1. Status of 19773 Project Frank Farance 19773 Project Editor 2009-06-23, WG2/N1276

2. 2009-06-23Status of 19773 Project, F. Farance2 Disposition of Comments (DoC) Ballot resolution at 2008-11 WG2 meeting Some questions as DoC applied to text changes

3. 2009-06-23Status of 19773 Project, F. Farance3 Question #1: Contact Data Potential Defect (but not in DoC) Problem: –Can’t share organization for multiple contacts from same organization Solution: –Use “reflit” in organization contact data so user can make choice of single copy or multiple copies of organization portion

4. 2009-06-23Status of 19773 Project, F. Farance4 Old vs. New Contact Data Name 1 Company Address Name 2 Company Address Cannot Share Single Copy of Company Address OLD Name 1 Company Address Name 2 Company Address Possibility: Multiple Copies of Company Address OR Possibility: Single, Shared Copy of Company Address NEW Common Company Address Name 1Name 2

5. 2009-06-23Status of 19773 Project, F. Farance5 Question #2: Using a Module’s Subcomponents Possibly add informative text Problem: –Not clear to some readers that they can use a portion of a module, e.g., can an application use “reference_type” (a helper datatype) of the “reflit” module? (Answer: Yes) Solution: –Add informative text (a note) to Conformance clause. Pre-review conformance claim.

6. 2009-06-23Status of 19773 Project, F. Farance6 Question #3: Interface Approach for Multilingual Feature Add interface to existing data standard Problem: –Multilingual features have context + strings, but don’t permit arbitrary additional data, e.g., 11179-3 Edition 3 terminology definition data Solution: (general feature?) –Add subclause that permits conformity of interface (data structure components), but not require implementing whole structure

7. 2009-06-23Status of 19773 Project, F. Farance7 Data Structure vs. Data Interface Instantiate data structure Access data structure // data structure contextualized_string ( context: string, text: string ); Instantiate elements of data structure Elements are the interface to structure // data interface user_defined_structure ( //... other elements context: string, text: string //... other elements ); interface

8. 2009-06-23Status of 19773 Project, F. Farance8 Question #4: Rename IKV Tuples to Slot Find/replace change Problem: –EBXML uses the notion of “slot”, 11179-3 CD2 defines “slot” (name, type, value) very similar to 19773’s IKV tuples (identifier, kind, value) Solution: –Rename 19773 feature to “slot” –Pre-review: Kevin, Harold, Bruce, Laura, Ray, Horiuchi

9. 2009-06-23Status of 19773 Project, F. Farance9 Status of Text 90% of DoC applied Finish in about 2-4 weeks