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30-day Public Review for #UBL Naming and Design Rules Version 3.0 – ends April 15th

The OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) TC [1] members have recently approved a Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted it for 30-day public review:

UBL Naming and Design Rules Version 3.0
Committee Specification Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01
04 February 2015

Overview:

This specification prescribes a set of naming and design rules used to create XML document model validation artefacts (W3C XSD schemas and OASIS Context/value association files) associated with abstract information bundles formally described using the ISO/TS 15000-5:2005 Core Component Technical Specification [CCTS – ISO/TS 15000-5:2005]. These rules are not limited only for use with UBL.

This work product also describes how, in particular, these rules were followed to create the information bundles and XML document model validation artefacts for UBL [UBL-2.1] documents and extensions starting with UBL version 2.1.

These rules can be followed to create any or all of the following:

– custom extensions for use with UBL documents; and

– custom standalone documents based on the UBL common library.

TC Description:

UBL, the Universal Business Language, is the product of an international effort to define a royalty-free library of standard electronic XML business documents such as purchase orders and invoices. Developed in an open and accountable OASIS Technical Committee with participation from a variety of industry data standards organizations, UBL is designed to plug directly into existing business, legal, auditing, and records management practices, eliminating the re-keying of data in existing fax- and paper-based supply chains and providing an entry point into electronic commerce for small and medium-sized businesses.

Public Review Period:

The public review starts 17 March 2015 at 00:00 UTC and ends 15 April 2015 at 23:59 UTC.

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

URIs:

The prose specification document and related files are available here:

Editable source (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-NDR/v3.0/csprd01/UBL-NDR-v3.0-csprd01.xml

HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-NDR/v3.0/csprd01/UBL-NDR-v3.0-csprd01.html

PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-NDR/v3.0/csprd01/UBL-NDR-v3.0-csprd01.pdf

ZIP distribution file (complete):

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose document and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP file here:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-NDR/v3.0/csprd01/UBL-NDR-v3.0-csprd01.zip

Additional information about the specification and the UBL TC can be found at the TC’s public home page:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be used by following the instructions on the TC’s “Send A Comment” page, or directly at:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=ubl

Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public review of “UBL Naming and Design Rules Version 3.0”, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [2] applicable especially [3] to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member’s patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification.

OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC’s work.

========== Additional references:

[1]OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/

[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/ipr.php
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#s10.2.3
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