Agenda for Pacific UBL TC call 05 March 2024 21:00UTC

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

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Referencing the specification

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

OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) v2.4

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 2.4 documents are available in the OASIS repository:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs01-UBL-2.4/

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

Anything to add?

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/202402/msg00018.html

Review of Atlantic call minutes

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/202402/msg00020.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

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

Kenneth Bengtsson

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

Erlend Klakegg Bergheim

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

Peter Borresen

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

Andrea Caccia

Paul Donohoe

Kees Duvekot

Member OASIS BDXR, Member of the NEN TC 434

Sander Fieten

Cochair OASIS ebXML Messaging Services TC, Cochair OASIS BDXR TC

Ken Holman

Member OASIS BDXR, member OASIS Code List Representation TC

Yves Jordan

Ole Madsen

DK Member CEN/TC440

Levine Naidoo

Member OASIS BDXR, Observer OASIS ebXML

Members losing voting status after this meeting:

Erlend Klakegg Bergheim

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.

New OASIS community Workspace and TC website

See: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/202403/msg00000.html

The new UBL TC website is here: https://groups.oasis-open.org/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=556949c8-dac8-40e6-bb16-018dc7ce54d6

And the new TC email address is this one: oasis-ubl@ConnectedCommunity.org

UBL 2.4

A Special Majority Vote to approve submitting UBL 2.4 CS01 to the OASIS membership as a candidate for OASIS Standard has been requested. Status can be followed here: https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/TCADMIN-4478

UBL 2.5

Deprecation Policy

The TC has approved a UBL Deprecation Policy version 1.0 available here:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=71497&wg_abbrev=ubl (PDF)

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=71496&wg_abbrev=ubl (ODT)

Publishing tools

Implement deprecation support in the UBL tools and publishing environment.

Erlend has presented a strawman proposal for a YAML-format for documenting 2.5 work: https://github.com/klakegg/oasis-ubl-model. Agreed that the functionality added by a structured format adds value, not least when adding the complexity of deprecated components. A “front end” layer will be needed for business users to maintain the files.

Master spreadsheets for UBL 2.5 are available here:

Library elements: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18o1YqjHWUw0-s8mb3ja4i99obOUhs-4zpgso6RZrGaY/

Document elements: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1024Th-Uj8cqliNEJc-3pDOR7DxAAW7gCG4e-pbtarsg/

Ken has created a list of changes based on Definition and Cardinality that can be used to populate the “Last change” column: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/202401/msg00013.html. Kenneth will work on updating the spreadsheet models.

Workgroup participants: Erlend and Kees.

Semantic library review

Documents reviewed by the TC:

ApplicationResponse

AttachedDocument

DocumentStatus

DocumentStatusRequest

UBL 2.5 issues:

UBL-357, ESG Information elements:

https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/UBL-357

Ole reported that the Danish authorities are initiating work with product passport and other ESG reporting

Input from Levine here:

https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/UBL-357?focusedCommentId=84141&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-84141

https://issues.oasis-open.org/secure/attachment/12125/UBL%202.5%20Library%20Elements%20Spreadsheet%20-%20PCF%20Elements.xlsx

Kenneth will create a first draft for UBL 2.5 based on Levine’s data model.

Erlend will set up a new Github branch to allow us to test the PCF data model.

Digital product passport discussion:

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/202401/msg00018.html

The TC agrees that UBL shall facilitate the requirements of the digital product passport. A new Product Passport document type will be developed for UBL 2.5.

The requirements are not entirely clear yet. It is anticipated that the EU will send out request for standardization this year.

CEN/CENELEC has established JTC 24 to work on the digital product passport. The UBL TC ideally would like to establish a formal liaison with JTC 24, however, the establishing of a formal way to liaise with CEN at committee level is still pending.

Kenneth will open a new ticket to track work on the product passport data model. Peter volunteered to be assigned the ticket.

UBL-375, Standardize use of ApplicationResponse, DocumentStatus, EnquiryResponse, DocumentStatusRequest, and Enquiry:

https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/UBL-375

Identified that the use of ApplicationResponse in the Billing diagrams (figures 77, 78 and 79) is incorrect. Kenneth will open a separate ticket.

UBL-376, Deprecate AttachedDocument document type:

https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/UBL-376

Cecile will reach out to the European Commission to ask for the status of its use.

UBL-377, new InvoiceResponse document type:

https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/UBL-377

Agreed to review supplementary components at our next face-to-face meeting, i.e., the XML attributes listed here: https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs01-UBL-2.4/UBL-2.4.html#T-UBL-UNQUALIFIED-DATA-TYPES

Can we make a tool that users can run in their local environments to create a report about the use of supplementary components?

Creating a stylesheet to extract the information is simple, but how do we get it out to the users? And what will we use the results for?

Peter will contact users of UBL to assess how much information we would be able to harvest.

Specification review

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

Anything to report?

UBL Pre-award

Cecile will send a list of change requests and observations for the semantic library review.

Cecile is leaving the TC and stepping down as subcommittee chair. Candidates for the pre-award SC chair?

Anything to report?

UBL Transportation Subcommittee (TSC)

Anything to report?

Organisation Master Data Subcommittee

Anything to report?

Payments and Finance SC

Anything to report?

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)

Decision to appoint Andrea as liaison representative between ISO TC 323 (WG5) and the TC recorded here: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/202402/msg00004.html

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?

Spring meeting:

Budapest

Confirmed that the MSZT (Hungarian standardization body) will host our face-to-face meeting in Budapest.

Meeting will commence May 27 midday, so that participants can travel in the morning.

May 27-30, 2024

Craft Conference will be held the same week, May 30-31 (https://craft-conf.com/2024)

XML Prague is the following week, June 6-8 (https://www.xmlprague.cz)

Fall meeting:

Invitation from Logius to meet in The Hague

Peter suggested that Logius could host us back-to-back to a general UBL conference. Peter will follow up.

Dates? For example, after Declarative Amsterdam, for example November 11-14 2024?

Call schedule

Kenneth proposes to temporarily suspend the Pacific calls while we have no participants from the Pacific region. Pacific calls after March 5 will tentatively be canceled.

2024-03-05/2024-03-06

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

Atlantic: 09:00MSP/10:00Ottawa/15:00UTC/16:00Europe

2024-03-12/2024-03-13

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

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

2024-03-19/2024-03-20

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

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

2024-03-26/2024-03-27

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

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

2024-04-02/2024-04-03

Pacific: 16:00MSP/23:00Europe/17:00Ottawa/21:00UTC/08:00Sydney