Corrected minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 10|11 September 2007

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MINUTES OF PACIFIC UBL TC MEETING
TUESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2007

ATTENDANCE

   Jon Bosak (chair)
   G. Ken Holman
   Andy Schoka
   Tim McGrath (vice chair)

STANDING ITEMS

   Additions to the calendar:
      http://ibiblio.org/bosak/ubl/calendar.htm

      None.

   Subcommittee report: PSC

      A meeting has been called for 17 September.

   Subcommittee report: TSC

      AS: Working constructively on Danish transportation
      requirements.  TM has prepared and posted some material for
      review showing how info items added to the shipment and
      consignment object classes can move us from the current UBL
      model of one shipment equals one consignment to a model that
      supports one-to-many in both directions.

      In answer to a question from AS, GKH demonstrated how google
      spreadsheets can be used to support real-time distributed
      editing of the data models.  The service is free and appears
      to work extremely well.  It was agreed that this is a real
      breakthrough in enabling collaborative review of proposed
      data models during conference calls without the overhead of
      webex sessions.

   Review of Atlantic call

      GKH: WRT the namespace proposal:

         http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200709/msg00004.html

      The biggest argument against both name- and namespace-based
      filtering is changes in cardinality.

      No other comments.

   Support page submissions

      No external submissions this week.

      ACTION: GKH to submit a revised description of the Crane
      resources, JB to update Support Page accordingly.

UBL TC MEETING IN STOCKHOLM 24-28 SEPTEMBER 2007

   A placeholder for updates to the draft agenda:

      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200709/msg00008.html

2008 TC WORK SCHEDULE

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

   A discussion concluded that we have so much new material for
   UBL 2.1 that we might as well go ahead and roll the Update
   Package into that release.

   AGREED to set the Manhattan TC meeting (2008.01.28-02.01) as
   the target for the first draft of 2.1 spreadsheets and updates,
   with the intention of reviewing the drafts at that meeting and
   coming out of it ready to begin initial schema production using
   Ubler.

   ACTION: JB to deliver project timeline (including the former
   pieces of the Update Package) by COB 21 September.

UPDATE PACKAGE

   All items relating to the Update Package are now part of 2.1.

UPDATE ITEM FROM MANHATTAN

   Moved here from the Atlantic agenda.

   ACTION: GKH to write up the "Candidate Decision Regarding Code
   List Support" as amended 10 May 2007.

   AGREED that this document appears to be irrelevant in the
   current cycle given the decision to roll the update into 2.1.
   However, it will need to be revisited for interim updates
   following the release of 2.1.

CL TRANSFER (TRACKING)

   ACTION: JB to add to the update work list the items relating to
   the CLR TC decision to take over the CL Methodology work.

   Revised: Include these items in the 2.1 project matrix.

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.

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).

      AGREED that this is now of higher priority than the
      preceding item and should be done as part of 2.1 model
      specification (using the column "analyst's notes").

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 09/17: 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

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC