Attendees: Tim McGrath (Chair) -
Marion Royal (minutes), Sue Probert (for the first 15 minutes), Lisa Seaburg,
Arofan Gregory, Gunther Stuhec, Peter Yim, Mark Crawford
1. Welcome from Chair and
appointment of Secretary to take minutes.
A quorum is not present. All
proposals suggested during this call will be subject to approval by mail list.
Marion Royal is to take minutes
2. Acceptance of previous minutes
Tim pointed out that we overlooked the acceptance on the previous call,
so the proposal is to accept the minutes from the previous two calls.
3. Reports on status of work teams
Team 1 OrderHeader and OrderSummary (Marion)
Marion has entered much of the
OrderSummary information into the spreadsheet and has examined the scope of the
OrderHeader.
Marion reported difficulty with
several aspects of entering the xCBL into the spreadsheet. Specifically, he noted problems with the subjectively
of context assignment as well as appropriate assignment of the dictionary names
(object class, property, and representation).
Tim acknowledged that the context is
rather difficult at this stage and suggests that we proceed with our "best
guess" with the understanding that this is only the first pass and that we
will look to the other subcommittees for additional guidance and
assistance. The assignment of dictionary
names is easier for those more knowledgeable with xCBL and suggested to use the
drafts of the naming and rules SC as a guide.
In addition, Sue said that she had been in discussion with several
subject matter experts who could assist in this area.
This led to a sidebar discussion of
OASIS membership and qualifications of previous contributors to ebXML. Sue will follow up with Tim on this.
Marion also indicated a problem in
dealing with attributes and their appropriate representation in the
spreadsheet. (Note: Sorry, but the minute taker is still a little unclear with
the responses received.)
Team 2 BaseItemDetail (Peter)
Peter reports that his team met and
kickoff with four persons, Lisa, Arofan, Adam, and Peter. Sallie Chan has also checked in. They have divided the work into 2
groups. Peter has received the xCBL 3
compilation and the text from Mark Crawford and is in the process of digesting.
Team 3 DeliveryDetail and
PricingDetail (Gunther)
Gunther made a false start with
packaging detail, but moved quickly into "delivery and
pricing"detail. Using XML Spy, he
has developed an example schema from the xCBL. He has also created the elements
and BIAs. Tim asked whether this had been coordinated with the tools SC.
Arofan joined the conference call
around this timeframe and Gunther repeated his
accomplishments. Arofan suggested that Gunther should send
his output to the full mail list and was interested in using Gunther's approach
to spark the tools and techniques discussion.
5. Reports on status of other UBL
subcommittees were provided.
6. Approved Work plan - any
amendments required.
Discussion over an obvious one week
slippage evolved into a proposal of a two week extension.
If there is no disagreement on the
mail list, the work plan with be amended as such. Tim stated that an extension of the next deliverable did not
necessarily equal a change
to the end state.
7. Other Business
Further discussion of the xCBL use
of "Other = String" to allow for extension of enumerated codes
concluded with the proposal that for this iteration, we will ignore these
occurrences.
Marion raised the issue that the
teams might be more effective if they were organized geographically. For example, Marion and Mark Crawford are in
the same city and could work together face to face. Tim proposed that Mark Crawford be changed to team 1 and Sue
Probert to team 3. The group present
expressed concurrence.
Tim said that there was a request
from Jon Bosak to take a look at the work being done by the OASIS Customer
Information Quality TC, who is looking at standards for name and address
contact information. Tim volunteered to
investigate and report back to this group.
8. Next meeting.
The next meeting is scheduled for
Tuesday, December 4th
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Marion A. Royal
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