OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) TC

Agenda for Atlantic UBL TC call 04 November 2015 14:00UTC (15:00CEST/09:00EST) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2015-11-04T14:00:00 CONFERENCING INFO https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/714594514 Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended. Or call in using your telephone. Australia: +61 (0) 2 9037 1944 Austria: +43 (0) 7 2088 0034 Belgium: +32 (0) 28 08 9321 Canada: +1 (647) 977-5956 Denmark: +45 (0) 69 91 80 05 Finland: +358 (0) 931 58 1746 France: +33 (0) 182 880 780 Germany: +49 (0) 892 2061 159 Ireland: +353 (0) 15 290 180 Italy: +39 0 699 26 68 58 Netherlands: +31 (0) 208 908 267 New Zealand: +64 (0) 9 442 7358 Norway: +47 21 54 32 44 Spain: +34 911 23 0850 Sweden: +46 (0) 852 500 612 Switzerland: +41 (0) 435 0006 96 United Kingdom: +44 (0) 203 535 0611 United States: +1 (773) 945-1031 Access Code: 714-594-514 Meeting ID: 714-594-514 Audio PIN (deprecated): Shown after joining the meeting Pacific teleconference attendance: G. Ken Holman (convener) Tim McGrath Andy Schoka STANDING ITEMS Additions to events calendar: http://ubl.xml.org/events - no new events to add at this time Review of Pacific call minutes (copied below as agenda items) https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201511/msg00001.html Review of Atlantic call minutes https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201510/msg00012.html Membership status review < https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process#membership > https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process#membership https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/membership.php?wg_abbrev=ubl < https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ubl/members/roster.php?num_items=80 > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ubl/members/roster.php?num_items=80 - voting status is determined by the following: - existing voting members must not miss two consecutive meetings to maintain voting status - non-voting members must attend two consecutive meetings to obtain voting status - committee officers (alphabetical): - Jon Bosak (secretary) - G. Ken Holman (co-chair) - Tim McGrath (co-chair) - current voting member list (alphabetical): - Oriol Bausa - Kenneth Bengtsson - Kees Duvekot - G. Ken Holman - Ole Madsen - Tim McGrath - Andy Schoka - members approaching losing voting status: - Kees Duvekot ISO/IEC FDIS 19845 Universal Business Language Version 2.1 (UBL v2.1) - FDIS ballot now completed ... status remains at "50.60 (Close of voting. Proof returned by secretariat)" as of 2015-06-24 ... awaiting distribution of results: < http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=66370 > http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=66370 - regarding citing the work, any discussion regarding what we discussed last meeting using the following for a version specific reference: OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) v2.1 (ISO/IEC 19845) - the following would be used for a general reference: OASIS UBL (ISO/IEC 19845) - ACTION: all members please review the brand new list on our (under-used) wiki of where to send notifications of UBL 2.1 becoming ISO/IEC 19845 (sign in with your regular OASIS member credentials): < https://wiki.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL_2.1_Announcement_List > https://wiki.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL_2.1_Announcement_List UBL 2.2 - in our governance document we posited that UBL would be revised on a three-year basis: < http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-Governance/v1.0/cn01/UBL-Governance-v1.0-cn01.html#S-THE-PLANNED-UBL-RELEASE-CYCLE > http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-Governance/v1.0/cn01/UBL-Governance-v1.0-cn01.html#S-THE-PLANNED-UBL-RELEASE-CYCLE - to meet this, we have to have all of the changes in by January 2016 - all members are reminded to contact those needing additions to UBL to review the governance document and get the discussion started for including any changes, as additions submitted in January 2016 likely will not have time to be discussed before we have to cut off accepting them < http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-Governance/v1.0/cn01/UBL-Governance-v1.0-cn01.html > http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/UBL-Governance/v1.0/cn01/UBL-Governance-v1.0-cn01.html - users of the common library are encouraged to review the governance document and to consider submitting their suggestions for consideration by the committee in a future revision - UBL Pre-award is preparing a submission for November 25 for UBL TC to consider for UBL 2.2 - Andy will contact TC204 to remind them of the upcoming deadline - Oriol has contacted CEN/BII to remind them of the upcoming deadline and the following responses were received from Georg Birgisson in Iceland (and copied here with permission) in which he recommends that the UBL TC reconsider the 3-year-periodic-release time-line outlined in the governance document: At 2015-10-30 12:55 +0000, Georg Birgisson wrote: >Regarding dates. BII3 may have some gaps for different documents but, >as regards the invoice document, BII3 has decided to align with the EU >invoice Norm data model. The draft norm is to a large extend based on >the BII2 requirements but the initiative on the invoice now lies with >PC434 which is the committee that is responsible for developing the EU norm. > >PC434 is in the process of initating a public review of the draft norm. >The draft is still being translated and the formal public review has >not been started but is expected to start in November. There is a three >month comment period which will then end somwhere around February. >There is significant interest in this standards across Europe so we expect many comments. >Therefore it is expected that it will take some months to work through >received comments. It is therefor expected that the final content of >the EU norm for an electronic invoice will not be known until early fall next year. > >As regards the invoice it may be inconvenient for UBL to set a deadline >for input into a new version, 2.2, in January since it may make it >difficult for UBL to adopt possible additional requirements resulting >from the EU norm later in the same year. EU directive 2014/55 mandates >all public authorities in Europe to support this invoicng norm within a >few years. I think it is very important that there will be no doupt >that the UBL invoice completely supports all requirements expressed in >the EU norm. Therefor I suggest that UBL reviews the timeline with this in mind. > >Kveðja, >Georg >---------------------------------- >Midran ehf., Georg Birgisson At 2015-10-30 15:51 +0000, Georg Birgisson wrote: >For planning purposes it may also be useful for you to have the full >timeline of the EU norm. The directive can be found here http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32014L0055&from=EN >and the timline is in article 11. Translating it into dates gives the >following. > >01. mar 2017 Deadline for official publication of EU norm (this deadline is >in the standardization request to PC434) >27. nov 2018 EU countries must have legalized support for the EU norm. >27. may 2020 Central governments of EU countries must support invoices based >on the EU norm. >27. nov 2022 Sub central contracting authorities must also support, meaning >down to lowest level of government. > >It is expected that many countries, specially in northern Europe, will move >much faster than this with implementing support for the norm since many of >them have already legalized use of electronic invoices in public >procurement. The directive mandates that the norm is implemented with >support for a short list of syntax and it seems certain that UBL will be on >that list as well as UN/CEFACT CII. The jury is still out for EDIFACT. PC434 >will deliver a normative syntax mapping to the UBL 2.1 invoice. Implementing >another version would then require an update to the normative syntax mapping >which is not a simple thing to do and would probably only be done if there >is significant benefit. Nevertheless it may be better for UBL to be prepared >with an updated version, in case 2.1 lacks sufficient support for parts of >the norm, as soon as possible because it will be even more difficult to >change syntax versions later in the process. 2019 will most likely be too >late. > >In my opinion, if there will be any gaps they are most likely to be in the >handling of taxation. > >Kveðja, >Georg >---------------------------------- >Midran ehf., Georg Birgisson - Ken noted that the pre-award committee is beginning model change proposals - question for the committee to consider: do we wait another six months to see if further requirements are submitted to the committee? UBL Naming and Design Rules Version 3.0 - history: - public review ended April 15, 2015 < https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201503/msg00017.html > https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201503/msg00017.html - formal comments received: < https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-comment/201503/msg00001.html > https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-comment/201503/msg00001.html https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-comment/201503/msg00002.html < https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-comment/201504/msg00002.html > https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-comment/201504/msg00002.html - Ken has posted a second draft of the disposition document < https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201505/msg00015.html > https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201505/msg00015.html (this needs to be updated if we accept the split of the document) - current: - Ken has prototyped the split of the NDR into two documents, one a committee specification and the other a committee note: < https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201509/msg00004.html > https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/201509/msg00004.html - Tim's and Andy's comments for the specification are now in Ken's hands for incorporation into the next version of the document - comments for the committee note are still in the works JIRA tickets < https://issues.oasis-open.org/issues/?filter=11670 > https://issues.oasis-open.org/issues/?filter=11670 (note that the view can be changed using the box icon at top right; the list view provides the most summary information, without the detail view obscuring the screen space) - when creating tickets, remember to distinguish the following components by how they are described to be used as categories: < https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/UBL/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:components-panel > https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/UBL/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:components-panel UBL TC next steps - what promotional issues need to be addressed? - do we need a travelling road show along the lines of UBL International? TC CONCALL SCHEDULE Next meetings: 2015-11-04 Pacific 01:00UTC/20:00EST, Atlantic 14:00UTC/15:00CEST/09:00EST 2015-11-11 Pacific 01:00UTC/20:00EST, Atlantic 14:00UTC/15:00CEST/09:00EST 2015-11-18 Pacific 01:00UTC/20:00EST, Atlantic 14:00UTC/15:00CEST/09:00EST 2015-11-25 Pacific 01:00UTC/20:00EST, Atlantic 14:00UTC/15:00CEST/09:00EST Will anyone be requesting a leave of absence in the near future? For privacy reasons, this discussion will be kept off of the minutes. TC calendar: < http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/calendar.php?wg_abbrev=ubl > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/calendar.php?wg_abbrev=ubl TC calendar iCal subscription link: < http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup_feeds/ical/my_vcalendar.ics?token=fa658a7994a6cefb10c10be09e139af3&workgroup_id=50 > http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup_feeds/ical/my_vcalendar.ics?token=fa658a7994a6cefb10c10be09e139af3&workgroup_id=50 OTHER BUSINESS - Ken is participating in the UN/CEFACT project for the update of Rec. 1 on UN Layout Key for Trade Documents: http://www1.unece.org/cefact/platform/display/CNP/Update+of+Recommendation+1+on+UN+Layout+Key+for+Trade+Documents - Ken is representing Canada on the committee, but the plan is to also assess how the UBL Human Interface Subcommittee might incorporate any work products that are relevant to layout output and forms input -- Check our site for free XML, XSLT, XSL-FO and UBL developer resources Free 5-hour lecture: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/links/video.htm Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/o/ G. 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