Draft Minutes of Transport Subcommittee Call 5 October 2005

Please review the minutes and notify me of any additions or
corrections. We will approve them at the next SC meeting.

 

MINUTES OF TRANSPORT SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING

1500-1615 (Singapore time) WEDNESDAY 05
 OCTOBER 2005

 

ATTENDANCE

 

   Mike Onder - Team Leader Freight Technology
& Operations (USDOT-Federal Highway
Administration)

   Andy Schoka - Information Systems Engineer
(US)

   Tim McGrath (UBL TC)

   Ng Siew Wai (CECID)

   Thomas Lee (CECID)

   Jern-Kuan, Leong (CrimsonLogic)

   Grace Ng (CrimsonLogic)

 

1.      
Warm welcome to the
attendance and participation of Mike and Andy in this tele-con call despite of
the inconvenient time zone for the call.

 

2.      
Transport Process
document:

 

(a)   
Main concern is the
timing / schedule to introduce the 3 additional documents (Packing List, Freight
Charges & Transport Instruction).

 

(b)   
It was suggested to
document the complete Transport business process as model in the Transport
Process document.  In the document, to state which documents will be covered
in the current UBL2.0 release and next phase.  “Complete”
transport process would refer to trading documents from ‘Consignor’
to ‘Consignee’.

 

3.      
Transport Data Model:

 

(a)   
The critical path is
to get the Transport data model completed showing the class diagram to describe
the high level view with the respective properties within each class component
before getting the spreadsheet done.  (UML style).

 

(b)   
Tim updated that he
had spoken with Peter Stook on having more involvement of DTTN personnel (e.g.
Ralph) in UBL-TSC.  Ralph’s participation had been limited as DTTN
are in the implementation phase of their work.  He’s contribution is
vital to the progress of the Transport data model.  Thomas to assist in
obtaining DTTN’s contribution.

 

4.      
UBL Timelines:

(a)     
UBL-TSC to work
towards signing-off the Transport Data Model by 19 Oct 2005.

(b)     
The critical path is
to get the Transport Data Model done up, prior to the completeness of the
Transport Process document.

 

5.      
Digital Signature:

(a)     
Sought the comments
from CrimsonLogic on the queries and comments by Stephen Green and Peter L. Borresen.

(b)     
From there, we would
need a “yes/no” to be included into the coming UBL2.0 release in
Nov 2005.

(c)      
Suggested to introduce
digital signature to UBL2.0 according to how it is done in COML.  Leaving
comments during the public review stage.

 

6.      
Mike Onder gave
an introduction on his background of working with the Electronic Freight
Manifest (EFM).

(a)     
EFM uses the ‘Intelligent Transportation
System’ (ITS), a intergration/management transportation system. 
Manages freight movement.

(b)     
Business relations with “Limited Brand”,
a Just-In-Time (JIT) system, as well as with ‘International Air Transport
Association’ (IATA).

(c)      
In the process of finding dataset for Proof of
Concept.

(d)     
Mke would like to make use of workdone by UNCEFECT-TBG3
standards for EFM for data exchange between partners.

(e)     
Works closely with working group in ISO.

 

7.      
Discuss the USDOT & TBG3 participation in TSC
work

(a)     
Mike shared on an interest to collaborate with TBG3
with the EFM requirements.

(b)     
To have the
opportunity to work with TBG3 & UBL during the face to face meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia.

(c)      
EFM is in detailed
design currently and looks forward to be able to use the dataset by March 2006.

(d)     
Due to time constraint
and schedule for UBL2.0 release, Tim suggested that it’ll be a good time
for EFM to use the public review period (8 weeks) to comment on the
UBL2.0.  With the comments, depending on the gap difference between
requirement of EFM and what’s release in UBL2.0, decisions may be made to
either include in UBL2.0 or for post UBL2.0.

 

8.      
AOB:

(a)   
Time zone of
conference call:  Tim expected more European involvement, thus the timing
of calls to be 3pm, SGT.  However, since we’re getting US participants
(from Mike and Andy), tele-con time may need to consider a more pacific
friendly time-zone.  Having said that, Tim suggested that for the time
being, we’ll stay on the current 3pm SGT timezone.
 If there’s a need for US contribution on a specific issue, a separate tele-con may be
arranged.

 

(b)   
Tim is planning a day
visit to SG on 20th Oct to spend some time with CrimsonLogic to have
a face to face meeting to speed up work done for Transportation data model.
 Suggested Thomas and Ralph to visit SG and join in to the face to face
meeting.   Thomas will reply on his availability soon.

 

(c)    
Mike displayed
interested in a collaboration with DTTN.  Thomas to send some info to Mike
for better appreciation of their work done.

 

9.      
Next meeting will be
held on Wed 12 Oct 2005, 3pm SGT.

 

 

ACTION
ITEMS:

 

1.      
Thomas will get amendments
on Process doc done by this week, with a complete flow of Delivery process.

2.      
Thomas to reply Tim on
whether meeting in SG on 20th Oct is ok.

3.      
CrimsonLogic to
provide a reply the email from Stephen Green and Peter L. Borresen on
digital signature.

 

 

Regards

Kamarudin Tambi

Chair, Transport SubCommittee

 

 

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