OASIS UBL TC Meeting

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OASIS UBL TC Meeting
Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems Chair, OASIS UBL
Technical Committee Opening Plenary Burlington,
Massachusetts 1 October 2002
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Agenda

• Roll call
• Orientation
• SC updates (Maler, McGrath, Probert, Gregory,
  Bosak)
• CCTS update
• Discussion of role of CCTS in UBL
• Discussion of UN/CEFACT proposal
• Discussion of deliverable suite and schedule
• Segue to Joint NDR/LC session

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Data standards 3300 BC
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EDI, ebXML, UBL
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UBL and vertical standards
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UBL as a hub format
One adapter interfaces each party to the common
suppliers ...
... or tax authorities or customs agents
or accountants ...
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Priorities for this meeting

• Resolve NDR issues
• Prepare to re-release Library with final form
  syntax
• Next meeting (18-21 November) prepare final form
  syntax

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Subcommittee reports

• Library Content
• Naming and Design Rules
• Tools and Techniques
• Context Drivers
• Context Methodology
• Administrative
• Marketing
• Liaison

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SC report Context Methodology

• Matt Gertner has resigned chairmanship
• Are there enough people willing to work on this
  right now, or shall we put CM on hold while we
  work on NDR and LC?

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SC report Administrative

• Preliminary comment our technical subcommittee
  work is world class!
• We have a new set of meeting/membership rules
• Im now going to start warning and then
  eliminating nonactive members

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SC report Marketing

• CogniTran has agreed to print brochures for the
  XML 2002 conference (at which I will be
  keynoting)
• I have a pending AI to draft a UBL brochure
• This will be reviewed by the MSC via email

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SC report Liaison (1)

• Good news great liaison membership
• ACORD (insurance)
• ARTS (retail sales)
• e.centre (UK ecommerce standards)
• EIDX (electronics)
• HL7 (healthcare)
• NACS (convenience stores)
• RosettaNet (information technology)
• SWIFT (banking)
• VCA (optical supplies)
• XBRL (accounting)
• X12 (EDI)
• UN/EDIFACT (EDI)

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SC report Liaison (2)

• Bad (?) news not much input this review cycle
• Short review cycle (and false start)
• Did not align gracefully with the various meeting
  schedules
• The vertical industry standards organizations are
  experiencing the same resource problems as the
  rest of us
• Twenty years of EDI, four years of xCBL, and a
  year of UBL hasnt left much to add to the
  components
• I think that input will vastly increase once we
  turn early implementers loose on some finished
  schemas
• Silver lining we can concentrate on finishing
  NDR

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This weeks agenda

• Tuesday Joint NDR/LC 3-5 p.m.
• Wednesday SC breakouts 9-3, joint 3-5 lunch
  1230-130
• Thursday SC breakouts 9-3, joint 3-5 lunch
  1230-130 wine cheese 5-6 dinner
• Friday SC breakouts 9-12 lunch 12-1 joint 1-3,
  plenary 3-5
• Saturday Leave town