OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) TC

UBL 1.0 Committee Draft ballot

  • 1.  UBL 1.0 Committee Draft ballot

    Posted 04-23-2004 22:46
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    Subject: UBL 1.0 Committee Draft ballot


    UBL voting members,
    
    It is with great pleasure that I submit UBL 1.0 for your approval
    as an OASIS Committee Draft.
    
    Balloting opens at 4 p.m. San Francisco time Friday 23 April 2004
    and closes at 4 p.m. San Francisco time Friday 30 April 2004.
    Since quick approval would be advantageous to our release
    schedule, I urge you to log in now to the UBL TC site and click on
    "Ballots" to record your vote.  DO NOT use the UBL mailing list
    for voting; use the web site.
    
    BALLOT TEXT
    
    The question to be voted on reads as follows:
    
       Resolved,
    
       1. That the OASIS UBL TC approves the UBL 1.0 Working Draft
          currently located at
          http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/6519/wd-UBL-1.0.zip
          as an OASIS Committee Draft.
    
       2. That upon approval by the TC, the UBL TC chairs and
          secretaries are authorized to make such editorial and
          formatting changes to the working draft as may be required
          for publication as an OASIS Committee Draft, for example,
          changing "wd-" to "cs-" and updating the document URI to
          point to a permanent location on the OASIS web site.
    
       3. That the Committee Draft be submitted to OASIS for public
          review in preparation for OASIS standardization.
    
    BACKGROUND
    
    This draft represents six years of continuous development in the
    creation of a standard XML business syntax, the last two years of
    which have taken place in the OASIS Universal Business Language
    Technical Committee.  Your vote to approve the current document as
    a Committee Draft will elevate the draft to the status of a public
    specification and allow the TC to begin the review process needed
    to make UBL 1.0 an OASIS Standard.
    
    QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
    
       Q: Does a vote to approve the draft mean that we cannot change
          it later?
    
       A: No.  Submission of the CD to OASIS will begin a 30-day
          public review period, upon completion of which we will
          review comments received and make changes accordingly.
          However, substantive changes will require that we re-ballot
          the new Committee Draft.
    
       Q: If I am in favor of approving the CD, does it really make
          any difference whether I vote?
    
       A: Yes. OASIS rules require approval by 2/3 of the entire
          voting membership of the TC in order to make a working draft
          into a Committee Draft.  An abstention or a failure to vote
          may prevent passage of the resolution to approve.
    
    Jon Bosak
    Chair, OASIS UBL TC
    
    
    


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