L8 Plenary Meeting Minutes

February 20, 2004

 

Location: ITIC, Suite 200, 1250 I st., NW, Washington, DC

 

Attendees:

Andy Schoka – Mitretek – schoka@mitretek.org

Dan Gillman (Chair) – BLS – Gillman.Daniel@bls.gov

Harry Delugach - delugach@cs.uah.edu

Doug Mann – Battelle – mannd@battelle.org

Laura J. Reece – Knowledge Solus – ljreece@knowsol.com

Gail Wright – Oracle Corp – gail.wright@oracle.com

Burt Parker – Palladin Engineering – parkerbg@mindspring.com

Jim Mercurio – US VA – james.mercurio@med.va.gov

Frank Farance (via phone) – Farance Inc – frank@farance.com

Jim Carpenter (via phone) - BLS – carpenterj@bls.gov

 

Agenda:

1)      Administrative Matters

a.)    Approval of the Agenda

Meeting opened and chaired by Dan Gillman at 9:20.  Agenda approved.  Dan asked Jim Mercurio to take the minutes.

b.)    Membership, attendance list, and address list

14 total members

c.)    Review of minutes of previous meeting

Ask for review through email and URL to files

December 2003 Plenary Minutes

2)      L8 Reports

a.)    Report on NCITS/L8 Task Group for Technical Development meetings (D. Gillman)

b.)    Report on NCITS/L8 matters (D. Gillman)

What is the official US interface to WG1?  Dan will contact M K Blantz about taking WG1.

c.)    Report on JTC1/SC32/WG2 matters (L. Fitzwater)

Doug – Ballots out for Part 5, 6.  4 out momentarily.  Numerous projects with missing documents.

d.)    Report on JTC1/SC32 matters (B. Bargmeyer)

Doug – Meeting 16 – 28 May in Xian China.  Web site www.cnis.gov.cn/openforum.  Open forum will be held the 16 – 18.  Farance will fund the secretariat, but cannot fund someone outside his company.  $25K plus travel is required.  Bruce has agreed to continue to as chair of SC32.

3)      Liaison Reports

a.)    ITS America (Andy)

Registry in hiatus.  Intellectual property rights are an issue.  Will be available to standards setting bodies only in the US.  Volpe will assume the ITS registry from IEEE, over the next few months.  Looking to address the usage of the registry.

b.)    TC204 (A. Schoka)

Data registry effort moving forward.  Important, many countries adopted std (ISO 14817).  UK, Aus, Jap are active.  Need place for international registry, as working groups are creating content for the standard.

c.)    OMG (B. Bargmeyer)

Doug – Still talking about passing MOF thru WG2.

d.)    W3C (B. Bargmeyer)

Doug – ebXML group folded into OASIS

e.)    TC211 and L1 (D. Gillman)

TC211 and L1 are working now on infrastructure and architecture, whereas before concentrating on content.

f.)      TC37 (D. Mann)

Revising ISO 860.  May be interested in our ontology work.

g.)    SC36 and V36 (F. Farance)

The next SC36 Plenary is scheduled for Montreal in March.

 

4)      Status of Projects

a.)    Status of ISO/IEC 11179-revision

                                                   i.      Part 1 – Framework (D. Gillman)

Ready for FDIS if comments are incorporated

                                                 ii.      Part 2 – Classification (J. Carpenter)

Jim in process writing version 2 document

                                                iii.      Part 3 – Registry Metamodel and Basic Attributes (D. Mann)

No plan for next draft.  Issues and US proposals being discussed for version 3

                                               iv.      Part 4 – Definitions (B. Bargmeyer)

FDIS document is imminent

                                                 v.      Part 5 - Naming and Identification (J. Newton)

Out for FCD ballot – send comments Jim M. by 27 Feb

                                               vi.      Part 6 – Registration (D. Mann)

Out for FCD ballot – send comments Jim M. by 27 Feb

b.)    Status of ISO/IEC TR20943

                                                   i.      Part 1 – Data Elements

Published

                                                 ii.      Part 2 – XML

We need to generate comments by 7 April – send comments to Jim M. by 7 April

                                                iii.      Part 3 – Value Domains

Will be published in 2004

                                               iv.      Part 4 – Framework

No draft yet

c.)    Status of ISO/IEC 11404 – General Purpose Datatypes

CD ballot closed and passed.  FCD is expected.

d.)    Status of ISO/IEC 20944 – Interoperability and Bindings

13 CD's are needed, expected to be completed in time for Xian

e.)    Status of ISO/IEC 24706 – Standards Metadata

Draft expected by end of Feb

f.)      Status of ISO/IEC 24707 – Common Logic

WD expected by end of Mar

g.)    Status of ISO/IEC 19763 Framework for Metamodel Interoperability

No ballots scheduled

 

h.)    Status of ISO/IEC 19773 Metadata Modules

No progress, drafts not yet available

 

5)      IR Activities

a.)    IR Report

L8 response to N7335.

 

Need to investigate and particpate on JTC1 study group on web services (chaired by Don Deutsch) – Frank, Andy, and Laura are going to follow work.  Need to investigate and participate on JTC1 study group on privacy (chaired John Hopkinson).

 

SC32 work on accommodation information – L8 may want to participate.

 

6)      New Business

a.)    Position on 11179 version 3 issues and proposal

Motion: Approve the document and send to WG2 as the US position

Mover – Frank; Seconder – Doug

Unanimous consent (9,0,0,14) – remove the items that don't have consensus

 

 

7)      Future Meeting Schedule - 2004

  • March 24 and 25 – L8 technical meeting
  • April 21,22,23 – L8 technical meeting and Plenary meeting
  • May 2004 WG2 Meeting in China
  • June 28 – 29  – L8 technical meeting
  • July 26 – 28  – L8 technical meeting and Plenary meeting
  • September 9 – 10  – L8 technical meeting
  • October 4 – 5  – L8 technical meeting and Plenary meeting
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8)      Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 2:15.