1. 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary UN/CEFACT Forum Report Forum Management Group
Chair: Dick Raman
Vice-Chair: Sue Probert

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Agenda
Status update
Making the Forum effective
Forum Lyon
Forum Vancouver
Reports from the Permanent Groups
Wrap-Up
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Status Update
Core Components approach is fast gaining momentum
UN/CEFACT is increasingly regarded as the place where semantic harmonization can take place at the highest level
Industry groups now coming forward and declaring support for UN/CEFACT and for migration/alignment of their standards with the CC approach
UN/CEFACT needs the resources and buy-in of these external organizations
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Momentum
We have a unique opportunity to prove our value to the world at large
With stronger support from UNECE
Provided we demonstrate our value
With stronger support from the market
Provided we focus on where we are in agreement
Not on where we differ.
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Interoperability
UN/CEFACT is uniquely positioned to solve
Interoperability
By providing a global semantic Framework
Getting the buy-in of the market
The Forum should now
Unite and Focus on the key priorities
Speed up stable deliverables
Welcome other SDOs to work with us
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Collaboration
Collaboration with SDOs
We expect these parties to come into the Forum and work with us
We can recognize other organizations
Provided they adopt our semantics
The Forum will work hard to produce deliverables
By streamlining our process
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7. Cooperation with OASIS
2006 Coordination and Project Alignment
UBL and UN/CEFACT collaboration plan
build a common set of eBusiness document standards
work with all relevant Forum Groups - started
common core components and business processes
future UN/CEFACT deliverables constitute the upgrade path for UBL
Member countries are committing resources to completing this work in UN/CEFACT
Business Process Specifications
collaborative effort on BPSS v.3
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8. Making the Forum more Effective
Put Trade Facilitation at the top
Provide Forum focus
Create visibility to Bureau/UNECE
Enhance the core Forum activities
Project Management
Harmonization
Promotion & Awareness
Registry/Repository/Web Site
Liaison with SDOs at the working level
Supported by dedicated resources
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9. Making the Forum more Effective
Optimize TBG Domains
Increase management support
Strengthen links with external organizations
Refine cross-domain project process
Pre-harmonization procedures
Widen ATG syntax implementations
EDI, XML, webServices, Paper
Define a process for external standards migrating to CC
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10. 7th UN/CEFACT FORUM September 26-30 Lyon 2005
Hosted by:
EDIFrance
Sponsors:
September 26-30
Lyon 2005

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Highlights
7th UN/CEFACT Forum
220 attendees
Organization
Presented many challenges
Welcome Reception – Mayor of Lyon
Lunch & Learns
UNeDocs (Sitpro & IATA), GS1, XBRL, UMM (UoV)
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Highlights
A major software developer presented how the new UN/CEFACT standards are at the core of their new generation of software
Legal Group reconvened
Legal Aspects of the PG’s work
Agriculture group started
eGovernment group founded
First Core Components Library produced
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13. Francois Vuilleumeir, ISO/TC 154 Chair Duane Nickull, Individual
8th UN/CEFACT FORUM
March Vancouver, Canada
Hosts
Francois Vuilleumeir, ISO/TC 154 Chair
Duane Nickull, Individual

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8th UN/CEFACT Forum
The organizers did a tremendous job!
Thanks to the Sponsors!
Thanks to the Volunteers!
Welcome to over 230 delegates!
Introduction by Canadian government
WCO collaboration
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Highlights
Activities during the week
Extended our Core Components Library
A lot of interest in TBG18 (Agriculture)
Actual start of TBG19 (eGovernment)
The Legal Group met the PGs
Much more…
Lunch & Learns
X12, CIDX, UBL, OAG, …
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Highlights
Registry implementation verification team established
XML Schemas to be delivered in Q3 for:
Cross-Industry Invoice,
e-Tendering
UN/CEFACT Outputs on a semi-annual cycle
MRI needs more permanent status
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17. Applied Technologies Group
Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary
Chair: Anders Grangård
Vice-Chair: Mark Crawford

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Work Programme
Standard Business Document Header
Representation of CCTS in XML
Harmonisation of representation terms
TAC for XML Deliverables
UML to UN/EDIFACT Transformation Rules
UML to XML Design Rules
Representation of BPSS in XML
XML Naming and Design Rules
CPP-CPA Implementers Guide
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19. Item for Plenary Approval
UN/CEFACT XML NDR, Naming and Design Rules, have successfully gone through the ODP process and reached full consensus from the UN/CEFACT forum
ATG hence request the UN/CEFACT Plenary to approve this specification as a UN/CEFACT Technical Specification.
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20. Items for Plenary Noting
Hundred forty-five (145) Data Maintenance requests were processed for the D.05B UN/EDIFACT Directory
Hundred twelve (112) Data Maintenance requests were processed for the D.06A UN/EDIFACT Directory
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Other Items
Inter-forum meetings held
June Kongsberg, Norway
January 2006 – Wollongong, Australia
Future Meetings
Summer 2006 – Germany
October 2006 – New Delhi, India
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22. Information Content Management Group
Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary
Chair: Mike Conroy
Vice-Chair: David Dobbing

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Principal Highlights
Approved the RSM (Requirements Specifications Mapping)
Finalised the UN/CEFACT Registry Specification for ODP release
Initialised UN/CEFACT Registry Proof-of-Concept:
Canada, Government of Ontario
Chinese Taipei, National Taiwan Normal University
France, France Télécom
Korea, Korea Institute for Electronic Commerce
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Principal Highlights
Revised and approved code list updates to UNECE Recommendations:
Rec Units of Measure used in International Trade
Rec Types of Cargo, Packages and Packaging Materials
Rec Freight Cost Code
Advanced Code List Migration Project for the regular publication of a single XML based version of all UN/CEFACT maintained code lists
Audited the first release of the Core Components Library
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Work in progress
Finalise UN/CEFACT Registry development
Finalise Code List Migration Project
Ongoing audit of UN/CEFACT deliverables
Ongoing maintenance of UNECE Recommendations related to codes
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26. Items for Plenary Noting
UNECE Recommendation 16 (Codes for Trade and Transport Locations - UN/LOCODE ) - UN/LOCODE
UNECE Recommendation 20 (Units of Measure used in International Trade) - Rev. 4
UNECE Recommendation 21 (Codes for Types of Cargo, Packages and Packaging Materials) - Rev. 5
UNECE Recommendation 23 (Freight Cost Code) - Rev. 2
UN/EDIFACT DIRECTORY Releases
D05A
D05B
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27. Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary Chair: Usva Vice-Chair: Bart Schermer
Legal Group
Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary
Chair: Usva
Vice-Chair: Bart Schermer

28. International Trade and Business Processes Group
Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary
Chair: Jean-Luc Champion
Vice-Chair: Yong-Jae Kim

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Some thoughts…
Mind is like a parachute…
It works better when it’s open!
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TBG
Business Requirements Specification
Cross industry ordering, Cross industry e-catalogue, Steel industry ordering
IFTM International Forwarding Transport
Project Schedule and Cost Performance Management, Contract Financial Execution Management
Accounting Entry
Waste Tracking
DAPLOS, Animal Passport
Requirements Specification Mapping
Cross industry invoice, Cross industry remittance advice
e-Tendering
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TBG
Plan for the harmonisation with and integration of UBL Trade and Transport messages
Starting with Invoice and Remittance advice
Joint Transport and Environment effort on pre-harmonization for Dangerous Goods
Review of UNECE Recommendations 6, 11 & 12
E-Gov future projects: legal archiving, exchanges between Tax & Social Security, Phytosanitary certificates, GSRM.
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TBG
Mapping of two documents from Senegal and the E-Cert document to UNeDocs
Review of WCO DM 2.0 by Transport, Customs, e-Gov
Liaison between Finance & UNIFI
Liaison between Accounting & XBLR
Production of the first official CCL
First complete submissions containing BIE´s and messages (Cross Industry Invoice and e-Tendering)
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34. Techniques & Methodologies Group
Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary
Chair: Gunther Stuhec Vice-Chair: Christian Huemer,Anders Tell

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General
TMG made great strides
Meetings:
Walldorf, Germany
Lyon, France
Sydney, Australia
The next meeting will be in 19 – 23 June 2006 at SWIFT, Brussels, Belgium
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36. Inter-Organization Collaboration
Business Process Specification Schema (BPSS)
The next version of OASIS’s BPSS standard, v2.0.3, will be submitted to ISO TC 154 for approval as ISO/DTS
UN/CEFACT and OASIS will announce that BPSS 3.0 will be a joint effort.
The TMG recommends that this action be supported by CEFACT Plenary.
Constructive communications with OMG and W3C
Learned about other’s initiatives
Exploring collaboration opportunities
Defined gap analysis plans
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37. Business Process Working Group
UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology (UMM)
The 2nd working draft of UMM Base and UMM Foundation Module ready for ODP Step 5
The review period started on and ended on Began User Guide update process
Business Collaboration Specification Schema (BCSS)
Launched and made considerable progress in a joint project with ICG and ATG to define a UML profile for UMM and evaluate interoperability among various UML tools.
BCSS v1.0 draft specification released to ODP Step 4
Resources-Events-Agents (REA) Project is approved and already started
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38. Core Component Working Group
Core Component Technical Specification (CCTS)
CCTS V2.2 draft specification released for ODP 4
The review period started on and ended on
Core Component Message Assembly (CCMA)
The team has been formed, the project launch, and a series of steady conference calls has produced sixteen pages of comments.
Context Methodology Project (CMP) is approved and already started
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Architecture diagram
REA
Context
BPSS
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Thoughts
All TMG methodologies are the basis for a successful realization of UN/CEFACT‘s Vision “Simple, Transparent and Effective Processes for Global Commerce“
Feedback is that they are excellent specifications
But there is still a lot of work to do
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Thoughts
More active participating is the key for solving this issues in that time as you want
We believe that an endorsed IPR Policy will start the ball rolling, especially for
more awareness,
more resources,
more active participation, and
support by major companies
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42. Wrap-Up
Dick Raman

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Next Forums
New Delhi (India) – 2-6 October 2006
Offered by the Indian Government
Open – March 2007
Request for proposals
Preferably in Africa/Arabia/Latin-America
We need guarantee
Local sponsors
Europe – September 2007
USA – March 2008
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See you in New Delhi
It is important that the experts come
We have elections for all positions in the FMG
Legal Group Chair
Standards Liaison Rapporteur
The team would like to continue
Everyone is prepared to give it two more years to finish the job
Proposal to the Plenary to continue with 2 additional members from TBG in the FMG
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45. UN/CEFACT Forum Objectives
Increasing the effectiveness of the UN/CEFACT Forum
Increasing the quality and speeding up the production of UN/CEFACT deliverables
Strengthening relations with other standards- and vertical organizations
Will contribute more to saving money globally!
We need resources to do this…
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