OASIS Forms ebXML Business Process Technical Committee

OASIS TC Call For Participation: ebXML Business Process

Date:      Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:02:26 -0700
From:      James Bryce Clark <jamie.clark@oasis-open.org>
To:        members@lists.oasis-open.org, xml-dev@lists.xml.org, ebxml-dev@lists.ebxml.org
Subject:   OASIS TC Call For Participation: ebXML Business Process

A new OASIS technical committee is being formed. The OASIS ebXML Business Process Technical Committee (ebXML BP TC) has been proposed by the following members of OASIS: Jacques Durand, Fujitsu; Jean-Jacques Dubray, attachmate; Neelekantan Kartha, Sterling Commerce; Dale Moberg, Cyclone Commerce; Himagiri Mukkamala, Sybase; Monica J. Martin, Sun Microsystems; and Martin Roberts and John Yunker, both individual members.

The proposal for a new TC meets the requirements of the OASIS TC Process (see http://oasis-open.org/committees/process.shtml), and is appended to this message. The proposal, which includes a statement of purpose, list of deliverables, and proposed schedule, will constitute the TC's charter. The TC Process allows these items to be clarified (revised) by the TC members; such clarifications (revisions), as well as submissions of technology for consideration by the TC and the beginning of technical discussions, may occur no sooner than the TC's first meeting.

As specified by the OASIS TC Process, the requirements for becoming a member of the TC are that you must 1) be an employee of an OASIS member organization or an Individual member of OASIS; 2) notify the TC chair of your intent to participate at least 15 days prior to the first meeting; and 3) attend the first meeting of the TC.

For OASIS members, to register for the TC using the OASIS collaborative tools, go to the TC's public page at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-bp and click on the button for "Join This TC" at the top of the page. You may add yourself to the roster of the TC either as a Prospective Member (if you intend to become a member of the TC) or an Observer. A notice will automatically be sent to the TC chair, which fulfills requirement #2 above. You may join a TC at any time after the first meeting, but in order to be a voting member at the first TC meeting you must a) register at least 15 days before the first meeting and b) attend the first meeting.

Note that membership in OASIS TCs is by individual, and not by organization.

For non-OASIS members, a public comment list ebxml-bp-comment@lists.oasis-open.org is available for the public to make comments on the work of this TC; the public may subscribe to this list by sending mail to ebxml-bp-comment-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org.

The archives of the TC's private and comment mail lists are visible to the public at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/

Further information about this topic may be found on the Cover Pages under the topic of "Standards for Business Process Modeling, Collaboration, and Choreography" at:

http://xml.coverpages.org/bpm.html.

A FAQ for the TC is available at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-bp/faq.php.

James Bryce Clark
Manager Tech Stds Dev, OASIS Open
+1 978 667 5115 x 203 office
+1 310 293 6739 cel

OASIS ebXML Business Process Technical Committee

Charter

The following information will become the normative TC charter.

Name

The name of this Technical Committee is the OASIS ebXML Business Process Technical Committee (TC).

Purpose

The purpose of the OASIS ebXML Business Process TC is to continue work on a royalty-free technology representation and model compatible with an underlying generic metamodel for business processes, activities, and collaboration. This business collaboration could occur within or between enterprises. The collaboration may be enforceable, easily manageable, and/or traceable. This representation and model will provide a set of guidelines to define the business process-rules, semantics and syntax for both binary and multi-party collaborations. The representation and model will work within the ebXML architecture (for metamodel and model exchange) and will also support standards-based development and exchange of business process definitions.

In no event shall this Technical Committee finalize or approve any technical specification if it believes that the use, distribution, or implementation of such specification would necessarily require the unauthorized infringement of any third party rights known to the Technical Committee, and such third party has not agreed to provide necessary license rights on perpetual, royalty-free, non-discriminatory terms.

At the appropriate time the OASIS ebXML Business Process TC shall submit its Committee Drafts for balloting by OASIS membership for OASIS Standard status.

Scope

The OASIS ebXML Business Process TC's effort will address and align with vertical industry needs for business process collaboration and focus on ease of use. The specification can be integrated into and bind with existing or emerging technologies.

The TC's work should build upon similar, existing standards wherever possible and align with other relevant standards for:

Feature reuse
Bindings
Guidelines on how to jointly use the specification with other related standards
Addressing requirements from other related standards

The following features are outside the TC's scope:

Specific business process interface descriptions
Business process execution languages
The run-time execution instance

The specification will support the computable and executable language used for business collaboration, rather than the processing accomplished from the view of a single party. The TC may identify bindings to support the business process instance and ultimately the run-time execution. A binding (map) could enable other executable process mechanisms to drive enterprise applications where ebBP controls (rather than create) service behavior.

The TC will base its work upon the ebXML BPSS v1.01 specification (ebXML Business Process Specification Schema v1.01, http://www.ebxml.org/specs/index.htm) jointly developed by OASIS and UN/CEFACT, and derivative work expected to be donated by co-sponsors and participants.

The work of the TC will:

Enable business systems to be configured in a canonical way to support the execution of business collaborations and transactions. This will improve interoperability of business processes across and within enterprises and should help to simplify and converge current collaboration models and methodologies.
Enable an organization to express characteristics of its business processes -- such as configuration parameters specific to choreography and business collaboration and refined by a collaboration agreement (such as an ebXML Collaboration Profile Agreement) -- to enable electronic integration of business processes as part of a larger collaboration. This includes the interaction points in the organization's business process to determine whether and how to engage in a collaboration and the kinds of information exchanges required. ebBP will be capable of working with e-business specifications from other industry and standards organizations such as RosettaNet, EAN.UCC, and UN/CEFACT.
Provide integrated operational and functional service views of business processes, which will enable business analysts to more directly participate in business collaboration creation and management.
Allow business process models to be expressed visually (through diagrams) and in XML (machine readable).
Support the ebXML framework and Web services to provide a loosely coupled, highly aligned specification set, while enabling support for other emerging technologies. Promote the utility of this principle, through, for example, actively working with other OASIS technical committees, industry and standards organizations.

Deliverables

Requirements document: Due within 2 months of first meeting.
ebXML Business Process specification and schemas: This specification will reflect refinements and changes made to the submitted version of ebXML BPSS that are identified by the TC members for additional functionality, semantic clarity and technical robustness within the scope of the TC charter. Final draft will be due within 6 months of first meeting.
Industry or domain specific examples or implementation guides may be developed. The due dates will be determined after the initial set of deliverables is complete.

Audience

The primary audience for the final output of this TC is business process analysts and implementers.

Language

All business will be conducted in English.

Additional Information

The following is informational only for the purpose of starting the TC.

Other Work

As appropriate, the OASIS ebXML Business Process TC will collaborate with other relevant OASIS TCs, such as the Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL), ebXML Message Service, ebXML Collaboration Protocol Profile and Agreement (CPP/A), and the ebXML Implementation, Interoperability and Conformance (IIC) TC. The TC will also work to align with relevant efforts of other organizations, such as the W3C's Web Service Architecture Working Group and Web Services Choreography Working Group, RosettaNet, the Open Applications Group Inc (OAGI), and the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and eBusiness (UN/CEFACT) organization.

To further our work and purpose, other liaisons may be established.

First Meeting

The first meeting of the OASIS ebXML Business Process TC will take place on 20 October 2003, at 9:00 a.m. PT over the phone, at a number to be provided to prospective participants no later than 5 days before the meeting. That date and time will be the time of record for establishing initial voting membership under the OASIS TC process.

Schedule

After the initial teleconference meeting the TC shall meet bi-weekly over the phone unless another schedule is agreed upon. For example, phone meetings will not be necessary during face-to-face meetings.

A face-to-face meeting of the TC in the San Francisco area of the U.S. shall be arranged at the first phone meeting, to take place no later than three months after this initial phone meeting. Subsequent face-to-face meetings will be quarterly.

The sponsor for the first year of face-to-face meeting shall be Sun Microsystems, with the first physical meeting to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area. The sponsor for phone meetings during the first year shall be Sun Microsystems and Cyclone Commerce, although support will be requested from other TC members.

TC Co-Sponsors

The following persons eligible to participate in OASIS technical committees state that they are committed to the purpose and schedule stated above:

Jacques Durand, Fujitsu, Jacques.Durand@fsw.fujitsu.com
Jean-Jacques Dubray, attachmate, jeanjadu@Attachmate.com
Neelekantan Kartha, Sterling Commerce, N_Kartha@stercomm.com
Dale Moberg, Cyclone Commerce,dmoberg@cyclonecommerce.com
Himagiri Mukkamala, Sybase himagiri@sybase.com
Martin Roberts, Individual, martin.me.roberts@bt.com
John Yunker, Individual, yunker@amazon.com
Monica J. Martin, Sun Microsystems, monica.martin@sun.com

Convenor

The Convenor shall be Dale Moberg, Cyclone Commerce.

The proposed TC chairs are:

Dale Moberg (Cyclone Commerce)
Monica J. Martin (Sun Microsystems)

Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. See details in the news story "OASIS Members Form ebXML Business Process Technical Committee."

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The OASIS ebXML Business Process Technical Committee (ebXML BP TC) has been proposed by the following members of OASIS: Jacques Durand, Fujitsu; Jean-Jacques Dubray, attachmate; Neelekantan Kartha, Sterling Commerce; Dale Moberg, Cyclone Commerce; Himagiri Mukkamala, Sybase; Monica J. Martin, Sun Microsystems; and Martin Roberts and John Yunker, both individual members. The proposal for a new TC meets the requirements of the OASIS TC Process (see http://oasis-open.org/committees/process.shtml), and is appended to this message. The proposal, which includes a statement of purpose, list of deliverables, and proposed schedule, will constitute the TC's charter. The TC Process allows these items to be clarified (revised) by the TC members; such clarifications (revisions), as well as submissions of technology for consideration by the TC and the beginning of technical discussions, may occur no sooner than the TC's first meeting. As specified by the OASIS TC Process, the requirements for becoming a member of the TC are that you must 1) be an employee of an OASIS member organization or an Individual member of OASIS; 2) notify the TC chair of your intent to participate at least 15 days prior to the first meeting; and 3) attend the first meeting of the TC. For OASIS members, to register for the TC using the OASIS collaborative tools, go to the TC's public page at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-bp and click on the button for "Join This TC" at the top of the page. You may add yourself to the roster of the TC either as a Prospective Member (if you intend to become a member of the TC) or an Observer. A notice will automatically be sent to the TC chair, which fulfills requirement #2 above. You may join a TC at any time after the first meeting, but in order to be a voting member at the first TC meeting you must a) register at least 15 days before the first meeting and b) attend the first meeting. Note that membership in OASIS TCs is by individual, and not by organization. For non-OASIS members, a public comment list ebxml-bp-comment@lists.oasis-open.org is available for the public to make comments on the work of this TC; the public may subscribe to this list by sending mail to ebxml-bp-comment-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org. The archives of the TC's private and comment mail lists are visible to the public at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ Further information about this topic may be found on the Cover Pages under the topic of "Standards for Business Process Modeling, Collaboration, and Choreography" at: http://xml.coverpages.org/bpm.html. A FAQ for the TC is available at: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-bp/faq.php. James Bryce Clark Manager Tech Stds Dev, OASIS Open +1 978 667 5115 x 203 office +1 310 293 6739 cel OASIS ebXML Business Process Technical Committee Charter The following information will become the normative TC charter. Name The name of this Technical Committee is the OASIS ebXML Business Process Technical Committee (TC). Purpose The purpose of the OASIS ebXML Business Process TC is to continue work on a royalty-free technology representation and model compatible with an underlying generic metamodel for business processes, activities, and collaboration. This business collaboration could occur within or between enterprises. The collaboration may be enforceable, easily manageable, and/or traceable. This representation and model will provide a set of guidelines to define the business process-rules, semantics and syntax for both binary and multi-party collaborations. The representation and model will work within the ebXML architecture (for metamodel and model exchange) and will also support standards-based development and exchange of business process definitions. In no event shall this Technical Committee finalize or approve any technical specification if it believes that the use, distribution, or implementation of such specification would necessarily require the unauthorized infringement of any third party rights known to the Technical Committee, and such third party has not agreed to provide necessary license rights on perpetual, royalty-free, non-discriminatory terms. At the appropriate time the OASIS ebXML Business Process TC shall submit its Committee Drafts for balloting by OASIS membership for OASIS Standard status. Scope The OASIS ebXML Business Process TC's effort will address and align with vertical industry needs for business process collaboration and focus on ease of use. The specification can be integrated into and bind with existing or emerging technologies. The TC's work should build upon similar, existing standards wherever possible and align with other relevant standards for: Feature reuse Bindings Guidelines on how to jointly use the specification with other related standards Addressing requirements from other related standards The following features are outside the TC's scope: Specific business process interface descriptions Business process execution languages The run-time execution instance The specification will support the computable and executable language used for business collaboration, rather than the processing accomplished from the view of a single party. The TC may identify bindings to support the business process instance and ultimately the run-time execution. A binding (map) could enable other executable process mechanisms to drive enterprise applications where ebBP controls (rather than create) service behavior. The TC will base its work upon the ebXML BPSS v1.01 specification (ebXML Business Process Specification Schema v1.01, http://www.ebxml.org/specs/index.htm) jointly developed by OASIS and UN/CEFACT, and derivative work expected to be donated by co-sponsors and participants. The work of the TC will: Enable business systems to be configured in a canonical way to support the execution of business collaborations and transactions. This will improve interoperability of business processes across and within enterprises and should help to simplify and converge current collaboration models and methodologies. Enable an organization to express characteristics of its business processes -- such as configuration parameters specific to choreography and business collaboration and refined by a collaboration agreement (such as an ebXML Collaboration Profile Agreement) -- to enable electronic integration of business processes as part of a larger collaboration. This includes the interaction points in the organization's business process to determine whether and how to engage in a collaboration and the kinds of information exchanges required. ebBP will be capable of working with e-business specifications from other industry and standards organizations such as RosettaNet, EAN.UCC, and UN/CEFACT. Provide integrated operational and functional service views of business processes, which will enable business analysts to more directly participate in business collaboration creation and management. Allow business process models to be expressed visually (through diagrams) and in XML (machine readable). Support the ebXML framework and Web services to provide a loosely coupled, highly aligned specification set, while enabling support for other emerging technologies. Promote the utility of this principle, through, for example, actively working with other OASIS technical committees, industry and standards organizations. Deliverables Requirements document: Due within 2 months of first meeting. ebXML Business Process specification and schemas: This specification will reflect refinements and changes made to the submitted version of ebXML BPSS that are identified by the TC members for additional functionality, semantic clarity and technical robustness within the scope of the TC charter. Final draft will be due within 6 months of first meeting. Industry or domain specific examples or implementation guides may be developed. The due dates will be determined after the initial set of deliverables is complete. Audience The primary audience for the final output of this TC is business process analysts and implementers. Language All business will be conducted in English. Additional Information The following is informational only for the purpose of starting the TC. Other Work As appropriate, the OASIS ebXML Business Process TC will collaborate with other relevant OASIS TCs, such as the Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WSBPEL), ebXML Message Service, ebXML Collaboration Protocol Profile and Agreement (CPP/A), and the ebXML Implementation, Interoperability and Conformance (IIC) TC. The TC will also work to align with relevant efforts of other organizations, such as the W3C's Web Service Architecture Working Group and Web Services Choreography Working Group, RosettaNet, the Open Applications Group Inc (OAGI), and the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and eBusiness (UN/CEFACT) organization. To further our work and purpose, other liaisons may be established. First Meeting The first meeting of the OASIS ebXML Business Process TC will take place on 20 October 2003, at 9:00 a.m. PT over the phone, at a number to be provided to prospective participants no later than 5 days before the meeting. That date and time will be the time of record for establishing initial voting membership under the OASIS TC process. Schedule After the initial teleconference meeting the TC shall meet bi-weekly over the phone unless another schedule is agreed upon. For example, phone meetings will not be necessary during face-to-face meetings. A face-to-face meeting of the TC in the San Francisco area of the U.S. shall be arranged at the first phone meeting, to take place no later than three months after this initial phone meeting. Subsequent face-to-face meetings will be quarterly. The sponsor for the first year of face-to-face meeting shall be Sun Microsystems, with the first physical meeting to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area. The sponsor for phone meetings during the first year shall be Sun Microsystems and Cyclone Commerce, although support will be requested from other TC members. TC Co-Sponsors The following persons eligible to participate in OASIS technical committees state that they are committed to the purpose and schedule stated above: Jacques Durand, Fujitsu, Jacques.Durand@fsw.fujitsu.com Jean-Jacques Dubray, attachmate, jeanjadu@Attachmate.com Neelekantan Kartha, Sterling Commerce, N_Kartha@stercomm.com Dale Moberg, Cyclone Commerce,dmoberg@cyclonecommerce.com Himagiri Mukkamala, Sybase himagiri@sybase.com Martin Roberts, Individual, martin.me.roberts@bt.com John Yunker, Individual, yunker@amazon.com Monica J. Martin, Sun Microsystems, monica.martin@sun.com Convenor The Convenor shall be Dale Moberg, Cyclone Commerce. The proposed TC chairs are: Dale Moberg (Cyclone Commerce) Monica J. Martin (Sun Microsystems) Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. See details in the news story "OASIS Members Form ebXML Business Process Technical Committee."