WPC 2NB Z ?0I Minutes of February Meeting X3L8 Bruce BargmeyerBruce Bargmeyer /XX6X@X@ЫX6X@X@h 9Z#.Courier New RegularXu\  PP@ Z6Times New Roman RegularXN\  PXP@ Z6Times New Roman RegularXXN\  PXP@ Z6Times New Roman RegularXXN\  PXP@ Z6Times New Roman RegularXXN\  PXP@ Z6Times New Roman RegularXXN\  PXP@ Z6Times New Roman RegularXXN\  PXP@ Z6Times New Roman RegularXXN\  PXP@ Z6Times New Roman RegularX23|x #u\  PP#  Minutes NinetyFourth Meeting of X3L8 Data Representation #XN\  PXP#  Date: February 16, 1996 The X3L8 Plenary meeting was preceded by X3L8 SIG meetings February 14 and 15. It was preceded and followed by a SIG meeting on February 16.) Place: Information Technology Industry (ITI) Council Second Floor 1250 Eye Street Washington, D.C. The meeting was called to order at 10:30 a.m. by Phong Ngo, Chair of X3L8. 1.0 Administrative Matters 1.1 Minutes of Previous Meeting. The minutes of the last meeting were approved as distributed. 1.2 Approval of the Agenda. The agenda was approved as revised. 1.3 Membership attendance list and address list. The membership list was circulated for revision. See Attachment 1 for a list of attendees. 1.4 Officers The IR position is open. It was agreed that we will reduce the clerical burden on by the IR by requesting other members to handle such tasks. In particular, the document distribution will be handled by another X3L8 member, currently the Chair. Recording of comments to be sent to the Secretariat and JTC1 will be handled by Bruce Bargmeyer or Phong Ngothe comments will be sent to the IR for forwarding. With this agreement on tasks, Mr. Paul Hawes will apply for the position. A motion was made that we accept Paul Hawes as IR, pending his employers approval and filing of the appropriate documents. Passed: 6090 (yesnototal membersno response) 1.5 Document Distribution Documents were previously distributed. 2.0 Reports 2.1 Report on Paris SC14 and SC14/WG4 meetings Paul Hawes, the new convener of SC14/WG4, reported on the WG4 and SC14 meetings. The report and recommendations of the WG4 and SC14 meeting are on the X3L8 FTP site (see bottom of this report) and on the X3L8 home page: http://www.lbl.gov/~olken/X3L8.html Considerable progress was made at the SC14 and WG4 meetings on all current projects and new work was begun. The next WG4 meeting will be held in Washington D.C. from May 20 to May 23, 1996. Notices of the details are being sent out. 2.2 Report on X3L8 SIG meetings held at NIST Phong Ngo reported on the SIG meetings. The meeting reports are up on the X3L8 FTP site and on the X3L8 home page. 2.3 Report on status of terminology Dan Gillman reported that terminology was discussed during the SIG meeting as part of the review of ISO/IEC 11179, Part 1. 2.4 Liaison Report on the Project(s) of former Task Group X3L8.4Geographic Units The Chair will contact Roger Paine to establish the status of this project. 2.5 Report on T1M1 activities (Telecommunications Industry) Paul Hawes reported on the T1M1 activities. He noted the statement made in the X3L8 meeting minutes for September 1995. He stated that the geographic identifier, developed by ITU, and being reviewed by T1M1 is a data composite. Members present observed that the intelligence built into the identifier is counter to good data design principles. T1M1 is also working on managed objects. They are using an ISO scheme for registering the managed objects. Paul Hawes will be going to a T1M1 meeting to discuss how the X3L8 metamodel might be applied to their work. The next T1M1 meeting is May 14, 1996. 2.6 Liaison Report on X3H4 activities Judith Newton reported on X3H4 activities. The committee has not met since the last report. Some work is proceeding on the OMG RFP for repository services. NIST is dropping their membership on the committee and Judith will no longer be able to give liaison reports. 2.7 Liaison Report on NISO activities Phong Ngo met with Pat Harris, Executive Director of NISO. There appears to be some areas of mutual interest. We would like to invite NISO members to our next SIG meeting. X3L8 has a liaison responsibility for ISO 3166, country codes. 2.8 Liaison Report on IDEF activities Judith Newton is no longer a member of the IEEE IDEF1x committee. The liaison report will be dropped. 2.9 Liaison Report on X12, EDI activities Paul Hawes attended the last X12 meeting and reported on it. Over 1,000 people attended. He is now an official member of the liaison task group. He is also a member of several other task groups. He will attempt to show X12 how our work might resolve their needs and will bring back x12 requirements to X3L8. 2.10 Informal report on SC30 Paul Hawes reported on the US TAG to SC30 meeting which were held concurrently at the same location as the X12 meetings. The US TAG to SC30 agreed to propose to SC30 that the X3L8 metamodel be included in conjunction with their framework document. 2.11 Informal report on ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) Phong Ngo reported that members of the ASTM group modeling health care information are potentially interested in the X3L8 work. Phong Ngo is arranging for possible cooperation. 2.12 Informal report on the BSR The BSR came up several times during the meeting. Bruce Bargmeyer announced that Denis Hill and #XN\  PXP# Francois Vuilleumier will be here later this month. A meeting is being arranged for February 29th for several people to meet with them. X3L8 members were invited to attend. The meeting will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at NIST North (See below for directions on how to get to NIST North). #XN\  PXP# 3.0 Status of Projects  3.1 Status of Data Element Classification and Attribution Project (X3 Project 399DT and 400DT), (concurrent work as ISO 11179), and status of Mnemonic Codes Algorithm (X3 Project 455D) Parts 35 are IS status. Progress on parts 1, 2 and 6 is described in the SIG report. 3.2 Status of X3L8 Metamodel for Data Representation (X3 Project 1125D) The draft is out for initial public review, January 19 through March 19. Progress is described in the report of the SIG meeting. 3.3 New Work Item proposals The NWI items were sent to the Secretariat and the Secretariat has sent them to JTC1 for issuance of the Ballot. New work agreed to in the Paris SC14 meeting includes: #XN\  PXP# Resolution 956, Study period for Metamodel JTC 1/ SC 14 resolves to adopt recommendation 4 of JTC1/SC14/WG4 working group meeting held in Paris, France, October 2326, 1995 to approve Study Period Underway for Metamodel for the Management of Sharable Data preparatory to development of a NP. Assign study effort to SC14/WG4. UNANIMOUS Resolution 957, NP for Data Registration JTC 1/ SC 14 resolves to adopt recommendation 5 of JTC1/SC14/WG4 working group meeting held in Paris, France, October 2326, 1995 to instruct the US NB to prepare NP for development of a Technical Report for Data Registration Concept and Operations. UNANIMOUS Resolution 958, Study on Internet and WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW) JTC 1/ SC 14 resolves to adopt recommendation 6 of JTC1/SC14/WG4 working group meeting held in Paris, France, October 2326, 1995, hereby instructs JTC1/SC14/WG4 to initiate a Study Period Underway preparatory for development of Technical Reports and/or standards concerning metadata for Internet and the World Wide Web. Assign effort to SC14/WG4. UNANIMOUS Resolution 959 SC14 email reflectors JTC 1/ SC 14 resolves to adopt recommendation 6 of JTC1/SC14/WG4 working group meeting held in Paris, France, October 2326, 1995 to"replace SC14/WG4 email reflector with two reflectors: SC14mail and SC14news. The former for internal documents and the latter for broad circulation of documents. US NB to operate.#XN\  PXP# 3.4 Reaffirmation of standards X3.31, X3.38, X3.47 Bruce Bargmeyer moved that we accept documents X3.31, X3.38, and X3.47 for publishing. Paul Hawes seconded. Passed: 6090 4.0 IR Responses to SIS through CBEMA and ANSI 4.1 IR Responses to SIS through ITI and ANSI All the required actions have been accomplished. These are described in the National Report to the SC14 meeting. 4.2 Future international meetings (Re: US as host) Bruce Bargmeyer said that EPA would sponsor the meeting. The appropriate paperwork will be sent. 4.3 Vote on ISO 6523 Dan Gillman moved that we vote to approve the CD 652, Parts 1 and 2 ballot, with general comments on Part 11. Bruce Bargmeyer will prepare the comments per the direction given in the SIG meeting. John McCarthy seconded. Passed: 6090 4.4 Comment on SC14 secretariat and chairpersons reports to JTC1 The committee wishes to convey its support of the SC 14 Secretariats report to JTC1 and the SC14 Secretarys report to JTC1 and of the work and actions envisioned. The chair will communicate this to Regina Girrard. 5.0 New Business 5.1 SIG Mr. Phong Ngo has chaired the SIG meetings in the past. Since he has become Chair of X3L8 he wishes to pass this responsibility on. Paul Hawes moved that the committee accept Dan Gillman as the Chair of any SIG meetings and that Dan be empowered to call the meetings at such times and place and on such subjects as required. Further, that Judith Newton shall act in this capacity whenever Dan Gillman cannot. Seconded by John McCarthy. Passed: 6090 5.2 General direction of X3L8 We agreed that we will review the scope of work for X3L8 at the next X3L8 meeting. The official scope statement may be obsolete, given the direction of the committees current work. Paul Hawes had a discussion with Stacy Leistner of ANSI. It appears that ANSI desires us to drop ANSI standards which can adequately be replaced by ISO standards. We agreed that we should do this whenever possible, especially at the time of the five year review for any X3L8 standard. Furthermore, when ISO standards, for any ISO committee, come up for review, we should make comments which will help the ISO standard to accommodate the requirements covered by existing ANSI standards, so that the ANSI standard can be subsequently dropped. 6.0 Future Meeting Schedule Note change: March 1315, 1996 SIG meeting at NIST North Note change: April 2224, 1996 SIG meeting at NIST North May 1617, 1996 SIG meeting at NIST North ` ` ` May 2023, 1996 SC14/WG4 meeting in D.C. (BLS Conference Center) ` ` ` Note Place change: June 1214, 1996 at ITI (SIG meeting on June 1213 and X3L8 Plenary on June 14)  ` ` ` September 1113, 1996 at NIST North( SIG meetings on September 1112. X3L8 Plenary is September 13.) #XN\  PXP#Directions to NIST North: NIST North is Building 820. The address of this building is 820 West Diamond Avenue. Note that the building is located across the street from the main campus of NIST. Instead of turning onto Bureau Drive toward the main Gate of NIST, turn the opposite direction (North) onto Bureau Drive and take the second possible right turn to get to the NIST North building, The building has the name NIST on it in large letters. (From Interstate 270, driving North, take Exit 10, which loops under the freeway, and then turn RIGHT at the first stop lightthis is the intersection of West Diamond Avenue and Bureau drive.)#XN\  PXP# 7.0 Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 2:20 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. Many of the documents are also listed on the X3L8 Home Page http://www.lbl.gov/~olken/X3L8 Attachment 1 Attendees: Bruce Bargmeyer  EPA Dan Gillman` `  Bureau of Census Paul Hawes` `  Bellcore John McCarthy LBNL Judith Newton NIST Phong Ngo` `  SAIC Geoff Steele` `  EPA