of Purchase Conditions to

UBL 2.1.  Then the PSC considers this (in person or by email),

and so on.

ACTION: JB to call these minutes to the attention of the PSC.

SCHEDULE REVIEW

JB: Waiting for documentation input from PSC/TSC.

TC: Waiting for code list input.

ACTION: JB to ask TM for his copy of the schedule reviewed in

Copenhagen.

2010 UBL TC F2F MEETING SCHEDULE

(Preliminary) 9-13 August 2010 (the week following Balisage

2010) in Montreal: http://www.balisage.net/

JB: It was agreed in Copenhagen to hold this meeting in

Montreal, subject to confirmation of a meeting room.  That

has now been confirmed (and participants will pay reduced

conference rates for their hotel rooms).

AGREED that we are now committed to hold this meeting in

Montreal on the dates specified.

(Preliminary) 7-11 February 2011 at Middle East Technical

University in Ankara: http://www.metu.edu.tr/

KB: Suggest Mexico for the meeting following Ankara.

TC CONCALL SCHEDULE

Discussion of possible change in time/date for this call:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201002/msg00001.html

AGREED to change the regular meeting time for the Atlantic call

to noon New York time on Wednesdays, beginning next week.

AGREED to keep the Pacific call at 7:30 p.m. in New York after

the change to Daylight Saving Time.  (Thus, both Atlantic and

Pacific times will stay the same for North America and Europe

after the change to DST, which means that in both cases, the

UTC time will move earlier by one hour.)

OTHER BUSINESS

KB: Brazil (which has its own national standard for invoices)

is the largest user of electronic invoicing.  In Sao Paulo

alone, almost 7 billion electronic invoices have been sent

since September 2006, and there are 7.2 million participants in

the program.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC

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TRACKING ITEMS

UBL 2.0 NDR IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE WIKI

http://wiki.oasis-open.org/ubl/NDR_2.0_Implementation_Guide

On hold till after F2F in Copenhagen.

UBL 2.1 NAMING AND DESIGN RULES

On hold till after F2F in Copenhagen.

CCTS 2.01 DMR

ACTION (6/30): TM to circulate a draft CCTS 2.01 DMR to the

TC for review.

Pending.

UBL 2.1 DOCUMENTATION

We will have to change the schema dependency diagram and

associated prose to reflect the revised schema generation

strategy:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201001/msg00009.html

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201001/msg00015.html

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201001/msg00016.html

Corresponding changes will also need to be made to the NDR

checklist after initial testing of the preliminary schemas.