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

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

Data standards: 3300 BC

EDI, ebXML, UBL

UBL and vertical standards

UBL as a hub format One adapter interfaces each party to the common suppliers or tax authorities or customs agents or accountants...

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

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

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?

SC report: Administrative Preliminary comment: our technical subcommittee work is world class! We have a new set of meeting/membership rules I’m now going to start warning and then eliminating nonactive members

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

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)

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 hasn’t 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

This week’s agenda Tuesday: Joint NDR/LC 3-5 p.m. Wednesday: SC breakouts 9-3, joint 3-5; lunch 12:30-1:30 Thursday: SC breakouts 9-3, joint 3-5; lunch 12:30- 1:30; wine & cheese 5-6; dinner Friday: SC breakouts 9-12; lunch 12-1; joint 1-3, plenary 3-5 Saturday: Leave town