UBL LCSC Telecon Minutes

Date: Tuesday 18, June 2002

Attendees: Lisa Seaburg, Bill Meadows, Sue Probert, Gunther Stuhec, Sally Chan, Kurt Conrad, Monica Martin, Marion Royal, Tim McGrath, Joe Chuisano, and Alan Stitzer

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

2. Acceptance of previous minutes - Can not accept minutes, no quorum.

3. Action arising from previous meeting. - Briefly discussed action items from the Face to Face. Lisa has made her changes and passed updated Spreadsheet to Mike Adcock. This brought up a discussion on version control. Lisa will send an email to the group on the process and action items.

There are only two weeks left to finish the Disposition of Comments action items. The new Library version is due out by the end of July.

4. Work plan

Code/Identifier (Sue, Mike) To create a position paper. Sue will try to get together with Mike next week.
Private vs Standard Identifier (Frank, Mike, Gunther) Frank and Gunther have put together a position paper in German. Need to translate to English and distribute.
Date/Time (Gunther,Mike) Draft position paper done. Needs to be distributed for review and comment.
Methodology (Bob,Tim) Done.
Class Diagram Librarian (Frank) Gunther to analyze tools. Rational Rose is the prime candidate. Forward to tools committee.
Order Response (Bill, Lisa) Bill will put together draft spreadsheet of basic Order Response (accept/reject). Order Response with suggested modifications will follow basic Order Response.
Actioning Disposition tasks (Various) See above action items.
Ontology (Peter) Peter has asked that this be withdrawn. Done.
Context Liaison (Sue) Sue did not attend the meeting, deferred to Arofan, who was not on the call. A brief discussion concluded that the next version of the model should capture context.
Modeling tools (Gunther) Gunther is working on the Schema generator. Hopes to have more time to work on it next week.
Schema generator (Gunther) Same as above.
Peer review of other models (OAG,EAN/UCC,ACORD) (ongoing) Continuing, we will incorperate/integrate additions from other vocabularies as seen appropriate.

5. Reports on status of other UBL subcommittees

Tools and technique sc (Arofan) No meetings held since Face to Face. There was more discussion at this point on the need for a version control tool. Gunther said they were not looking at this. We need to submit a requirements document. The Tools committee also needs more people. Tim and Gunther to work on the requirements doc, and look for interested parties for the Tools committee.
Naming and design rules sc (anyone) No meeting last week. Paper out for review.
Context drivers sc (Sue) No report.
Context assembly sc (Arofan) Not in attendance.
Liaison (Sue/Lisa) Discussed Face to Face meetings schedule. Next meeting is
- Oct 1 - 4 in Burlington Ma (near Boston). A November meeting will be held in Menlo Park Ca.
- Nov 18 - 21. The first meeting of 2003 will be a joint meeting with X12 in Denver Feb 3 - 7.
Review Cycle. There should be more NDR cycles than LCSC cycles. The LCSC should send current release of NDR with LC releases. Hopefully this will minimize the comments related to NDR received by LC.

6. Reports on status of other related projects

Core Component Technical Specs (Mike/Lisa) No change. Expect our comments to be addressed at the July meeting. There is a major dependency on CC acceptance of our recommendations. What happens if they don't?
eBTWG CCSD (Sally) Finished Purchase Order, and Order Acknowledgment. They have 7 reusable Core Components, 17 new candidates, and 21 Basic Business entities. Next step is to identify aggregate components. They are looking for a second example.

7. Other Business - None.

8. Next meeting. Tuesday June 25th 8am PDT.