Report from Chairman

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Report from Chairman

• Structure of the meeting
• Progress against targets
• Work Programme
• ISO matters
• Liaison opportunities
• 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 Japan,
  Portugal, UK, US
• Liaison arrangements
• Brief reports on Monday
• Liaison plenary on Wednesday
• SC4 plenary on Friday
• Closing technical plenary 0800-1000
• SC4 meeting 1030

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Special for this week

• Joint with ECCMA on Wednesday and Thursday
• Liaison plenary joint session with ECCMA
• SC1 meeting on Friday

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Challenges from Toulouse

• Project targets as declared to the Secretariat
• - Less than 5 of projects delayed
• AP221, AP236, PAS 20542, 26183, AP210 modules
  published
• Draft of AP233 out for CD
• AP 210ed 2, AP235 DIS out for ballot
• 13584-501 and -511 submitted to ISO
• Initial parts of 22745 completed
• JWG1 documents ensure adequate national review
• Coherent NWI on catalogue XML and Web services
  accepted
• Supplementary Directives update out for ballot
• ISO TMB Standards as Databases proposal for FOC
  access
• SC4 MA proposal/database business case drafted
• PAFOC proposal for AP203
• Harvesting proposals for STEP-TAS and STEP-NRF

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Work Programme Highlights

• 582 documents published or in publication
• 374 standards published
• 208 in publication process
• AP210 modules delivered for editorial review
• Part 28 ed 2 completed DIS ballot
• AP236 in final editing for publication
• AP238 signed off
• 10303-107 published
• PLIB -501 and -511 in publication
• All PSL parts published
• MANDATE published
• PAS 20542 in publication
• SASIG PDQ Guidelines published 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
• 235 tasks in ISO work programme
• Systematic reviews completed NWI option
• Five NWI out for ballot others expected
• Tasks showing late/missing information - 18
• Part 28e2
• AP 203e2, AP210e2, AP219, AP221, AP233, AP235
• All 22745 parts
• 15926-3, -4
• 13584-42e2
• Project updates will be sought during the meeting
• Ron Kolakowski has the database

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Cancellations by ISO

• DIS/FDIS dates fixed in ISO database for NWI
• Three month period of grace for DIS delivery
• Great care needed as projects approach targets
• No new cancellations
• 15926-4 hits two-year rule in January 2007
• Work programme extracts now available online -
  updated daily
• Critical
• Warning
• Cancelled in last year
• Extracted and loaded on SC4ONLINE

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Key ISO developments

• New ISO Technical Officer Atsuko Saruhashi
  (ex-JISC)
• Sophie Clivio in charge of management standards
  from January
• Latest ISO Directives
• Part 1 PPC/secretariat to look at process
  impact
• Part 2 incorporated in Supplementary Directives
  draft
• Systematic reviews to be launched by ISO CS
• SVAT terminated with immediate effect in July
• Change management form updated
• ISO seeking case studies and value propositions
  for the benefits of standardisation

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ISO publication process

• Process improvements
• ISO editor (Brian Stanton) to help SC4 to
  maintain SDs to be fully compliant with ISO
  Directives and practice
• ISO editor reviews documents before submission (2
  wks)
• Aim is to minimise editorial intervention
• Need to sort requirement for individual DIS of
  module
• Some SD updates incorporated to match current
  practice
• PPC to sort any process changes in Handbook
• HTML
• Agreed delivery packaging for modules - process
  refinement in SC4 to be enforced by Secretariat
• Possible use of CSS for harvested documents

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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
• ISO CS would like to promote SC4 standards more
  strongly with industry need more marketing
  material eg ISO Focus articles
• Suggestion that modules be treated as a standards
  database, with a single repository under
  configuration control by a maintenance agency

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Standards as databases (1)

• ISO TMB activity empowered to look at both
  technical and business issues
• Recommendations to be considered by TMB, CPSG and
  Council as required
• Services to users and standardisers
• Key principles agreed
• Considerable flexibility for TC/SC to optimise
  process
• One or more teams
• Relationship between standards and databases
• Supports all classes of ISO deliverables
• Common process with IEC seems feasible using
  usual stage codes
• May not require MA, and RA is different function
• Seems to meet SC4 needs

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Standards as databases (2)

• Ad hoc groups to define withdrawal processes, and
  URN/configuration control issues, for
  consideration by the full group
• Chris Kreiler was nominated as the SC4 point of
  contact for the configuration control issue
• David Leal for URN
• Further meeting mid-December, to prepare final
  input for the TMB meeting in mid-February.

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TC184 Plenary

• Recommendations on new scope for TC184
• Review of potential conflicts with SC1 work on
  14649 Parts 16 and 111
• Promotion of STEP-NC approach in SC2 for ORIN
• Requirement statement for more detailed URN
  definition
• Input on PLCS to the MAMI Task Force
• Monitoring the OAGi/SP.95 activity to identify
  any overlap
• PPC big picture link to IEC SB3
• Chair of SC4 confirmed until end 2009

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MoU/MG matters (1)

• Met 2006-10-16/17 in Geneva
• Good updates on what groups are doing on
  website
• Growing adoption of standards across groups
• MoU/MG Framework now in use by US aerospace, UK
  defence, and basis for IEC SB3 industrial
  automation framework

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AIA High Level Framework
Business Applications (Company Specific)
Information Backbone
Business scenario
Processes
Data
Security
Contractual Regulatory
AIA Member Company
Business Partner
Registry Repository
IT Services
AIA Guidelines
Technical Environment (Framework is product
company agnostic)
Key Components for Building Interoperability
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eBusiness Component Framework
Scenarios
Conformance and interoperability testing
Service assembly
Constraints
Contractual and regulatory
Security
Registry/Repository for Discovery, Presence,
Availability
Semantics - Terminology
Process models
Information content/components Classification
schemes Component libraries Enterprise data and
metadata Reference data Identifiers
Data Assembly
Process definition mechanisms
Information definition mechanisms
Service definition mechanisms
Representation options
Transport options
Networks
Physical representation
AIA Guidelines (Design, Build, Operate)
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Delivering Business Solutions
Which Enable
Composed of
Scenarios
Definition Process
Scenarios form the basis for defining solutions
Process
Constrained by
Data
Contract Regulatory
Delivered by
Security
IT Services
Design Guidelines
Implementation Guidelines
Operational Guidelines
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MoU/MG matters (2)

• Open registry for eBusiness standards work
• Based on MoU/MG Framework
• 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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MoU/MG matters (3)

• UN/CEFACT due to produce new version of Core
  Components Technical Specification by end
  October, and proposed core components development
  process by end year
• comments sought from user organisations
• Work proceeding on convergence of naming and
  design rules
• New IEC TC3 work item on identification schemes
  proposal from MoU/MG for ISO/IEC/ITU-T guide
• TC37 scope restricted to terminology, language
  resources and human communication promised not
  to conflict with TC154, TC184 scopes

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MoU/MG matters (4)

• Common IPR policy for standards from different
  groups
• Facilitates use of combinations of standards to
  meet business need
• ISO/IEC/ITU agreement welcomed
• Rolling review of MoU/MG recommendations not
  more than three years
• Meetings calendar

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Other liaison challenges

• New IEC TC3 liaison Reinhard Nerke
• Collaboration with TC10 on ISO 16792 - Geneva
  meeting 9-11 August
• Study group on document management between IEC
  TC3 and ISO TC10
• ISO TC67 interest in 15926 Parts 4-7
• Cooperation with TC154 - at national level
• Coordination with TC171/SC2 on PDF/E
• Requirements for liaison with ISO TC215 on
  medical informatics
• Liaison to new ISO TC 229 on nanotechnologies
• Electrical liaisons - IEC TC93 liaison
  statement
• Coordination with JTC1/SC7 on Systems Engineering
  NWI
• Coordination with JTC1/SC31 on RFID application
  standards - use cases sought from SC4, and
  response to liaison request
• Liaisons to TC8 and TC184/SC5 required
• Review of list of liaisons
• Effectiveness

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JTC1/SC31 ADC

• Final report of ad hoc group completed
• Action items for SC4
• Review process for definition of information
  objects
• Identify suitable information objects and apply
  for AFI/NSI as appropriate
• NWI for extension of ISO TS 21849 to general
  industrial use
• Appointment of liaison officers
• Interesting set of technical issues identified
• Formal request from SC31 for a liaison to be
  nominated

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IEC TC65 proposal on JWG1 trial

• IEC TC65 would like to undertake a trial of the
  JWG1 process to develop a common definition of
  Product Properties and Classification across
  Industrial Data
• Involves SC4/WG2 and IEC SC65A/B/C, SC17B and
  SC22G
• Based on ISO 13584/IEC 61360
• Each group responsible for technology in their
  own area
• Also need to review scope of SC65E

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Administrative action items

• Standards retention policy for SC4
• Improving the work between meetings
• HTML build of modules
• Proposed disclaimer on presentations from
  external groups/individuals
• French proposal for moving liaison plenary
• Wednesday afternoon
• combining with OTF
• Note to correct resolution 688 to reference 674
• Open source software?

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CEO items

• Web page for vendor products
• Updates to SOAP
• CEO to provide libraries of documents to
  plagiarise for articles
• CEO to investigate methods for recognising
  industrial use of SC4 standards

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Convenor Vacancies

• Deputy for WG11
• Participants for WG11
• Participants for WG3/T19 - AP203 ed2, AP214 ed 3

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Challenges for the week

• Recovery schedules for late work items
• WG13 launch
• Approach for publishing modules as a database
• ISO 22745 ballot comment resolution
• Agreed URN specification for content
• View on IEC identification scheme proposals
• QC plan
• Education and outreach strategy
• View of TC184 scope requirements
• No outstanding administrative action items
• Key liaison appointments
• ..and all the work planned by the WGs!

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Challenge for the future

• Standards are the next business paradigm
• SC4 standards have been proved to deliver benefit
  to organisations which implement them
• Much of the current work programme is completed
  within a year
• What does SC4 need to deliver in the next three
  years in order to drive the wider deployment of
  its standards and information models?
• What barriers do we need to break down?
• What is the KILLER AP(P)?