UBL 1.0 Submission for Standardization

Subject:   UBL CD 2 passed and submitted for standardization
From:      jon.bosak@sun.com 
To:        ubl@lists.oasis-open.org 
Date:      Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:25:44 -0700 (PDT)

Hello UBL TC,

I have just transmitted the note below to OASIS. If we've done everything correctly, UBL 1.0 will now begin the journey toward OASIS standardization, and we can begin work next week on UBL 1.1.

Congratulations to all those who have worked so hard to make 1.0 a reality!

Jon

Date:   Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:18:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:   jon.bosak@sun.com
To:     karl.best@oasis-open.org
cc:     carol.geyer@oasis-open.org, dee.schur@oasis-open.org,
        jamie.clark@oasis-open.org, patrick.gannon@oasis-open.org,
        pim.vandereijk@oasis-open.org, scott.mcgrath@oasis-open.org,
        rcover@innodata-isogen.com
Subject:   UBL 1.0 submission

Hello Karl,

The OASIS UBL TC today approved the following set of resolutions:

   Resolved,

   1. That the OASIS UBL TC approves the UBL 1.0 draft
      specification currently located at

      http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/9085/cd2-UBL-1.0.zip

      as an OASIS Committee Draft.

   2. That the UBL TC chairs and secretaries are authorized to
      make such editorial and formatting changes to the approved
      document as may be required for publication as an OASIS
      Committee Draft.

   3. That the UBL TC chairs and secretaries are authorized to
      submit the approved Committee Draft for OASIS
      standardization together with the adjunct materials required
      by the OASIS standardization process.

   4. That the UBL TC chairs and secretaries are authorized to
      make such further editorial and formatting changes to the
      approved Committee Draft as may be requested by OASIS
      Administration to meet the requirements of the OASIS
      standardization process.

As authorized by this vote, I am hereby submitting the UBL 1.0
Committee Draft for OASIS standardization.  You can find a copy of
the CD, updated with the new OASIS logo and containing minor
corrections to errors in one of the non-normative appendices as we
discussed earlier, in temporary locations at

   http://www.ibiblio.org/bosak/ubl/cd-UBL-1.0/
   http://www.ibiblio.org/bosak/ubl/cd-UBL-1.0.zip

pending its installation by OASIS staff in permanent locations at

   http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cd-UBL-1.0/
   http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cd-UBL-1.0.zip

The OASIS TC process states:

   A TC may recommend that the Committee Draft be made an OASIS
   Standard. Upon resolution of the TC to move the specification
   forward, its chair shall submit the following items to OASIS TC
   Administration:

   1. A formal specification that is a valid member of its type,
      together with appropriate documentation for the
      specification, both of which must be written using approved
      OASIS templates;

   2. A clear English-language summary of the specification;

   3. A statement regarding the relationship of this specification
      to similar work of other OASIS TCs or other standards
      developing organizations;

   4. Certification by at least three OASIS member organizations
      that they are successfully using the specification
      consistently with the OASIS IPR Policy;

   5. An account of each of the comments/issues raised during the
      public review period, along with its resolution;

   6. An account of and results of the voting to approve the
      approve the specification as a Committee Draft;

   7. An account of or pointer to votes and comments received in
      any earlier attempts to standardize substantially the same
      specification, together with the originating TC's response
      to each comment;

   8. A pointer to the publicly visible comments archive for the
      originating TC;

   9. A statement from the chair of the TC certifying that all
      members of the TC have been provided with a copy of the
      OASIS IPR Policy; and

   10. Optionally, a pointer to any minority reports submitted by
      one or more TC members who did not vote in favor of
      approving the Committee Draft, or certification by the chair
      that no minority reports exist.

The following items are hereby submitted pursuant to the OASIS
requirements cited above.

1. A formal specification that is a valid member of its type,
   together with appropriate documentation for the specification,
   both of which must be written using approved OASIS templates

      See Sections 1 through 6 of the UBL 1.0 Committee Draft, in
      particular, the XSD schemas in Section 6.

      Documentation is provided in the UBL 1.0 release package by
      a description of the normative parts of the specification
      and their method of development plus a number of informative
      appendices containing a large quantity of supporting
      materials for the developer.  Three major informative
      documents are also included: the naming and design rules
      used in producing the UBL schemas, a methodology for
      customizing the schemas, and a set of guidelines for the
      development and maintenance of the code lists used in the
      release.  These documentary components of the UBL 1.0
      package are expected to find use in schema definition
      efforts similar to UBL.

2. A clear English-language summary of the specification

      See Section 1 of the UBL 1.0 release package.

3. A statement regarding the relationship of this specification to
   similar work of other OASIS TCs or other standards developing
   organizations

      As a standard, royalty-free set of XML schemas for common
      business documents, UBL provides an alternative to a number
      of proprietary or industry-specific business vocabularies.
      During the UBL 1.0 development period, UBL enjoyed formal
      liaison relationships with the following organizations:

         ACORD (insurance)
         ARTS (retail)
         ebXML Asia Committee
         e.centre (EAN UK)
         EIDX (electronics)
         HL7 (health care)
         NACS (convenience stores)
         RosettaNet
         SWIFT (banking)
         UIG (utilities)
         VCA (eye care)
         UN/EDIFACT Working Group
         ASC X12
         XBRL
         OASIS eGov TC
         OASIS CQI TC

      UBL is also on the continuing agenda of the ISO IEC ITU
      UN/ECE eBusiness Memo of Understanding Management Group,
      which coordinates ebusiness standards activities among the
      standards bodies referenced by the General Agreement on
      Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

4. Certification by at least three OASIS member organizations that
   they are successfully using the specification consistently with
   the OASIS IPR Policy

      The following OASIS member organizations have certified to
      the TC that they are successfully using UBL:

         Sun Microsystems
            http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00037.html
         Hitachi Systems & Solutions
            http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00038.html
         OSS Nokalva
            http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00039.html
         University of California at Berkeley
            http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00040.html
         National Danish IT and Telecom Agency
            http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00041.html

5. An account of each of the comments/issues raised during the
   public review period, along with its resolution

      Comments submitted regarding the UBL CD review of May 2004,
      together with their disposition by the TC, can be found in
      the UBL 1.0 Issues List, the latest version of which is
      located at

         http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00035.html

      It should be noted that UBL went through several other
      review cycles before the official May 2004 CD public review
      period:

      UBL 0.6 Mar/Apr 2002 Sanity check (UBL Liaisons only)
      UBL 0.7 Jan/Feb 2003 Two-month public review of entire package
      UBL 0.8 Jun/Jul 2003 Limited review (data model only)
      UBL 1.0 Beta Nov/Dec 2004 Two-month public review of entire package

      Comments received during these earlier review cycles can be
      found at various places in the UBL TC and subcommittee
      archives.

6. An account of and results of the voting to approve the
   specification as a Committee Draft

      Results of the CD ballot can be found at

         http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ubl/ballot.php?id=545&

7. An account of or pointer to votes and comments received in any
   earlier attempts to standardize substantially the same
   specification, together with the originating TC's response to
   each comment

      UBL has not previously been submitted for OASIS
      standardization.

8. A pointer to the publicly visible comments archive for the
   originating TC

      The UBL comment archive is located at

         http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-comment/

9. A statement from the chair of the TC certifying that all
   members of the TC have been provided with a copy of the OASIS
   IPR Policy

      Members of the TC were formally notified by email in the
      message archived at

         http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200407/msg00058.html

10. Optionally, a pointer to any minority reports submitted by one
    or more TC members who did not vote in favor of approving the
    Committee Draft, or certification by the chair that no minority
    reports exist.

No minority reports were submitted.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC

[Source: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200409/msg00044.html ]

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