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Subject: Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 5|6 February 2007
MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING
00:30 - 02:30 UTC TUESDAY 6 FEBRUARY 2007
ATTENDANCE
Jon Bosak (chair)
G. Ken Holman
Tim McGrath (vice chair)
Andy Schoka
STANDING ITEMS
Additions to the calendar:
http://ibiblio.org/bosak/ubl/calendar.htm
AS: Note UN/CEFACT FMG F2F this week.
Liaison reports (Tax XML TC, UN/CEFACT, X12)
None.
Subcommittee report: PSC
TM: ML out sick.
Subcommittee report: TSC
TM: No meeting last week; Kama trying to schedule for this
week. Received Bill of Lading example from Roberto. Need
to nail down the BITS schedule.
Review of Atlantic call
No comments.
SUPPORT PAGE
ACTION: JB to put SG's sourceforge project on list of proposed
additions for next week.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-dev/200701/msg00054.html
[Actually, we are waiting for a submission from SG. Mail has
been sent.]
JB: Should UBL 1.0 support materials be put on ubl-ssc?
GKH: Just legacy now; will cause confusion.
JB: But I want users to be aware of what we did for 1.0 as an
indication of what we'll be providing for 2.0.
AGREED to set up a UBL 1.0 legacy support page on JB's site at
ibiblio (pending a better suggestion from OASIS) and point to
that from ubl-ssc with a disclaimer that this is legacy
material.
A discussion ensued over whether we want to distinguish "free"
products and services from "commercial" products and services.
JB/AS: Really like the distinction.
TM/GKH: But we can't think of an unambiguous way to express it;
all the "free" products have some connection with commercial
products or services.
AGREED for the time being to put all the products and services
in a single category to be called "UBL 2 resources from third
parties."
AGREED to review this policy at the May F2F in Manhattan.
AGREED to consider a category for consultants (as such,
independent of resources) at the Manhattan F2F and maintain a
moratorium on such listings till then.
With these understandings in mind, the following dispositions
of materials received last week were agreed upon (pending
review in this week's Atlantic call):
1. "Practical Universal Business Language Deployment" book
http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/links/books-ublo.htm
Practical Universal Business Language Deployment
overviews the artefacts published in the Universal
Business Language 2.0 specification, with details on
schemes for deploying and utilizing the artefacts to
effect stated objectives. This book is an electronic
publication offering perpetual no-charge updates as the
content evolves based on deployment and community
experiences.
DISPOSITION: Include on ubl-ssc under Third-party
Resources.
2. "Practical Universal Business Language Deployment"
instructor-led hands-on training
http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/links/sched-ublo.htm
This is a one-, two- or three-day configuration of
instructor-led hands-on training in the deployment and
use of the Universal Business Language 2.0 artefacts. It
is derived from the book of the same title and includes
exercises that are not part of the publication.
DISPOSITION: Include on ubl-ssc under Third-party
Resources.
3. OSS UBL API
http://www.oss.com/products/ubl_main_asn1.html
The OSS UBL API is an implementation of the OASIS
Universal Business Language (UBL), and can be used in
conjunction with the OSS XSD/C Tools or the OSS ASN.1/C
Tools. The API parses, serializes, creates, modifies,
copies, and displays UBL documents in binary or XML
format. The UBL documents are internally represented as C
structures. The UBL Procurement process is fully
supported (concrete API functions are provided for
business transactions). UBL subsets are also supported,
including UBL-SBS. A library and a set of samples using
that library are available. Both static and dynamic
versions of the UBL API libraries are supported on UNIX
and Windows.
DISPOSITION: The current offering should be categorized
as UBL 1.0 legacy. We expect to see another submission
when the UBL 2.0 version becomes available.
4. Contivo Builder
http://www.contivo.com/home/xml-standards.html
Contivo Builder is a schema vocabulary development tool
that simplifies understanding and leveraging XML Schema
vocabularies. The vocabulary approach enables developers
to access the entire collection of schemas in UBL 2.0,
readily reuse the component definitions in new schemas
and capture the relationships between UBL and other
schemas. Based on the Eclipse IDE, Builder is available
at no charge. A vocabulary encompassing the entire UBL
2.0 schemas set is available for free download.
DISPOSITION: Include on ubl-ssc under Third-party
Resources.
5. UN/ECE Electronic Commerce Agreement
http://www.unece.org/cefact/recommendations/rec31/rec31_ecetrd257e.pdf
DISPOSITION: Include under Related Initiatives; JB to
write a description based on language in the introduction
and include some kind of IANAL disclaimer.
ENGAGING U.S. GOVERNMENT USERS
AS: Spent some time reading the ET.gov site and think that this
is a real opportunity to engage U.S. government users. We need
better insight into what it means to be at Stage 2 and how to
get this in front of interested agencies. Will discuss with
USDOT.
ACTION ITEM REVIEW
ACTION: JB to check with SW regarding X12 representation.
Pending. (And add KS to the inquiry.)
ACTION: JB to find appropriate "AS IS" "no endorsement" "no
guarantee" "no support" boilerplate.
Done (see ubl-ssc).
ACTION: JB to add language to ubl-ssc noting that the materials
linked from there are merely resources and that the TC is not
available to help with deployment.
OTHER BUSINESS
TM: Note that Fremantle is not in the same time zone as
Singapore this year.
TM: Need to restart the customization work by reminding
(informing?) MG and MC that they own the document in progress.
JB: Will put on agendas for next week.
Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC
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