WPC 2MB Z ?0I Minutes of February Meeting X3L8 Bruce BargmeyerBruce Bargmeyer /HP LaserJet IIIHPPCL5MSX6X@X@ЫX6X@X@h 9Z#.Courier New RegularXXN\  PXP@ Z6Times New Roman RegularXu\  PP@ Z6Times New Roman RegularXN\  PXP@ Z6Times New Roman RegularXXx6X@X@< 9Z .Courier New RegularXXN\  PXP@ Z6Times New Roman RegularX23|x#XN\  PXP# #u\  PP#  Minutes NinetySecond Meeting of X3L8 Data Representation #XN\  PXP#  Date: June 15, 1995 Place: Information Technology Industry (ITI) Council 1250 Eye Street Washington, D.C. 1.0 Administrative Matters The meeting was convened at 9:30 a.m. 1.1 Minutes of Previous Meeting The minutes were approved as drafted. 1.2 Approval of the Agenda The agenda was approved after adding several items. 1.3 Membership The attendance list and address list were circulated. A copy of the attendance list is provided as Attachment 1 of these minutes. The membership list is also available on the X3L8 WWW Home Page: http://www.lbl.gov/~olken/x3l8.html 1.4 Officers Nothing to report. 1.5 Document Distribution The following documents were distributed at this meeting or by prior mailing:  2.0 Reports 2.1 Report on ISO/IEC SC 14/WG 4 Meeting in Buzios, Brazil May, 1995 Bill Kenworthey, WG 4 Convener, briefly reported on the progress achieved at the meeting. This is documented in the reports of the meeting, on the FTP server (see below for access information). These are in directory x3l8/sc14docs, with filenames wg4rpt.wp5 and wg4rcmd.wp5 2.2 Report of X3L8 SIG meetings held at NIST Phong Ngo reported on the progress made at these meetings. The progress is further described in the meeting reports, which are up on the X3L8 anonymous FTP server. See files in directory x3l8/x3l8docs with filenames such as meet0695.wp5 2.3 Report on status of terminology Dan Gillman reported on this effort. Changes are being made as he edits the document for the next draft per recommendations from the last WG4 meeting. 2.5 Liaison Report on the Project(s) of former Task Group X3L8.4Geographic Units No Report 2.6 Report on T1M1 activities No Report 2.6 Liaison Report on X3H4 activities Judy Newton reported that X3H4 is meeting next week. The future of X3H4 is still unclear. It is meeting with the Object Management Group discussing an RFI (and possible subsequent RFP) for object repository technology. 2.7 Liaison Report on NISO activities The next international meeting of TC 42 will occur in Washington, Sept 2729, 1995 to discuss NISO ISO 3166, Codes for Names of Countries. 2.8 Report on IDEF Judy Newton reported that there is a new draft of IDEF1x. 2.9 Report on CDIF & SC7/WG11 Peter Eirich appears to be standing down from the position of Chair of SC7/WG11. This could impact the work on standardizing the X3L8 Metamodel for Data Representation. Tammy Kirkendall has left NIST and therefore our work to translate the X3L8 Metamodel for Data Representation is in limbo. There is concern about the viability of the SC14/WG11, CDIF, X3L8 collaboration. 3.0 Status of Projects The classification work has been subsumed by the 11179 effort. 3.1 Status of Mnemonic Codes Algorithm (X3 Project 455D) No progress. 3.2 Status of ISO 11179 (Parts 16) Bill Kenworthey and the editors reported on the projects. The status of these projects are documented in the SIG meeting minutes and report of the SC14/WG4 meeting. Considerable progress is being made. 3.4 Status of the SD3 for X3L8 Metamodel for Data Representation The SD3 for this project has been approved, per telecon between Bill Kenworthey and ITI staff. Paul Hawes obtained a copy of the approval as listed in the X3 document Summary for followup on X3 Letter Ballots, dated May 29, 1995. The project was approved in LB#2601, Approval of X3/950209R, Project Proposal, Metamodel for Data Representation. 3.5 Status of the MOU between X3L8 and CDIF A copy of the MOU, signed by the Chair of X3L8, was given to Tammy Kirkendall, who delivered it to the CDIF committee. Judy will check with Alan and Tammy to see if CDIF has signed this document. 3.6 Status of fiveyear review of X3.38, X3.31, and X3.47 (X3L8 Ballots) These standards were sent out for public review. The review period ends July 11, 1995. 4.0 IR Responses to SIS through CBEMA and ANSI 5.0 New Business 5.1 Liaison with ANSI X12 It was moved By Bruce Bargmeyer and seconded by Phong Ngo that Paul Hawes be established as liaison to X12 . Paul is requested to contact X12 to arrange this. 5.2 Document Distribution Phong Ngo will handle distribution of the X3L8 documents. Karen Kirkbride and Bill Kenworthey will send documents to Phong expeditiously. Nancy Dukes may distribute selected items as requested. 5.3 X3L8 Meetings. We discussed how to expeditiously handle actions between official X3L8 meetings. Phong Ngo moved and Dan Gillman seconded that the SIG can recommend actions and develop comments on documents. The votes of members shall be recorded. These will be forwarded to the Chair of X3L8 who will contact any additional members to complete the official vote. 5.4 Recommendation for messages: For any messages needing action, include X3L8" in the message subject. 5.3 Review of Metamodel The group requested Paul Hawes to prepare a package to send out for public review. Paul passed it out as X3L8/95012. Paul will prepare the material for the September meeting. 5.4 Review of documents due for a fiveyear review. A list was reviewed of standards that need review. The only standard that needs fiveyear review is X3.30:1985 [R1991], Representation of Calendar Date and Ordinal Date for Information Interchange. The standard will be sent to Phong Ngo for distribution. 5.5 ISO/IEC N775 Open EDI Reference Bruce Bargmeyer should send out message suggested by SIG. 5.6 ISO/IEC N 776 Computational Aids in Terminology We will review this at the next SIG meeting. It appears interesting. 5.7 Next SC14 meeting. The meeting will be held at Paris, France October 2327, 1995. 5.8 Review of ISO/IEC SC14 N 778, Periodic Review of ISO 5218:1977, confirmation, revision or withdrawal of ISO 5218, Information interchange Representation of human sexes. It was agreed to recommend to the X3L8 plenary that we vote on the questions as follows: Question 1, Is this the best possible solution .... ` ` Answer: No ` ` ` Question 2, Is actual practice consistent with the ISO standard?` ` Answer: No ` ` ` Question 3, Are you in favor of Revision? ` ` Answer: Yes (see comment below) ` ` ` Question 4, Are you prepared to participate in development? ` ` ` Answer: Yes Frank will send a comment to Karen Kirkbride to add to the ballot. 5.9 ISO/IEC N779, Terminology workPrinciples and methods We will review this at the next SIG meeting. 5.10 SC14 Chair The chair of X3L8 will send X3 a letter stating the support of the X3L8 for the nomination of Bruce Bargmeyer to Chair of SC 14. 5.11 Thanks Phong Ngo moved and it was unanimously acclaimed that we desire to express appreciation to the Bill Kenworthey, Convener of SC14/WG4, for the excellent meeting arrangements for the Buzios WG4 meeting. We take note of his gracious leadership, which guided the group through contentious issues in a highly productive manner. It is recognized that WG4, under his leadership, is carrying the major work load of SC14 projects. 7.0 Future Meeting Schedule X3L8 SIG: July 1921, 1995 at NIST X3L8: September 1314, 1995 at ITI X3L8 Plenary: September 15 at ITI X3L8 SIG: October 1011 at ITI SC14 and SC14/WG4 October 2327 at Paris, France X3L8 SIG: November 30 December 1 at NIST X3L8 SIG: February 78, 1995 at NIST X3L8 Plenary: February 9, 1995 at NIST 8.0 Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 1:30 p.m. X3L8 documents, including this meeting report, are available via Anonymous FTP from speckle.ncsl.nist.gov. Change directory to x3l8 (X3L8 in lower case letters) and check the "readme" file for details. This report is on the X3L8 FTP server in directory x3l8/x3l8docs with filename 06l8min.wp5. Note that is X3L8DOCS and 06L8MIN in lower case letters. #Xx6X@X@#Attachment 1 Attendees: Bruce Bargmeyerhh#EPA Phil Diamond hh#VA Doug Evalenko hh#LANL Dan Gillman hh#Bureau of Census Paul Hawes hh#Bellcore William Kenworthey, Jr.hh#Self John Kokernak Jr.hh#GRC Karen Kirkbridehh#Self Judith Newton hh#NIST Phong Ngo` `  hh#SAIC Frank Olken hh#LBL Jim Pipher hh#DOD David Stowell hh#StAI #XN\  PXP#