Report from Chairman

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Report from Chairman

• Structure of the meeting
• Progress against targets
• Work Programme
• ISO issues
• Liaison opportunities
• MoU/MG
• TC184
• Vacancies
• Challenges for the week

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Structure of the week

• Status documents available in advance
• Lists of publications and ballots
• National reports by request only
• Liaison arrangements
• Brief reports on Monday
• Liaison plenary on Wednesday
• SC4 plenary on Friday
• Closing technical plenary 0800-1000
• SC4 meeting 1030
• Thursday - 2005 International Forum on Standards
  and Application of Manufacturing Product data
  technology (2005IFSAMP)
• Friday - Industrial Workshop on Product/Property
  Dictionary Standards

3
Challenges from Valencia

• Project targets as declared to the Secretariat
• Less than 5 of projects delayed
• AP221, AP227ed 2, AP239, AP240, PAS 20542, 22720
  published
• Outstanding modules published
• Part 28 ed 2 for DIS ballot
• Agreement with TC10 on NWI, 16792
• Supplementary Directives update out for ballot
• New set of marketing deliverables
• Report of task force on dictionaries
• SC4 MA proposal/database business case drafted
• PAFOC proposal for AP203
• 13584-501 Registration Authority in place
• JWG1 draft documents available
• SASIG PDQ harvesting complete - 26183
• Strategy for harmonisation with core components

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Work Programme Highlights

• PLCS published as AP239
• AP236 accepted
• AP210 ed 2 modules accepted as TS
• Modules for AP221 and AP236 in publication
• MANDATE part 43 accepted
• PSL Parts 14, 41, 42 accepted
• IFC 2.x published as ISO PAS 16739
• ASAM ODS 5.0 about to be published as ISO PAS
  22720
• SASIG PDQ Guidelines accepted as ISO PAS 26183

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Project Management

• ISO work programme extracts now available online
  -
• Critical - risk of automatic cancellation in 6
  months
• Warning - risk of cancellation in 1 year
• Cancelled in last year - could be restarted
• Extracted and loaded on SC4ONLINE
• Synchronised with SC4 database

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Project Management

• Project updates in advance
• 289 tasks in work programme
• Systematic reviews completed NWI option
• Tasks showing late/missing information
• 82 modules and 12 other parts in ISO publication
• AP 219, AP233, AP238
• 10303-28 ed 2, -107
• Three CFD parts 10303-52, 53, 110 stalled
• Final dates needed for 13584-501, -511 and
  15926-3
• Project updates will be sought during the meeting
• Ron Kolakowski has the database

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Cancellations by ISO

• Cancelled in October 10303-237
• Due for cancellation December 10303-52,-53,-110
• Due for cancellation March 2006 20542
• Missed FDIS date 13584-511
• Three month period of grace for DIS

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Key ISO developments

• New ISO Directives
• Part 1 PPC/secretariat to look at process
  impact
• Part 2 incorporated in Supplementary Directives
  draft
• My ISO job booklet for delegates
• Project management framework under development
• Committee updates
• Internal Committee balloting
• Move to Global Directory maintained by NSBs in
  July 2005

9
ISO publication process

• Process improvements
• ISO editors to help SC4 to maintain SDs to be
  fully compliant with ISO Directives
• ISO editors to review documents before submission
• Aim is to minimise editorial intervention
• Need to sort requirement for individual DIS
• HTML
• Agreed for publication
• Need process refinement in SC4
• SD updates to reflect final decisions
• Possible use of CSS for harvested documents

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New ISO PDF rules

• ITSIG has concluded that the following be applied
  henceforth
• Acrobat version 4.05 and above may be used
• Distillation of files shall be to PDF
  compatibility level 1.3
• to allow for the addition of digital rights
  management features, PDF files may be edited and
  saved as PDF version 1.5
• The ISO/CS will thus accept PDF files up to and
  including PDF version 1.5 provided that they have
  been distilled to PDF compatibility level 1.3

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ISO on the Web

• URN specification produced to reflect all
  feasible standards structures, including
  Amendments, TCs, new editions, joint ISO/IEC
  standards, etc, etc
• Ed Barkmeyer produced RFC submission draft
• ISO submission still under internal review
• Three TCs now pressing for solution
• MIME types
• Need publicly available, downloadable FOC
  specifications
• Need to be justified to ISO Council

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ISO marketing strategy

• Range of products
• Modules to be published individually, followed by
  CD-ROM package of AP and modules
• Niche market packages of APs
• STEP CD-ROM
• Any proposal for free-of-charge standards would
  need to be clearly and simply presented,
  addressing
• the impact on promoting the implementation of the
  standards
• the possible impact on NSB revenue

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Project Issues

• SC4 future work programme
• Ballot results on ISO 8000
• Discussion on modules process (WG3/WG12)
• Attribute slots in Modular ARMs
• Use of URN/URI - issue from David Leal
• AP214/AP224 conflict on gears
• Supplementary directives update
• Change Management for modules implementation
• Maintenance agency for reference data libraries
• Business and governance models MA/RA
• Link to ISO databases approach
• Link to ebXML core components

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MoU/MG matters

• Met 13-14 October in Beijing
• Continuing strong representation from ISO, ITU,
  UN/CEFACT, OASIS, OAGIS, EAN, SWIFT, CEN/ISSS
• IEC?
• Strong response from IEC TC93
• Integrated standards view of eBusiness to be
  completed by mid-November
• Next meeting in Vancouver after next SC4 session
• Howard Mason nominated by CEFACT for further
  two-year term letter ballot

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Current MoU/MG issues (1)

• Framework for eBusiness standards
• Includes CEFACT and OASIS models
• Actively supported by NIST eBSC activity
• Aligned with open-edi model
• Open registry for eBusiness standards work
• Metadata and mechanism to be defined
• Need federated approach, with moderation for
  consistency
• ANSI offering to host
• All members to highlight relevant NWI for
  visibility

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Semantics - Terminology
Scenarios
Service assembly
10
Consraints
Contractual and regulatory
Security
Registry/Repostory for Discovery, Presence,
Availability
7
Conformance and interoperability testing
Process models
Information content/components Classification
schemes Component libraries Enterprise data and
metadata Reference data Identifiers
Data Assembly
37
29
3
8
13
14
15
24
19
11
16
9
17
Process definition mechanisms
Information definition mechanisms
4
5
32
Service definition mechanisms
26
18
23
Representation options
27
28
Transport options
30
35
34
22
Networks
31
38
Guidelines
Physical representation
20
n is row number in eBSC matrix
n
Rev 4 2005-06-10
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Current MoU/MG issues (2)

• Information architecture
• Product classification schemes
• e-Catalogues/Dictionaries - JWG1 defining
  consistent structure and content based on PLIB
  (ISO 13584/IEC61360)
• Enterprise information models
• Master data/code lists - repositories of valid
  values to support core components - multilingual
  support needed
• Terminology
• Federated structure of definition databases
• Appropriate business model for free downloads
  from the web
• Semantic interoperability principles document
  agreed (N221)

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Current MoU/MG issues (3)

• ebXML Core Components methods and procedures
• First four ebXML specifications from OASIS
  adopted as ISO 15000
• CCTS 2.01 from CEFACT adopted as ISO 15000-5
• Updates to be forwarded for ISO standardisation
• Agreement to focus core component development
  through CEFACT TBG17 - OASIS, OAGIS 9.0, AIAG,
  CEFACT,.
• Core component open development process to be
  clearly articulated by March 2006, based on
  initial experience with UBL and TDED components
• Naming and Design Rules being harmonised between
  UBL and the other groups
• Harmonisation of information modelling methods

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Current MoU/MG issues (4)

• Universal Business Language (UBL)
• Version 1.0 accepted as OASIS standard - may go
  to ISO
• Further development under CEFACT being negotiated
• Localisation in the Far East - opportunity for
  TC37
• Seen as short term document oriented solution
• Convergence with UNeDOCS and TDED to be explored
• Open tools for generating UN Layout Key documents
  and HTML forms
• Global name and address standards
• Multiple approaches to be considered in detail at
  the next meeting

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Current MoU/MG issues (5)

• Biometrics
• Secure container transportation
• Cultural diversity
• Recommendations to be taken into account on new
  standards, and incorporated in JWG1 guidance
  draft checklist to be reviewed (N222)
• Web services
• Consistent URN for standards
• Urgent requirement for resolution
• ISO/IEC Strategic Advisory Group on Security
• eBusiness related issues identified
• Data protection/privacy requirements to be
  defined by government bodies, for action by
  standards groups
• EU/US group on ICT regulation

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TC184 plenary

• Next meeting 24-25 October 2005, Beijing
• Advisory Group meets 22 October
• PPC and Convenors to pursue free-of-charge
  strategy as endorsed by TC184
• PPC to consider results of SC5 strategy review
• Discussion on
• Improved relationships with TC154
• JWG1
• MoU/MG
• MAMI-TF
• BSAD follow-up
• Marketing data form
• Voting on second DIS

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Diagnostics and maintenance integration (MAMI-TF)

• TC 184 notes the potential synergy between the
  SC5/WG7 work on diagnostics and maintenance
  integration (ISO 18435), the SC4 work on product
  life cycle support (PLCS), the JWG8 work on
  resource management data modelling, and the SC1
  proposal for work on machine tool modelling, and
  requests each SC to nominate an appropriate
  expert to participate in a joint review of the
  respective areas of work, and requests its
  Advisory Group to recommend a harmonised approach
  to TC 184.
• SC4 to nominate PLCS expert to participate in
  review
• Various telecons held
• Interim report due to TC184 meeting

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Challenges for the week

• Modular issues
• Recovering programme slippages
• Future work programme
• Relationships between PLIB, eOTD, JWG1 and ISO
  8000
• Reference data governance
• Standards as databases
• Publicly available free of charge reference data
• Position for 10-11 November
• Education and Outreach
• Liaisons
• ..and all the work planned by the WGs!

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The big issues

• Future work programme
• Relationships between PLIB, eOTD, JWG1 and ISO
  8000
• Reference data governance
• Standards as databases
• Publicly available free of charge reference data
• Position for 10-11 November
• Education and Outreach
• Liaisons