Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 3|4 September 2007

[jon.bosak@sun.com]

MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING
TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 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

      Open Standards conference in Sydney 15-16 November, TM will
      attend: open-standards.com

   Subcommittee report: PSC

      JB/TM: Further progress of the PSC following the untimely
      death of chair Mark Leitch will be discussed at the TCLocal
      meeting in Stockholm.

   Subcommittee report: TSC

      AS: Will be meeting this week.

   Review of Atlantic call

      No comments.

   Support page submissions

      None this week.

UBL TC MEETING IN STOCKHOLM 24-28 SEPTEMBER 2007

   A placeholder for updates to the draft agenda:

      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200708/msg00029.html

2008 TC WORK SCHEDULE

   ACTION (8/14): JB to make a timeline that fits the work into
   the OASIS TC process.

      Pending.

2008 TC MEETING SCHEDULE

   28 Jan - 1 Feb 2008 in Manhattan (Hotel Bedford recommended)

      This date has now been confirmed.  Participants can (and
      probably should) begin making travel plans.  Note that hotel
      rates will be substantially higher closer to the meeting date.

   March 2008 in Rome (together with UBL International Day)

      Discussion still in progress among the organizers of the ID.

   August 2008 in Montréal

      Two possibilities: the week of 4 August or the week of 11
      August, depending on the scheduling of the Extreme Markup
      Languages conference the week before.

   January 2009 in Fremantle

      Still tentative.

UPDATE PACKAGE

   See

      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200708/msg00035.html

   1. Regarding the items listed under "Suspected original and
      localization spreadsheet DEN errors"

      GKH: These are self-consistency errors; either the DEN is
      not properly assembled from its components, or the
      components are in error.

      TM: Note that the DENs in the spreadsheets are not
      normative.  The DENs in the schemas were generated by GEFEG
      FX directly from the CCTS model.

      ACTION: GKH to confirm programatically that the corrected
      DENs listed in msg00035.html above match the DENs in the
      schema files.

      ACTION: TM to check the proposed corrections to the DEN
      components.

   2. Regarding items 1 and 2 under "Code list errors"

      TM/AS: There are new standard versions of the Unit of
      Measure and Transportation Status code lists on the UNECE
      website.

      Discussion: We will need to be clear on the difference
      between validation and code list checking.  The code lists
      themselves are not normative.  Users must be aware of the
      benefits and risks of including code list metadata for each
      code in document instances.  GKH has examples in his
      tutorial that we can use in the Update Package to explain
      this.

      Future action: Someone (probably TM) will eventually need to
      create new gc versions of the UnitOfMeasure,
      TransportStatus, and Port code lists.  No deadline yet.

      ACTION: JB to update the update list.

CL TRANSFER (TRACKING)

   Impact on the Update Package of the CLR TC decision to take
   over the CL Methodology work.

   GKH: Primary impacts will be:

    - New 1.0 genericode versions of all the code lists

    - Inclusion of context value association files (postpone till
      CLR TC comes out with methodology spec)

   Assume GKH for these work items (no deadline yet).

PACIFIC ACTION ITEMS FROM MANHATTAN (TRACKING)

   ACTION: PSC and TSC to provide feedback on UBL 2.0 SBS 2.0:

      http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/23873

      Pending.

   ACTION: PSC and TSC to summarize business rules that are (1)
   wanted in UBL but not allowed by [i.e., capable of being
   addressed by] the NDR (e.g., requirement to include one of
   PartyName and PartyIdentifier but not both) and (2) data items
   whose constraints are inherited from another standard (e.g.,
   lengths of data items specified by UNTDED); the rules so
   identified to become candidates for a list of schematron
   assertions "recommended to be included" (final characterization
   TBD).

      Pending.

TC CONCALL SCHEDULE

   As always, the UBL TC will not hold conference calls the weeks
   before and after the next f2f.  Therefore, our concall schedule
   for the next few weeks is as follows:

      Week of 09/03: Pacific and Atlantic calls as usual
      Week of 09/10: Pacific and Atlantic calls as usual
      Week of 09/17: NO PHONE MEETINGS
      Week of 09/24: NO PHONE MEETINGS (F2F IN STOCKHOLM)
      Week of 10/01: NO PHONE MEETINGS
      Week of 10/08: Pacific and Atlantic calls as usual

OTHER BUSINESS

   JB: Possible speaking opportunity at December conference in
   Bangalore.

   ACTION: JB to put TM in contact with organizers.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC