1. U NITED N ATIONS C ENTRE F OR T RADE F ACILITATION A ND E LECTRONIC B USINESS Under the auspices of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe UN/CEFACT INFORMATION CONTENT MANAGEMENT GROUP ICG MIKE CONROY, CHAIR

2. UN/CEFACT Group’s Mandate (Summary)  The purpose of the Information Content Management Group (ICG) is to ensure the release of quality technical specifications for e-business. To achieve this aim it will be responsible for the: o Management of the UN/CEFACT information repositories and libraries for electronic business and Recommendations that fall within its scope as listed in section 2 of the mandate; o Technical conformance and the registration of the UN/CEFACT business requirements specifications; o Normalization and maintenance of the base syntax neutral information components that serve as the building blocks for the development of standards for implementation; o Technical conformity and registration of syntax specific information objects and components.

3. Work Programme ProjectDefinitionStatus Projected Completion date ICG Project team leader 2 FCT Operating Procedures between TBG, ATG and ICG COMPLETED 3 BRS (Business Requirements Specification) Development DRAFT FOR REVIEW 2005-03 M. CONROY 4 RSM (Requirement Specification Mapping) DRAFT FOR REVIEW 2005-09 M. CONROY 5 UML profile for UMMINITIAL DRAFT SUBMITTED 2004-09 M. CONROY 6 Develop UN/CEFACT repository strategy INITIALISED2004-09 F. BERTHOMIEU (temporary) 7 Maintain UN/ECE Recommendations ONGOING D. DOBBING 8 UNCL migration strategyNOT STARTED D. DOBBING 9 UN/EDIFACT Directory AuditONGOING M. CONROY

4. UN/CEFACT New Projects  UMM PROFILE FOR UML  OBJECTIVE  DEFINE UML PROFILE FOR CLASS DIAGRAMS  PERMIT COMMON USE OF UML ARTIFACTS  ENHANCE INTEROPERABILITY  ENABLE AUTOMATIC XML GENERATION  DEFINE UML PROFILE FOR CORE COMPONENTS  PERMIT INTERGRATION AND USE IN UML DEVELOPMENT TOOLS  PROVIDE AUTOMATED PLATFORM FOR LIBRARY COMPONENT USE  ENABLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF REUSABLE MODELS REQUIRED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE UN REPOSITORY STRATEGY

5. UN/CEFACT Items for Plenary Noting  Recommendation 16:  UN/LOCODE 2003-2 and UN/LOCODE 2004-1  Recommendation 23:  Freight cost codes – FCC  UN/EDIFACT D.03A  UN/EDIFACT D.03B  TBG/ATG/ICG workflow process

6. UN/CEFACT Issues for Plenary action  Difficulty in securing participation to the group  New group  Functions not yet visible  New deliverables that require development Request Heads of Delegation to encourage participation

7. UN/CEFACT S IMPLE, T RANSPARENT AND E FFECTIVE P ROCESSES FOR G LOBAL B USINESS.