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Subject: UBL v2.0 Submitted for OASIS Standard
OASIS Members: The OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) Technical Committee has submitted the following specification set, which is an approved Committee Specification, to be considered as an OASIS Standard: OASIS Universal Business Language v2.0 The text of the TC submission is appended. You now have until 15 November to familiarize yourself with the submission and provide input to your organization's voting representative. On 16 November, a Call For Vote will be issued to all Voting Representatives of OASIS member organizations. They will have until the last day of November, inclusive, to cast their ballots on whether this Committee Specification should be approved as an OASIS Standard or not. Members who wish to discuss this ballot may do so through member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org. In accordance with the OASIS Technical Committee Process, this Committee Specification has already completed the necessary 60-day public review period, as well as two additional 15-day public review periods, as noted in the submission below. The normative TC Process for approval of Committee Specifications as OASIS Standards is found at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#3.4 Any statements related to the IPR of this specification are posted at: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/ipr.php Your participation in the review and balloting process is greatly appreciated. Mary Mary P McRae Manager of TC Administration, OASIS email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org phone: 603.232.9090 ----------------------- (a) Links to the approved Committee Specification in the TC's document repository The approved Committee Specification can be found at http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs-UBL-2.0/ http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs-UBL-2.0.zip (b) The editable version of all files that are part of the Committee Specification See links above. (c) Certification by the TC that all schema and XML instances included in the specification, whether by inclusion or reference, including fragments of such, are well formed, and that all expressions are valid The schemas and instances have been extensively tested. The release package contains a test harness that demonstrates validation against sample documents. (d) A clear English-language summary of the specification See http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs-UBL-2.0/UBL-2.0.html#INTRO (e) A statement regarding the relationship of this specification to similar work of other OASIS TCs or other standards developing organizations UBL 2.0 supersedes an existing OASIS Standard, UBL 1.0. (f) Certification by at least three OASIS member organizations that they are successfully using the specification The following OASIS member organizations have certified to me that they are successfully using UBL 2.0: Sun Microsystems OSS Nokalva Cognitran Booz Allen Hamilton Messages to this effect are archived at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/20683/ubl-use.zip (g) The beginning and ending dates of the public review(s), a pointer to the announcement of the public review(s), and a pointer to an account of each of the comments/issues raised during the public review period(s), along with its resolution UBL 2.0 has completed three formal public reviews. Public review number 1 (20 January 2006 - 21 March 2006) Announcement: http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200601/msg00008.html Comment dispositions: Comments received on PRD1 are archived at the comment site cited below. Changes resulting from input received are documented in the change log at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/19354/ChangeLogPRD1-to-PRD2.zi p Public review number 2 (28 July 2006 - 12 August 2006) Announcement: http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200607/msg00016.html Comment dispositions: No substantive comments were received during the review period. One comment suggested editorial corrections that were incorporated into the revised draft. Changes made to PRD2 are documented in the change log at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/20369/ChangeLogPRD2-to-PRD3.zi p Public review number 3 (21 September 2006 - 6 October 2006) Announcement: http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200609/msg00020.html Comment dispositions: No comments relating to the third UBL 2.0 public review draft were received during the review period. (h) An account of and results of the voting to approve the specification as a Committee Specification, including the date of the ballot and a pointer to the ballot Voting to approve UBL 2.0 as an OASIS Committee Specification began 5 October 2006 and ended 12 October 2006. One hundred percent of the voting members of the UBL TC voted to approve. The ballot can be found at http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ubl/ballot.php?id=1125 (i) An account of or pointer to votes and comments received in any earlier attempts to standardize substantially the same specification, together with the originating TC's response to each comment No prior attempts have been made to standardize UBL 2.0. UBL 1.0 was ratified as an OASIS Standard in November 2004. (j) A pointer to the publicly visible comments archive for the originating TC The UBL comments archive is located at http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-comment/ (k) A pointer to any minority reports submitted by one or more Members who did not vote in favor of approving the Committee Specification, which report may include statements regarding why the member voted against the specification or that the member believes that Substantive Changes were made which have not gone through public review; or certification by the Chair that no minority reports exist No negative votes were received, and no minority reports were submitted. ====================================================== Jon Bosak, Distinguished Engineer, Corporate Standards Office of Global Government Strategy, Sun Microsystems Chair, OASIS UBL Technical Committee jon.bosak@sun.com http://www.sun.com/standards ======================================================
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