UBL LCSC Minutes

Tuesday - 13 August, 2002

Attendees: Lisa Seaburg, Bill Meadows, Sue Probert, Monica Martin, Marion Royal, Tim McGrath, Joe Chuisano, Terry Schager, Mike Adcock, Debbie Quezadaz

1. Welcome from Chair and appointment of Secretary to take minutes - Bill to take minutes.

2. Acceptance of previous minutes - We have quorum, so accepted last few sets of minutes.

3. Status of Activities

• Work Plan - There are quite a few items still open on the work plan.
• Distribution for Next Release

  Tim started the discussion with three questions. How much material do we have ? How much will we have by the end of the week? What don't we have?

  • We need to get something out for visibility. Next week will not be a complete distribution. The release will be out by Monday the 19th Europe time. The following are still evolving: Design, Modeling, Name Design.
  • Sue stated that we should send out a notice with the distribution explaining what is still being worked on and evolving.
  • In the next Face to Face a set of rules and frame work should be agreed upon. This will to be coordinated with NDR. There is some overlap of responsibilities between LCSC and NDR that should also be coordinated.
  • The discussion moved on to what we need to do over the next week to produce a distribution to the Liaison team. We need to explain what is there, what isn't, and the type of feedback we want.
  • Mike asked what the deadline for comments would be. It was generally agreed we needed the comments prior to the next face to face. Tim set a deadline of the Friday before the face to face. A small group is doing QA. part of this needs to be to get consistency in modeling. In the next face to face we need to have a clear method of working, or issues will only compound.
  • Lisa has incorporated most comments into the spreadsheet. There are a few she hasn't. These include Accounting and Finance model ( institution & branch), and Pricing variations. Mike to send Lisa an email, or call to discuss and resolve. (By Thursday) Lisa is going to try to contact Gunther to create XSD for Purchase Order, and Order Response. Monica wanted to see a class diagram of the Order Response. After some discussion it was decided that this was not really necessary. The confusion was due to the Order preceding the Order Response on the original spreadsheet. Lisa to send 'latest copy' of document. The current XSD has a lot of dead ends. This may be due to the Header and Summary being on separate sheets. (Issue for Lisa and Gunther) The current class diagrams are unreadable, and too complex. This is a UBL issue not just LCSC. Lisa needs help cleaning up a perl script. Tim confessed to having knowledge of perl, and will help Lisa. Tim will set up a yahoo, or some other email id that Lisa can reach.
• Position Papers & Supporting Documents -

  What is the best way to present? Need an issues list and a guide to reviewers. DO we include some position papers in the distribution? Sue stated that we need a scope statement explaining the 80 - 20 concept. Tim also wanted to draw attention to the reuse of components, instead of the actual documents. We don't yet have a full library, but a beginning. This is mostly, but not entirely based on the order. We need a consistent way to create documents. We also need to communicate that what we have is not complete. The following documents are required:

  • Guide to Reviewers - policies, refer to position papers, explain
  • Spread Sheet Model
  • Class Diagram of Spread Sheet Model
  • XML Schema - physical model
  • perl script - to show how XML generated
  • Class diagram generated from XSD - if possible
• Mike is on critical path for creation of class diagrams at the package level. The class diagrams should be broken into single blocks for ease of viewing.
• There will be a call on Thursday of a small group (Lisa, Mike, Sue, Sally, Monica, Tim and hopefully Gunther). They have been authorized by the LCSC to deal with the issues, and pull together the release. They will walk through the final draft for completeness.

4. Work Plan - going forward

• Need to resolve issues by end of next face to face.
• Should be able to create strong distribution prior to Nov face to face.

5. Other Business

• Joe asked if we were going to align context with ebXML context work, (question came from D. Weber). Tim replied simple answer yes. We will align to the Business Process.