UBL TSC Report

1
OASIS UBL TC Singapore Meeting
UBL TSC Report
November 6, 2006 Kamarudin Tambi Chair of OASIS
UBL TSC CrimsonLogic Pte Ltd.
kama_at_crimsonlogic.com
2
Members of TSC

• Kamarudin Tambi CrimsonLogic Pte Ltd
• Ralph Ho DTTN
• Tim McGrath UBL TC Vice Chair
• Eric Tesoro CrimsonLogic Pte Ltd.
• Ng Chi Yuen CECID HongKong (till end-Dec 05)
• Andrew Schoka USDOT Representative
• David Fitzpatrick Booz Allen Hamilton
• Mike Onder USDOT (guest)

Chair Co-Chair Members
3
Recent Activities (Weekly Concall)

• Six documents were included in the UBL 2.0
  public review
• Packing List, Forwarding Instruction
• Bill of Lading, Waybill
• Certificate of Origin, Freight Invoice
• Transport Status
• Develop sample XML instance for Forwarding
  Instruction, Transport Status and Certificate of
  Origin (to be further improved)
• Develop the initial UBL Basic International
  Trade Scenario
• Derived from Denmarks OIOUBL document
• Work in progress
• Review and provide TBG3s Resolution 3

4
UBL BITS

• Basic International Trade Scenario
• Describes the business scenario related to the
  UBL Basic International Trade process
• Provided to demonstrate a basic, and therefore
  theoretical, use of UBL document exchanges
• Contains sample parties and sample data
• Work in progress

5
TBG3s Resolution 3 Cooperation with OASIS/UBL
Transportation Subcommittee on UBL release 2.0

• TBG3 has acknowledged the release of UBL 2.0
  published for a second public review period and
  is disappointed that a number of fundamental
  issues raised by TBG3 at the January 2006 first
  review period, are still pending for
  consideration within the next UBL 3.0 release.
  TBG 3 will only be able to concur with the
  Transport related parts of any UBL releases
  provided that the requirements of TBG3 are
  fulfilled in terms of the consistency between UBL
  business processes and data models and the
  TBG3/UNeDocs BRS and Core Components data model.
  TBG3 resolves to invite the UBL-TSC to
  participate in its work and TBG3 will communicate
  any deliverables produced to UBL.
• TBG3 stresses again the need that TBG/FMG
  concludes the agreement between OASIS/UBL and
  UN/CEFACT regarding their overall working
  relationship.

6
Response to TBG3s Resolution 3

• The UBL Transportation Subcommittee is surprised
  and also disappointed that we have failed to
  communicate our intention with regard to
  accommodating the concerns of TBG3 following the
  recent public review of UBL version 2.0.  Given
  our limited time and resources we have had to
  restrict the scope of the business processes
  covered by UBL 2.0.  This is not to say we do not
  recognize the limitations TBG3 have identified,
  only that we could not address them in a
  meaningful way in time to meet the UBL 2.0
  schedule.  In fact, UBL version 2.0 is now
  completed and currently being ratified by OASIS,
  to be published in December 2006.It is
  regrettable but true that the participants in the
  UBL Transportation Subcommittee are mostly self
  funded and so attending face-to-face meetings is
  not always feasible.   This has been
  unfortunate.  For example, had UBL been able to
  participate in the recent Barcelona meeting of
  TBG3 we might have avoided such a
  misunderstanding of our intentions. Be assured,
  UBL is committed to moving its work into CEFACT. 
  We believe we have a formal agreement with the
  CEFACT Plenary to do this. Accordingly, the UBL
  Transportation Subcommittee is committed to
  working collaboratively with TBG3 on future
  developments, and wishes to work together to find
  constructive ways to do so given the practical
  difficulties of face-to-face meetings.One such
  development could be the extension and refinement
  of the Transportation Status document.  This
  appears to be a worthwhile task that would allow
  us to take an existing UBL document together with
  implementation experience from the US Dept. of
  Transport's EFM project and develop both a
  business process and data model consistent with
  both TBG3 and UN/eDocs.  The resulting artifacts
  can then be submitted as UN/CEFACT deliverables. 
  Such a work programme mirrors a similar
  collaboration between UBL and TBG1.To conclude,
  the UBL Transportation Subcommittee takes
  Resolution 3 from your Barcelona meeting very
  seriously.  Whilst we do not believe we have
  acted incorrectly in these matters, we do believe
  a more proactive approach in communicating our
  intentions accurately is essential.

7

• Thank you