Minutes of the Manhattan UBL TC meeting, 2008.01.28-02.01

MINUTES OF THE MANHATTAN UBL TC MEETING,
28 JANUARY - 1 FEBRUARY 2008

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MONDAY 28 JANUARY 2008: OPENING PLENARY

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Attendance

In person:

Jon Bosak (chair)

Mavis Cournane

Mike Grimley

G. Ken Holman

Kim, SungHyuk

Ole Madsen

Andy Schoka

Mike Onder

By phone:

Tim McGrath (vice chair)

Report from the chair (Bosak)

The window for 2.1 input is between April 2008 in Bologna and

August 2008 in Montr�al.

AGREED that we should aim to have a 2.1 version of the

Customization Guidelines ready for release with UBL 2.1.  We

assume that there won't be a lot of new requirements, just

possible refinement.

AGREED that we will finish up work on the UBL 2.0 NDR in

Atlantic TC calls.  First session: 20 February, to include JB,

MC, MG, GKH, plus BH if available.

The UBL localization subcommittees will have work to do after

the changes have been made for the Update Package; the wording

of some of the definitions has changed.

DKLSC report (Madsen)

See

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27190

The next OIOUBL version will be based on UBL 2.1.  The client

shown in the report is available in both Java and C# versions;

a translation of the client UI into Italian is underway.

ACTION: OM to send a list of the online input/output facilities

for the Support Page.

UN/CEFACT Liaison report (McGrath)

See

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27189

Federal Community of Practice (Onder)

The U.S. Department of Transportation has approved a six-month

exploration of the possibility that DOT could lead a Federal

Community of Practice for UBL.  Such a CoP would presumably use

GSA-provided collaborative software in place of ubl-dev, which

is currently listed in this role as a placeholder.

MG noted that he is involved in the Universal Core Initiative,

which is defining a cross-agency core data set.

ACTION: MG to discuss this initiative with MO.

GKH: Crane has made a UNLK PDF rendering for UBL Invoice

available in 12 languages; perhaps Transportation Status could

be the next doc type to receive this treatment.  A UNLK-like

format and mapping will be needed to accomplish this.  DOT is

invited to contribute.

The remaining reports were moved to the Wednesday afternoon
plenary (see below).

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TUESDAY 29 JANUARY 2008

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No plenary sessions Tuesday.

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WEDNESDAY 30 JANUARY 2008: AFTERNOON PLENARY

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Attendance

Jon Bosak (chair)

Mavis Cournane

Mike Grimley

G. Ken Holman

Kim, SungHyuk

Ole Madsen

Andy Schoka

SBSC/HISC report (Holman)

Gruffudd Williams has had to withdraw due to other commitments.

Mark Seaborne of picoforms is working on XForms input; we will

be discussing his participation later in the week.  OM is

helping with mappings to UNLK.  In sum: SBSC has a manpower

issue, because Gruffud's prototype was to have been used for

SBSC.  HISC is still in need of mappings; note that the

formatting specifications produced by HISC are exemplars or

guidelines, not normative.

KRLSC report (Kim)

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27194

ESLSC report

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27191

ITLSC report

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27192

JPLSC report

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27193

TSC report (Schoka)

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27195

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THURSDAY 31 JANUARY 2008: MORNING PLENARY

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Attendance

In person:

Jon Bosak (chair)

Mike Grimley

G. Ken Holman

Kim, SungHyuk

Ole Madsen

Andy Schoka

By phone:

Tim McGrath (vice chair)

Adoption SC

OASIS has suggested the formation of a UBL focus area in the

OASIS domain at ubl.xml.org.  This would be implemented as a

wiki; see dita.xml.org for an example.  It would support file

sharing, news events, software downloads, etc.  The site would

both provide for a more interactive environment for the support

of UBL and a collaborative site through which organizations

implementing UBL could share experience in a more proactive way

than can be accomplished via the existing UBL Support Page.  As

with dita.xml.org, the site would be maintained by an editorial

committee.  OASIS has suggested that the most logical way to

form the editorial committee would be as an "Adoption

Subcommittee" of the UBL TC.

Advantages of this approach would include:

- Moving the current UBL Support Page to a more interactive

environment

- Differentiating the function of the TC in developing

standards from adoption and implementation activities

- Increasing visibility (these focus areas are promoted at

OASIS symposia)

- Maintaining TC ownership via the Adoption Subcommittee

OASIS requires at least one site sponsor; TM's new company,

Document Engineering Services Ltd., has been accepted as the

first sponsor.

AGREED to the following plan for approval by the TC via letter

ballot:

1. We accept the offer to create the ubl.xml.org site.

2. We accept the suggestion from OASIS to form a UBL Adoption

Subcommittee as the ubl.xml.org editorial board.

3. We request the formation of the new Adoption Subcommittee,

keeping the existing SSC (Support Page) live during the

transition and eventually redirecting from there to the new

ASC.

4. We appoint G. Ken Holman as both head of the editorial board

and chair of the ASC, and we appoint the following UBL TC

members to consitute the editorial board and the membership

of the ASC:

Oriol Bausa

Mikkel Brun

Roberto Cisternino

Tony Coates

Asuman Dogac

Martin Forsberg

Mike Grimley

Tim McGrath

ACTION: JB to send default letter ballot to the TC.

Customization Guidelines

TM: Examples needed and compatibility section needs to be

expanded, e.g., semantic equivalence per SG:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200801/msg00019.html

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200801/msg00021.html

ACTION: TM to draft a paragraph on semantic equivalence that

will go somewhere around section 3.2.1.

ACTION: AS to create a tree diagram.

ACTION: MG to prepare a revised draft of Chapter 1 (the current

sections 1-3) in time for people to review before the next

Pacific call.

Subcommittee participation

ACTION: For TSC: AS to ask Mike Onder for suitable contacts at

Fedex, UPS, DHL, Menlo, etc.; JB to send message regarding the

window of opportunity for inputs to UBL 2.1; MG to continue to

pursue opportunities to find people in DoD/DoN, perhaps arrange

for a presentation from USDOT.

ACTION: For HISC: JB to put out notice regarding HISC openings

to ubl-dev, including layout design and mappings for

transportation and catalogue documents.

SBSC is stalled after reassignment of cochair; AGREED to

suspend SBSC activity for the moment and see how BITS proceeds

on resumption of the PSC in April.

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THURSDAY 31 JANUARY 2008: AFTERNOON PLENARY

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All business scheduled for the afternoon session was completed

during the morning plenary; however, the phone line was opened

at 15:00 EST as scheduled to allow remote participation.

Attending the afternoon session were Jon Bosak (chair), Mike

Grimley, G. Ken Holman, and Andy Schoka.  The meeting was

adjourned at 16:01 EST, no one having dialed in and no formal

business except adjournment having been conducted.

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FRIDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2008

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No plenary sessions Friday.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC