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[Jon Bosak]

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 ================================================================== 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.