Title	TMG Steering Committee Telephone Conference
Date	12.04.2007
Start Time	14:00 - Timezone: CET
End Time	16:00 - Timezone: CET
Meeting	ID: 689508
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Agenda

• 1. - Welcome
• 2. - Agree on agenda
• 3. - Select note taker
• 4. - Review Open Action Items (See: TMG - Steering Committee (StC))
• 5. - Web Side --> Next Steps and Official Announcement
• 6. - Report for UN/CEFACT Plenary
• 7. - Status Reports and Next Steps of Projects [See: Projects Overview)
  • 7.1. - Business Process Working Group (BPWG)
    • 7.1.1. - UPCC - UML Profile for Core Components
    • 7.1.2. - BPSS - Business Process Scheme Specification
    • 7.1.3. - REA - Resource Event Agent Specification
    • 7.1.4. - UBAC - Unified Business Agreements and Contracts Specification
    • 7.1.5. - UMM - UNCEFACT Modeling Methodology
  • 7.2. - Core Components Working Group (CCWG)
    • 7.2.1. - CCMA - Core Components Message Assembly
    • 7.2.2. - CCTS - Core Components Technical Specification
    • 7.2.3. - UCM - Unified Context Methodology
  • 7.3. - Electronic Business Architecture Working Group (EBAWG)
    • 7.3.1. - COD - Conformance and Compliance Definition
    • 7.3.2. - EBAS - Electronic Business Architecture Specification
    • 7.3.3. - GLOS - Glossary
• 8. - Preparation of Next Face-to-Face Meeting
• n. - Other business
• n. - Next meeting

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Title	CCTS - ODP 5 - Review of Draft
Subject	Review of implementations into draft, next steps
Date	13.04.2007
Start Time	13:00 – Timezone: CET
End Time	16:00 – Timezone: CET
Meeting	ID: 710785
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Agenda

• 1. – Welcome
• 2. – Agree on agenda
• 3. – Select note taker
• 4. – Last review of draft document before announcement of next iteration of public review
  • (See: http://75.43.29.149:8080/download/attachments/3801818/Specification+CCTS3p0+2nd+Public+Review+16+AprilFinalDraft12Apr.doc?version=1)
• 5. – Define check list and activities for public announcement
  • Excel spreadsheet for comment log
  • Text for public announcement
  • Lists and persons that will get the announcment
• 6. – Next activities with rules comparison list
• 7. – Other business
• 8. – Next meeting

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The UN/CEFACT TMG is preparing a new web site, which is based on Atlassion Confluence. Especially these enterprise wiki based approach helps the TMG to improve significantely the daily standardization work and to collaborate and share all the required information for these work. Especially every active and passive project member of the CCTS project should actively sign-up and join the CCTS project at TMG web site:

1. Sign up: http://75.43.29.149:8080/signup.action
2. Join the CCTS project: http://75.43.29.149:8080/display/public/CCTS+-+Core+Components+Technical+Specification

How you have to sign up and join the CCTS project will be detailly explained at the user guideline: http://75.43.29.149:8080/display/public/Guideline#Guideline-1.SignUpandJoining

Why Joining this CCTS Project? 

If you join the CCTS project, you will get:

• Additional authorization for this web-site that includes uploading of documents, direct editing, ...
• Access to all required information of the CCTS project
• Newletters about meetings, and activities
• Guarantee that you'll be listed at all required mailing-lists
• Project specifc online tracking of your contributions and comments, which will be considered for the future status of your membership and participants list at the CCTS specification

Which Information will be Provided? 

The new TMG web site has a well prepared structure for a better overview, for getting all information by a view clicks, and centralized finding of all required information regarding the CCTS project.  Additionally, the UN/CEFACT TMG will only use this web tool for showing and tracking the future progress of the CCTS project. Especially this web site provides the following information that can be reached by a view clicks:

• Overview information about CCTS [http://75.43.29.149:8080/display/public/CCTS+-+Core+Components+Technical+Specification]
  • the scope 
  • the project chair, and project lead 
  • the project (ODP) status
  • the duration and progress of each ODP status, and
  • the aim of a specific year,.
• Detailed information about each ODP step that includes (click on each project step)
  • all relevant information
  • all attachements that belong to the ODP step
  • all meeting information that belong to the ODP step
  • tracking information about the activities of the members

How will the Content be Provided? 

In order to eliminate the rank growth of different types of documents and decentralized storage of content, it is useful to edit the most of the relevant information directly at this web-site. Therefore, the  TMG website provides a number of templates that can be directly used for:

• Project proposal
• Requirements list
• Call for participation
• Call for contribution
• Meeting invitation and agenda
• Meeting minutes
• Comment log
• ....

The detailed user guideline gives you more information about the new TMG website: http://75.43.29.149:8080/display/public/Guideline

If you need further assistance or information, please don't hesitate and ask me.

Kind regards,

Gunther Stuhec

1.1 Agenda:

• Presentation and discussion on contribution
• Requirement discussion
• Further work

1.2 Roll Call

1.3 Contribtion discussion

Tony Coates presented his contribution - see contribution paper.

• Ontology - overused term, but important, focus on relations - needed in some industries like finance. A solution that is enough, but not more complicated than necessary. But the solution can also not be simpler than the problem we are trying to solve.
• GS1 stress importance of backwards compability.
• Simple metamodel, might have to add identification/groups.
• Tony stresses importance of real worls examples in order to check the solution. Here is my business context - how can we describe it. Avoid purely theoretical exercise.
• Important to avoid solutions where you have to name things very well, very difficult to succeed with in the long run.
• Run-time - not fully fleshed outwhat all these opportunities might be. Run-time requires context information in the message - not only in the schema.
• A certain level of inferencing necessary. Not overboard - full knowledge based system. If Texas can infer US without listing up every possible node. Problem with scope of inferecing - can be enourmous - model management issue. Only list the things we need.

1.4 Requirements discussion

Requirements discussion on Context Methodology:

Decision: Requirements deadline postponed until beginning of May on request of IBM. IBM may at this date if not contributing indicate a day of possible contribution that might be later than requirements deadline. Accepted by the group if delivered reasonably quick. GS1 and SAP are also considering contributions/ submissions on requirements.

SAP contributed with the following requirement proposals: 

Req.proposal: Context should be part of SBDH in order to convey the context of the message to the partner.

Req. proposal: Should describe in which language catgories/ constraints should be defined.

Ø Comment: where is the boundry of UCM. Model and process context, but not application (do i allow this rule, this field). UCM spec should not treat these things individually - cannot be complete anyway.

Req. proposal: Possibility to define super- and subcategorization structures.

Req. proposal: Technology representation should be provided as part of the project (might be done by ATG)

Questions to be discussed.

• What should be contextualized? Modelling context independent of artifact it is applied to. UCM should not be responsible for content of the metamodel (i.e. categories and values).
• Trigger behaviour - sending document from Germany to England means sending from one context to another. Possible run-time usage?

1.5 Further work

Weekly meetings: Thursday 08:00-09:00 CET and Thursdays 18:00-19:00 CET every other week.

Need to go through proposed requirements and formulate them for the Requirements document.

Go through wording in existing Requirements document. Wording should be more what and less how.

The TMG is pleased to announce the approval of the project proposal the UMM Base/Foundation Module Version 2.0

Purpose

The purpose of the project is to update the current UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology (UMM) base module and foundation module. When the work on the first versions of these modules started in December 2004 most UML tool vendors supported UML 1.4, but not UML 2. Due to this fact, it was decided to build the UMM base and foundation module on top of UML 1.4. Today, UML tool vendors have made progress towards UML2, which is the most common supported version, whereas UML 1.4 support is decreasing. Accordingly, the UMM base and foundation module will be adopted to UML 2. In other words, the purpose of this project is to develop a UML2 profile for the UMM base module and another one for the foundation module.

Please find full text of the project proposal at the following link UMM - Project Proposal. The project is conducted within UN/CEFACT's Techniques & Methodologies Group (TMG) at the working group BPWG. The project leader is Christian Huemer.

First Meeting

A first meeting of the project team will be held during UN/CEFACT's Forum meeting in Dublin 26th - 30th March 2007.

Participation

Those who like to participate in the project, please sign up at our web site, provide at your "User's Profile" the following information:

*+Communication+*
- *Mobile:*
- *Phone:*
- *Fax:*

*+Address:+*
\\ \\

-

*+Level of Participation+*
"member" or "observer"

And click the button "Join this UMM project?" at the project details side: UMM - UNCEFACT Modeling Methodology

Participation in this project is open to all interested parties. Participation can be at the member or observer level. Observers will be allowed full access to and involvement in all discussions. Voting is restricted to members.

Guideline You'll find a detailed guideline for registration and participation at the following link: Guideline#Guideline-1.SignUpandJoining

End of Call of Participation

The call of participation will end at 30th March 2007

Further Information

If you need further information, don't hesitate and ask

• Project chair: Christian Huemer — huemer@tuwien.ac.at
• Secretary: Jim Wilson — jim.wilson@kcx.com
• TMG Chair: Gunther Stuhec — gunther.stuhec@sap.com

Kind Regards,

Christian Huemer

Title	TMG Steering Committee Telephone Conference
Date	12.04.2007
Start Time	14:00 - Timezone: CET
End Time	16:00 - Timezone: CET
Note Taker	Gunther Stuhec
Participants	Jim Wilson; Mark Crawford; Gunther Stuhec; Christian Huemer; Jens Dietrich; Steve Capell

Agenda

Meeting Results

Web Side --> Next Steps and Official Announcement

All future comments should be submitted to the webside directly.

Highly encourage all team leaders using confluence only.

Jim will try to install and configure JIRA by 20.04.2007.

Steve will help Jim in installing and configuring JIRA

Christian: Should zip the content of the www.untmg.org

Every team lead should call someone, who is responsible for the future website activities

"News" information from www.untmg.org should be transferred by every project lead.

Jim will define the domain www.unstrandards.org that can be used immediately and generaly

We need "official publication" and a "working website":

• The CEN website should be the official publication and provide
  • the official documents
  • public reviews
  • public announcements
  • link to the working website
• The confluence should be the working website with a link to the CEN website

All project leads should be responsible for submitting copies to Alain for public posting at CEN website.

Report for UN/CEFACT Plenary

Every team lead should write some sentences regarding their important activities and next steps at their projects.

UPCC - UML Profile for Core Components

Decision of New Dehli: The BCSS should be moved into CCWG and define a new name.

Gunther will rearrange the confluence website (move BCSS stuff to CCWG area).

The current specification should be closed by the september (finalization of ODP6 in July, and ODP 7 in September).

The specification that is based on CCTS V3.0 and UML V2.0 should be started immediately after the final release of current verion. The process should follow thenew ODP. 

BPSS - Business Process Scheme Specification

Leave only some information and the spec, but no project details anymore.

Some additional information should refer to the OASIS BPSS activities and future specs.

Jens will ask Christian, what should we provide on website (especially regarding OASIS).

UBAC - Unified Business Agreements and Contracts Specification

FMG agreed that UBAC should be transferred to LG.

Gunther will officially ask for transfer of UBAC to LG. If everyone will agree, than Gunther will inform FMG that UBAC will be officially transferred.

UMM - UNCEFACT Modeling Methodology

Christian will send UMM Requirements List to Gunther

ODP 3 will start at beginning of May

Christian will ask the UMM members to push the button "Jouin this UMM project".

The draft spec will be written within two month.

CCTS - Core Components Technical Specification

The CCTS spec will be publicly submitted for next iteration of public review by 16.04.2007. The public review period will be 30 days.

The rules comparison excel spreadsheet will be submitted afterwards (after cleaning up the rules).

We will use the excel spreadsheet for the comments

Mark will provide the excel spreadsheet template, and the document that will go out on Monday by tommorrow.

Jim will review the excel spreadsheet template beforehand.

Jim will write some text for public announcement of the public review.

Gunther will submit announcement text + specification to the bureau and Alain Dechamps on Monday.

COD - Conformance and Compliance Definition

Gunther: Will ask Andrew about the call for participation.

EBAS - Electronic Business Architecture Specification

The EBAS should consider two parts:

• Technical specs. + methodologies and their priorities (higher priority)
• Business content + libraries (lower priority)

Steve: In terms of selling UN/CEFACT has especially the business content part a higher priority. Therefore will Steve do some efforts on the content area at the same time.

Gunther will ask the FMG that the Project Proposal will be on the agenda on the call on Monday (16.04.2007).

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Agenda

1. - Welcome
2. - Agree on agenda
3. - Select note taker
4. - Review Open Action Items
5. - Review of formulations in existing requirement draft
   (see: http://75.43.29.149:8080/display/public/UCM+-+Requirements+List)
6. - Implementing requirements proposal from Dublin into draft
7. (see: http://75.43.29.149:8080/display/public/2007/04/10/UCM+-+Meeting+-+30.03.2007+-+Meeting+Notes
8. - Status with regard to additional contributions
9. - Other business
10. - Next meeting (it is proposed weekly schedule with another recurring bi-weekly meeting Thursdays 18:00-19:00 CET)

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Title	CCTS - ODP 5 - Review of Draft
Subject	Review of implementations into draft, next steps
Date	13.04.2007
Start Time	13:00 – Timezone: CET
End Time	16:00 – Timezone: CET
Note Taker	Gunther Stuhec
Participants	Anthony B. Coates, Mark Crawford, Gunther Stuhec See also: CCTS - ODP 5 - Meeting Participation

Agenda

Meeting Results

Last review of draft document before announcement of next iteration of public review

See: http://75.43.29.149:8080/download/attachments/3801818/Specification+CCTS3p0+2nd+Public+Review+16+AprilFinalDraft12Apr.doc?version=1

We reviewed the two definitions, the new document references (UMM + DT Catalogue + UML Profile for Core Components (formerly BCSS))

We reviewed the two revised association figures. Mark changed all the figures into a non UML notation, which we are generally accepted.

We reviewed the five remaining examples, where Mark taken from CCL D.06B whereever was possible.

Activities for public announcement

Mark will provide a Excel spreadsheet for comment log. He will send it to Jim, because Jim will align this spreadsheet with the new ODP.

Jim will write some text for public announcement, and will provide it to Gunther

Mark will remind Jim to get the comment log spreadsheet and the announcement text, today.

  Gunther will assemble a package The announcement package will be:

• Newest version of CCTS V3.0 (pdf version with line numbers)
• New excel spredsheet of comment log
• Last version of comment log
• Rules comparison list

Lists and persons that will get the announcement on Monday, 16th April, 2007:

• FMG
• Secretariat
• General TMG list
• Alain Dechamp for providing on public TMG website

(!) The review period will end on May 15th, 2007. The comments should be submitted to the chair and editor.

Next activities with rules comparison list

Mark will do the final review of the comparison list (especially with the last four rules that were changed) til 13.04.2007

The comparison list will be also part of the announcement package.

The icons have following meanings: – Decision that may have an impact to the project or group. – Action Item for a specific group or person

Next Meetings

The TMG is pleased to announce the approval of the project proposal to Define Conformance to UN/CEFACT Artefacts.

Purpose

The purpose of this project is to provide the global user community a set of guidelines that can be used to provide level of confidence in the alignment of available technical solutions to UN/CEFACT approved artefacts.
There are three planned phases to this project. 

• The first phase of the project is to define a set of common terminology that will be used to provide clarity for this project.  For example, multiple definitions exist for Compliance and Conformance, but only one set of definitions can be used for this project.
• The second phase of the project includes a review of UN/CEFACT artefacts to classify the important aspects of each artefact and it's relevance to Compliance/Conformance (as defined).  The final result of this phase is a matrix that clearly outlines each artefact and is used as the basis of the third phase.
• The third phase of the project is to determine the need for levels of Compliance/Conformance.  Each level will be defined and the matrix of artefacts will be tied to these levels for simplicity and clarity.  This clarity is for both those interested in attaining a specific level and for the general public to understand what each level means.

Please find full text of the project proposal at COD - Project Proposal.

The project is conducted within UN/CEFACT's Techniques & Methodologies Group (TMG) at the working group EBAWG.

The project leader is Andrew Hearn

First Meeting

A first meeting of the project team will at 26.04.2007, at 10:00 EST which is an initial Telephone Conference by an Interwise Event. You will get the invitation soon.

Participation

Those who like to participate in the project, please sign up at our web site, provide at your "User's Profile" the following information:

*+Communication+*
- *Mobile:*
- *Phone:*
- *Fax:*
 *+Address:+*
\\
\\
*+Level of Participation+*
"member" or "observer"

And click the button "Join this COD project?" at the project details side: COD - Conformance and Compliance Definition
Participation in this project is open to all interested parties. Participation can be at the member or observer level. Observers will be allowed full access to and involvement in all discussions. Voting is restricted to members.

Guideline You'll find a detailed guideline for registration and participation at the following link: User Guideline - 1. Sign Up and Joining

End of Call of Participation

The call of participation will end at 07.05.2007

Further Information

If you need further information, don't hesitate and ask

• Project chair: Andrew Hearn — Andrew.Hearn@gs1.org
• Secretary: Jim Wilson — jim.wilson@kcx.com
• TMG Chair: Gunther Stuhec — gunther.stuhec@sap.com
  

Kind Regards,

Andrew Hearn
 

UN/CEFACT TMG is pleased to announce the release of Core Components Technical Specification (CCTS) Version 3 for second public review. The comments phase of this second public review will be from 16 April 2007 until 15 May 2007.

CCTS describes and specifies a semantic-based approach to the well-understood problem of the lack of information interoperability within and between applications and data bases in the e-business arena. It focuses expecially on a dynamic, flexible and interoperable way of standardizing business semantics of libraries for electronic business data exchange. Therefore, CCTS describes a revolutionary approach for developing a common set of semantic building blocks that represent the general types of business data in use today. This approach provides for the creation of new business vocabularies as well as restructuring of existing business vocabularies to achieve semantic interoperability of data. It defines meta models, and rules necessary for describing the structure and contents of conceptual and logical, and physical data models that can be used for collaborative business processes and information exchange.

UN/CEFACT has an open approach to developing its standards.  This open approach has five goals:

• Openness - All specifications must be open, free of any constraints or restrictions associated with intellectual property rights (IPR).
• World - wide Participation - All interested parties should have the opportunity to review, comment on, and contribute to Technical Specifications.
• Speed - In an area increasingly moving "at Internet speed", it is vitally important that the process of developing specifications be speedy so that the resultant specifications are relevant to the needs of the industry, developers, and users.
• Compatibility - Technical Specifications must not depend on features that are available only on one application or industry specification. Software developers and end-users around the world must be able to depend on technical applications that can be implemented the same way, and give the same results, on all hardware platforms and operating systems.
• Technical Excellence - UN/CEFACT working groups will develop all Technical Specifications with the active participation of experts, and liaisons.

The UN/CEFACT Open Development Process (ODP) calls for a eight step approach to developing UN/CEFACT Standards. These eight steps are: 

1. Proposal
2. Requirements Determination
3. First Draft
4. Working Drafts
5. Public Review
6. Implementation Verification
7. Approval The UN/CEFACT
8. Maintenance

The CCTS is currently at Step 5 - Public Review - 2nd Iteration. This version incorporates all appropriate comments submitted since the first public review period. This second round of public review is essential to moving the document forward to Step 6 - Implementation Verification.  Interested parties are asked to review the document for technical correctness and submit comments using provided submission template.

Documents for Public Review 

The provided and to be reviewed documents of this public review are:

Document	Link	Action
CCTS V3.0 Draft Version for Public Review	Specification_CCTS3p0 2nd Public Review 16APR2007.pdf	Draft Specification - Must be reviewed
Comment Log Template	CommentLog_CCTS 3p0 2nd Public Review Comment Submission.xls	Should be used for comments
Rules Comparison List of the rules between CCTS V 2.01 and CCTS V 3.0 Draft Version	Contribution_Rules_Compare_04APR07.xls	Could be used for comparison with rules of former version (CCTS V2.01)
Comment Log of the 1st Iteration of Public Review	Comment Log After 1st Iteration	Could be used for comparison with comments of the 1st iteration of public review

Submission of Comments 

Comments are due by 15 May 2007, and should be submitted to Project Lead and editor, and/or to the TMG web site as follows:

• Project Lead: Gunther Stuhec Mail: gunther.stuhec@sap.com
• Lead Editor: Mark Crawford Mail: mark.crawford@sap.com
• TMG Website
  1. Use Filename: "CommentLog_CCTS_V3.0_PublicDraft_<yourname>_<submissionDate>.xls
  2. Go to Link: CCTS - ODP 5 - Public Review
  3. Go to the part "Presentation and Upload" at the tab "Information"
  4. Click on [Browse...] and browse through your files and select the file you'd like to attach.
  5. Enter a description for the attachment in the left text field (optional).
  6. Click on [Attach]

Participation

Those who like to actively participate for the next steps of this project, please *sign up at our* web site, provide at your "User's Profile" the following information:

*+Communication+*
- *Mobile:*
- *Phone:*
- *Fax:*
 *+Address:+*
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*+Level of Participation+*
"member" or "observer"

Guideline You'll find a detailed guideline for registration and participation at the following link: User Guideline - 1. Sign Up and Joining

Kind regards,
Gunther Stuhec
TMG Chair, and CCTS Project Lead
Jim Wilson
TMG CCWG Chair
Mark Crawford
CCTS Lead Editor

The UN/CEFACT TMG is preparing a new web site, which is based on Atlassion Confluence. Especially these enterprise wiki based approach helps the TMG to improve significantly the daily standardization work and to collaborate and share all the required information for these work. Especially every active and passive project member of the CCMA project should actively sign-up and join the CCMA project at TMG web site:

1. Sign up: http://75.43.29.149:8080/signup.action
2. Join the CCMA project: http://75.43.29.149:8080/display/public/CCMA+-+Core+Components+Message+Assembly

How you have to sign up and join the CCMA project will be explained in detail at the user guideline: http://75.43.29.149:8080/display/public/Guideline#Guideline-1.SignUpandJoining

Why Joining this CCMA Project? 

If you join the CCMA project, you will get:

• Additional authorization for this web-site that includes uploading of documents, direct editing, ...
• Access to all required information of the CCMA project
• Newsletters about meetings, and activities
• Guarantee that you'll be listed at all required mailing-lists
• Project specifc online tracking of your contributions and comments, which will be considered for the future status of your membership and participants list at the CCMA specification

Which Information will be Provided? 

The new TMG web site has a well prepared structure for a better overview, for getting all information by a view clicks, and centralized finding of all required information regarding the CCMA project.  Additionally, the UN/CEFACT TMG will only use this web tool for showing and tracking the future progress of the CCMA project. Especially this web site provides the following information that can be reached by a view clicks:

• Overview information about CCMA [http://75.43.29.149:8080/display/public/CCMA+-+Core+Components+Message+Assembly]
  • the scope 
  • the project chair, and project lead 
  • the project (ODP) status
  • the duration and progress of each ODP status, and
  • the aim of a specific year,.
• Detailed information about each ODP step that includes (click on each project step)
  • all relevant information
  • all attachements that belong to the ODP step
  • all meeting information that belong to the ODP step
  • tracking information about the activities of the members

How will the Content be Provided? 

In order to eliminate the rank growth of different types of documents and decentralized storage of content, it is useful to edit the most of the relevant information directly at this web-site. Therefore, the  TMG website provides a number of templates that can be directly used for:

• Project proposal
• Requirements list
• Call for participation
• Call for contribution
• Meeting invitation and agenda
• Meeting minutes
• Comment log
• ....

The detailed user guideline gives you more information about the new TMG website: http://75.43.29.149:8080/display/public/Guideline

If you need further assistance or information, please don't hesitate and ask me.

Kind regards,

Gait Boxman

PROJ - ODP2 - Meeting 19.04.2007 - Minutes

Note Taker	Øyvind Aassve
Participants	Gunther Stuhec, Anthony B. Coates, Mark Crawford

Agenda

Meeting Results

Agree on agenda

Due to the fact that more contributions are expected with regards to requirements, we should rather focus on the structuring of the working draft. Therefore we will focus the agenda on this and the next meeting.

Select note taker

Øyvind Aassve

Review Open Action Items

Review of formulations in existing requirement draft

Postponed til after requirements contribution deadline.

Implementing requirements proposal from Dublin into draft

Postponed til after requirements contribution deadline.

Status with regard to additional requirements contributions

There are still IPR-issues to deal with. There is still hope that these issues will be resolved within the requirements deadline in about two weeks.

Other business

Structuring of the working draft document

Structuring of the document was made the main topic of the meeting.

Use of Confluence

Question: Could we use Confluence in the specification development process? How suitable is Confluence for big documents?.
Advantage: All information available in a central easy, always accesible spot, always up to date, handles change tracking, enables separate versioning for the different pages.
Disadvantage: No page numbers?

Proposal: We will try to use Confluence and if necessary we split it into several pages. At given stages we can put them togheter into a single PDF. It will be interesting to test out how Confluence is for developing documents.
There is however raised an issue in fmg that says all development in un/cefact should be done in ODF.

   Decision: Use Confluence until other decision from fmg.

  Action Point: Mark sends generic spec template to Tony.

  Action Point: Tony implements the Confluence-pages for this template.  

Document structure

The main outline of the spec is proposed to be: 

Introduction

How context drivers works and their purpose (non-normative).

Metamodel (normative)

Methodology - rules and logic (normative)

• Consider assembly approach
• Governance and harmonizaton
• Extension and maintenace
• Design time and run-time

Context categorization (normative)

References to related standards

• How to handle relation to SBDH

Appendix:

• Migration Path for current context drivers
  
  

Next meeting

Next meeting: May 3.

Agenda: Handle contributions/ submissions if any has  been received.
Continue working on outline of working draft.

Final deadline for requirements contributions will be set on this meeting.

Next Meetings