Minutes of Pacific UBL TC call 31 October 2023 21:00UTC

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2023-10-31T21:00:00

Pacific: 16:00MSP/22:00Europe/17:00Ottawa/21:00UTC/08:00Sydney

Participation

Todd Albers

Kenneth Bengtsson (chair)

Erlend Klakegg Bergheim

Kees Duvekot

Sander Fieten

Levine Naidoo

Referencing the specification

One of the following should be used as a specific citation:

- OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) v2.3

- OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) v2.2

- OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) v2.1 (ISO/IEC 19845:2015)

The following would be used for a general (any version) citation:

- OASIS UBL (ISO/IEC 19845)

The canonical 2.3 documents are available in the OASIS repository:

- http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.3/

The canonical 2.2 documents are available in the OASIS repository:

- http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.2/

The canonical 2.1 documents are available in the OASIS repository:

- http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.1/

The ISO/IEC catalogue entry for UBL 2.1 is found at:

- http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm/?csnumber=66370

The ISO/IEC document and attachments for UBL 2.1 are found at:

- http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/

Standing items

Additions to events calendar - http://ubl.xml.org/events

Nothing

Wikipedia page

Updates and maintenance of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Business_Language

Review of Pacific call minutes

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/202310/msg00016.html

Review of Atlantic call minutes

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/202310/msg00018.html

Membership status review

https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process#membership

New member orientation information:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=59647

Voting status is determined by the following:

- existing voting members must not miss two consecutive meetings to maintain voting status

- non-voting members must attend two consecutive meetings to obtain voting status

- members formally on leave by prior request must not attend and their voting status is not impacted

Current UBL TC voting member list (alphabetical):

- Todd Albers

o Member of X9, X12 B2X, ISO 20022 Payment SEG, OASIS BDXR, and convenor of the Business Payments Coalition e-Invoice work groups

- Kenneth Bengtsson

o Chair OASIS BDXR, Observer OASIS ebXML, DK Expert UN/CEFACT

- Erlend Klakegg Bergheim

o Member OASIS BDXR, Member OASIS ebXML Core & MS, Member CEN/TC434/WS8

- Peter Borresen

o DK Member CEN/TC440, Convenor CEN/TC440/WG7

- Andrea Caccia

- Kees Duvekot

o Member OASIS BDXR, Member of the Standaardisatieplatform e-factureren

- Sander Fieten

o Cochair OASIS ebXML Messaging Services TC, Cochair OASIS BDXR TC

- Ken Holman

o Member OASIS BDXR, member OASIS Code List Representation TC

- Yves Jordan

- Wim Kok

- Natalie Muric

- Levine Naidoo

o Member OASIS BDXR, Observer OASIS ebXML

Members losing voting status after this meeting:

- Erlend Klakegg Bergheim

- Natalie Muric

TC Vitality Check

The TC must next appoint or reappoint chair(s) in January 2025.

Next TC vitality check must be made in January 2025.

UBL 2.4

UBL 2.4 published as Committee Specification 01, see announcement: https://www.oasis-open.org/2023/10/27/universal-business-language-v2-4-from-the-ubl-tc-approved-as-a-committee-specification/

UBL 2.5

Deprecation Policy

A strawman proposal is being discussed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LdBt_U9Tsje2BJDjaKojTgu8thMmbx7FMf_EAjU26Eo

Discussed during last week’s Atlantic call that the deprecation policy should include a statement that new syntax bindings (ie., JSON) are not bound to the same backwards compatibility constraints as XML and therefore do not need to contain deprecated components.

Agreed to finalize the policy document this week.

Agreed to adopt the above UBL Deprecation Policy by all participants at the Pacific call. Pending Atlantic call approval.

Agreed to create an additional Governance section on the TC homepage with links to governance documents, such as the deprecation policy.

Work group participants: Erlend, Kees, Kenneth, Levine, Sander, Todd, and Wim.

Semantic library review

Review the UBL semantic library to identify document types and BIEs that can be deprecated as well as definitions that can be improved, either to fix errors, because they are redundant or no longer needed, or to enhance interoperability between implementations.

Workgroup participants: Entire TC. Responsibilities see: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f0yyWMLK9wAWEjEKgsoXT7eov9h5bx6qxROBZP_qu7M

Update UBL publishing tools

Implement deprecation support in the UBL tools and publishing environment.

Ken has updated https://github.com/oasis-tcs/ubl-codelists with the latest version of his tool to harvest code lists. Additional information: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/202310/msg00011.html

Workgroup participants: Erlend and Kees.

Update specification

Divide specification into multiple parts. Aim is to create a multipart specification.

Kenneth will identify the normative parts of the prose specification and create a first draft.

Workgroup participants: Kees, Kenneth, Levine, and Paul.

JSON syntax binding

Develop specification for a UBL JSON syntax binding.

Workgroup participants: Erlend and Kenneth.

Subcommittee reports

UBL Post-award

Nothing

UBL Pre-award

Nothing

UBL Transportation Subcommittee (TSC)

Launch of public feedback period for first eFTI draft implementing act, see: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-tsc/202310/msg00000.html

Organisation Master Data Subcommittee

Nothing

TC Liaisons

CEN TCs 434 and 440

Agreed at the Copenhagen face-to-face meeting that the UBL TC is open to establish a formal liaison with CEN TC 434 to create a European or international standard for electronic invoicing, if there is an interest from the CEN TC.

OASIS has reported that there is an agreement on a way forward. The TC has agreed to appoint Wim Kok liaison officer to the CEN TC 434, and Peter Borresen as liaison officer to the CEN TC 440, as recorded here: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/202301/msg00017.html. The appointments have been communicated to OASIS.

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32/WG 1

Decision to appoint Andrea as liaison representative between ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 and the TC recorded here: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/202007/msg00014.html

Last year’s SC 32 meeting was held on June 2022. OASIS should have been following up with the SC 32 secretariat last year but still no progress. Jamie will follow up with SC 32.

ISO TC 323 (WG5)

Cecile is available to serve as liaison officer between ISO TC 323 (WG5) and the UBL TC for facilitating work on the PCDS, under the condition that there is no requirement to join ISO through a national SDO.

The TC has agreed to appoint Cecile Guasch as liaison officer to ISO TC 323, as recorded here: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/202302/msg00000.html. The appointments have been communicated to OASIS.

Subcommittee conference calls

- Subcommittees will be meeting on an as-required basis.

TC conference call schedule

Face-to-face meeting

Time and venue for next face-to-face meeting?

- May 27-30, 2024?

- Budapest

o Possibility to be hosted by the MSZT (Hungarian standardization body)

Call schedule

2023-10-31/2023-11-01

- Pacific: 16:00MSP/22:00Europe/17:00Ottawa/21:00UTC/08:00Sydney

- Atlantic: 10:00MSP/11:00Ottawa/15:00UTC/16:00Europe

2023-11-08/2023-11-09

- Pacific: 15:00MSP/22:00Europe/16:00Ottawa/21:00UTC/08:00Sydney