Draft
Agenda, 126th L8 Plenary and US TAG to JTC1/SC32/WG2 and WG1
Date:
Place: ITIC,
1250 I (eye) St, NW
Time:
1) Administrative Matters Meeting opened and chaired by Dan Gillman at
a) Approval
of the Agenda
Motion:
Farance moved, Schoka seconded agenda as amended.
Vote:
Unanimous consent
b) Membership,
attendance list, and address list
Andy Schoka – Mitretek – schoka@mitretek.org
Dan Gillman (Chair) – BLS – Gillman.Daniel@bls.gov
Judy Newton – Ashton Computing – jnewton@ashcomp.com
Gail Wright (via phone) – Oracle Corp – gail.wright@oracle.com
Jim Mercurio (via phone) – US VA – james.mercurio@med.va.gov
Frank Farance (via phone) – Farance Inc – frank@farance.com
Bruce Bargmeyer (via phone) – Lawrence - Berkeley National Laboratory
– bebargmeyer@lbl.gov
c) Review
of minutes of previous meeting
Motion: Farance moved,
Vote: Unanimous consent
2) L8 Reports
a) Report
on NCITS/L8 Task Group for Technical Development meetings (D. Gillman)
Discussion of 20944 in TG. Suggestion to read the parts in the following order: Part 1 (Framework), Subclause 7.1; Part 41 (C binding), Part 40 (general API binding); Part 3 (Conformance).
Discussion of 11179-3 revision in TG.
Discussion of 19773 metadata modules in TG.
Discussion of 24707 common logic in prior TG.
Limited discussion of 19763 metamodel framework in TG.
b) Report
on NCITS/L8 matters (D. Gillman)
Motion: Farance moved, Bargmeyer seconded: Disband the TG and merge its activities with L8 and combine the agendas, as appropriate.
Vote: Unanimous consent
c) Report
on JTC1/SC32/WG2 matters (L. Fitzwater)
Report by Bargmeyer: Next meeting in Berlin 2004-04-15 / 2004-04-22, Open Forum is 2004-04-11 / 2004-04-14.
Thanks to Dan Gillman for hosting the 2004-11 SC32/WG2 meeting at BLS.
Concern about Chinese delegates having their visa denied.
Progress made on several projects, including docs distributed.
d) Report
on JTC1/SC32 matters (B. Bargmeyer)
Appreciation for Bargmeyer's continuation as SC32 Chair.
e) Report
on JTC1/SC32/WG1 matters (P. Levine)
Gillman reported: Meeting in Tallinn, Estonia 2004-10-25 / 2004-10-29. Attendance by US. Uncertain of status on 15944-2 as to whether or not the project will be canceled.
Schoka reported: Recent UNECE CEFACT meeting and discussion at that meeting about intellectual property, process, procedure.
f) Report on
JTC1 matters (B. Bargmeyer)
Bargmeyer reported: Approved human sex standard for free availability. Terminology (2382) will be distributed to SCs. Uninterested in working on a document that will be for sale.
3) Liaison reports
a)
TC 204 (A. Schoka)
Schoka reported: Interested in establishing a data registry on 14817
(Intelligent Transport Systems -- Requirement for data dictionaries and data
registries).
b) OMG
(B. Bargmeyer)
Bargmeyer: Liaison meeting in conjunction with Berlin.
Gillman: L8 just approved MOF and XMI fast track ballots.
c) W3C
(B. Bargmeyer)
Bargmeyer: Contact with Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment.
d) TC
211 and L1 (D. Gillman)
Gillman: TC211 has said they are interested in developing a registry but no
reports of progress.
e) TC
37 (D. Mann)
Bargmeyer: TC37 asked SC32/WG2 to review certain terminology. No report on progress.
f) SC
36 and V36 (F. Farance)
Farance reported: SC36 has a new Chair, Mr. Bruce Peoples (US). SC36 has used 11179 in a variety of ways. The SC36 can make use of the 11179, 20943, 20944, and 19773 standards.
V36 will be submitting a report on accessibility and its integration with
ISO and JTC1 work. V36 will send a copy
to L8.
g) TC
154 (A. Schoka)
Schoka: Just complete fast track balloting document of 15000-5 Core Components technical specification (part of the EBXML framework). Concern expressed about with version of 11179 is reference (edition 1 or 2?). Will send request for comments.
Farance: Coordination with SC32 on 19773-08 postal data? Schoka suggested sending comments to TC154
Chair.
h) ITS
(A. Schoka)
Schoka: Gave an over of membership. Concern about intellectual property issues and the adoption of the standard.
i) ECCMA
(B. Bargmeyer)
Bargmeyer: ECCMA is involved in TC184 and STEP. WG2 will be establishing a liaison to
coordinate on data element description.
4) Status of Projects
a) Status
of ISO/IEC 11179 – revision
All parts are open for revision.
i) Part
1 – Framework (D. Gillman)
No changes yet, waiting for revisions.
ii) Part
2 – Classification (J. Carpenter)
No new draft yet for version 3 of part 2.
See "http://xmdr.org" for new
work in this area.
iii) Part
3 – Registry Metamodel and Basic Attributes (D. Mann)
L8 TG discussed technical issues and changes. Some progress being made.
iv) Part 4 – Definitions (B. Bargmeyer)
Nothing new to report on version 3.
v) Part
5 – Naming and Identification (B. Parker)
Burt did changes as requested and sent to SC32 Secretariat (version 2).
vi) Part 6 – Registration (D. Mann)
FDIS (version 2) ballot completed.
b) Status
of ISO/IEC TR 20943
i) Part
1 – Data Elements (D. Gillman)
No new status.
ii) Part
2 – XML (L. Fitzwater)
XML-related issues are folded 11179-3 version 3. 20944-2 was deferred until 11179-3 edition 3
is complete.
iii) Part
3 – Value Domains (D. Gillman)
Needs some minor correction. Need to file a defect report.
iv) Part 4 – Framework (L. Fitzwater)
No new status, no progress.
c) Status
of ISO/IEC 11404 – General Purpose Datatypes (F. Farance)
Need to form a committee to review the ballot resolution and provide US comments.
Motion: Farance moved, Bargmeyer seconded: Estblish a committee to provide US recommendations to SC22/WG11 for the 11404 FCD ballot resolution.
Vote: Unanimous consent
Gillman nominates Frank Farance to lead the committee. Frank accepted..
d) Status
of ISO/IEC 20944 – Interoperability and Bindings (F. Farance)
TG discussed the parts and their rationale (partition in to
Codings/APIs/Protocols; based upon theoretical aspects of partitioning into
data transfer, control transfer, and data/control
transfer). TG discussed potential issues
and resolution -- to be discussed further.
Current active parts 01, 02, 03, 20, 21, 40, 41, 43,
44, 47, 80, 81, 82.
e) ISO/IEC
24706 - Standards Metadata (D. Gillman)
Gillman said a draft would be available soon.
f) ISO/IEC
24707 - Common Logic (H. Delugach)
Expect draft by 2005-04.
g) ISO/IEC
15944 – Business Semantics (P. Levine)
Part 1: Defects identified in ISO/IEC 15944-1 to be submitted later as a second to be submitted later as a second technical corrigendum, with the technical corrigendum, with the objective of objective of following on with following on with republication of Part 1.
Part 2: Editor instructed to update according to WG1/N269R in preparation for according to WG1/N269R in preparation for 2004-12-15 FCD ballot. Recognizing Part 2 was Recognizing Part 2 was "at risk" under 5-year under 5-year rule, with 2004-10-20 for completion timeout, it was agreed to proceed with the update activity, reinstating Part 2 if cancelled.
Part 3: Editors instructed to update according to WG1/N270R in preparation for 2005-01-31 "sneak peak, sneak peak," inviting inviting comments and contributions by 2005-03-15.
Part 4: Editor instructed to update Editor instructed to update according to WG1/N271R in according to WG1/N271R in preparation for 2004-12-15 2nd CD ballot.
Part 5: Editors instructed to update according to WG1/N272R in according to
WG 1/N272R in preparation for 2004-12-15 2nd CD ballot.
h) ISO/IEC
19763 – Metamodel Framework (L. Fitzwater)
Progress at WG2 meeting. Needs active US
participation.
i) MOF
and XMI (D. Mann)
Approved DIS fast track ballots.
j) ISO/IEC
5218 – Sex Codes (D. Gillman)
Approved for public availability at JTC1 Plenary.
k) ISO/IEC
19773 – Metadata Modules (F. Farance)
Review in TG and at WG2. Projects are alive, 13 parts. Possible reorganization. L8 should review for applicability, especially for 11179-3 edition 3 normatively referencing parts of 19773.
l) ISO/IEC
14957 – Representation of Data Element Values (F. Farance)
No progress since last meeting. Expect draft around 2005-01 timeframe.
5) IR Activities
a) IR
Report (F. Farance)
No report other than what has been presented.
6) Other Business
a) WG2
Meeting, Nov 2004, Washington
Previously reported in meeting.
b) Open
Forum, April 2005,
Bargmeyer encouraged people to attend.
c) SC32,
WG2, and WG1 Meetings, April 2005,
Meetings scheduled, will prepare agendas over the next couple months.
d) ISO/IEC
CD 20944-41 (C API)
Send out letter ballot on "approve without comments".
e) ISO/IEC
CD 20944-44 (ECMA Script API)
Send out letter ballot on "approve without comments".
f) JTC1
Ad Hoc on JTC1 Directives - SC22 N3831
See next agenda item below.
g) JTC1
Call for Contributions on Filenames, Identifiers, Standards Designations and
their Harmonization - SC22 N3828
Motion: Farance moved, Newton seconded: Establish group to collect L8 comments on SC22/N3831 (JTC1/N7674) and SC22/N3828 (JTC1/N7673) provide comments to the US and to the INCITS EB.
7) Future Meeting Schedule
2005-01-10
/ 2005-01-11
2005-02-09
/ 2005-02-10
2005-03-23
/ 2005-03-25
2005-05-12
/ 2005-05-13
8) Acknowledgement
L8 thanks ITIC/INCITS for providing the facilities.
9) Adjournment
Motion: Newton moved, Schoka seconded: adjourn
Vote: Unanimous consent
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