X3L8 Special Interest Group Meeting

held at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, on September 19, 1996

Meeting Minutes

Larry Fitzwater, EPA

Doug Mann, Battelle

Phong Ngo, SAIC

Paul Hawes, Bellcore

Judith Newton, NIST

Burton Parker, MITRE

Bill Kenworthey, Self

Dan Gillman, Census

Henry Heffernan, EDPNS

The meeting bean at 9:00AM

1. Report on Modeling Standard Workshop held in Bellevue WA:

Paul Hawes and Doug Mann gave a report on the above meeting. The purpose to see if there are common conceptual schema from standard committees to share. There were approximately 40 people attending. There was a proposal from B. Bargmeyer to use DpANS 285 (X3L8's Metamodel for ....) as framework to register other metamodels. The proposal was tentatively adopted as a resolution (word smithing is yet to be done).

It was reported that ISO DIS 13584 and IEC 1360 use ISO/IEC 11179 as foundation.

2. Report on X3.30, Date Standard. Phong Ngo reports that Tom Frost, VC of X3 OMC, verbally told Phong that the X3L8 proposal to revise the standard was approved during the September OMC meeting. Yet to be completed: Press release on the proposal (the verbiage was provided by Burt Parker in July 1996), another X3L8 plenary meeting to have all interested parties involved. Phong Ngo will coordinate with ITIC tosettle the press release issue, and bring the issue of a special Plenary in the September 20, 1996 Plenary meeting.

3. Report on two NPs, Data Element Concepts (DEC) and Data Value Domain (DVD).

Phong reported the ISO votes were disappointing: In favor were four votes for DEC and three votes for DVD. The current ISO directives require five approval votes. Paul Hawes suggested that maybe the additional required votes may be obtained during the upcoming SC14 and WG4 meeting in Brazil.

4. Discussion on DpANS X3.285 Metamodel. Paul restated the need to resolve the outstanding issues regarding the Metamodel to get the current work into the next standards stage beyond the public review. Larry Fitzwater will record the resolutions and distribute them in a separate document.

Items 9 -75 were addressed and disposed of by the SIG. Detail of the resolutions can be found in Larry Fitzwater's report.

The meeting was adjourned at 5:00 PM.