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12 th UN/CEFACT Plenary. UN/CEFACT Forum Report Forum Management Group Chair: Dick Raman Vice-Chair: Sue Probert. Agenda. Status update Making the Forum effective Forum Lyon Forum Vancouver Reports from the Permanent Groups Wrap-Up. Status Update.
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12th UN/CEFACT Plenary UN/CEFACT Forum Report Forum Management Group Chair: Dick Raman Vice-Chair: Sue Probert
Agenda • Status update • Making the Forum effective • Forum Lyon • Forum Vancouver • Reports from the Permanent Groups • Wrap-Up 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Status Update • Core Components approach is fast gaining momentum • UN/CEFACT is increasingly regarded as the place where semantic harmonization can take place at the highest level • Industry groups now coming forward and declaring support for UN/CEFACT and for migration/alignment of their standards with the CC approach • UN/CEFACT needs the resources and buy-in of these external organizations 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Momentum • We have a unique opportunity to prove our value to the world at large • With stronger support from UNECE • Provided we demonstrate our value • With stronger support from the market • Provided we focus on where we are in agreement • Not on where we differ. 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Interoperability • UN/CEFACT is uniquely positioned to solve • Interoperability • By providing a global semantic Framework • Getting the buy-in of the market • The Forum should now • Unite and Focus on the key priorities • Speed up stable deliverables • Welcome other SDOs to work with us 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Collaboration • Collaboration with SDOs • We expect these parties to come into the Forum and work with us • We can recognize other organizations • Provided they adopt our semantics • The Forum will work hard to produce deliverables • By streamlining our process 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Cooperation with OASIS • 2006 Coordination and Project Alignment • UBL and UN/CEFACT collaboration plan • build a common set of eBusiness document standards • work with all relevant Forum Groups - started • common core components and business processes • future UN/CEFACT deliverables constitute the upgrade path for UBL • Member countries are committing resources to completing this work in UN/CEFACT • Business Process Specifications • collaborative effort on BPSS v.3 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Making the Forum more Effective • Put Trade Facilitation at the top • Provide Forum focus • Create visibility to Bureau/UNECE • Enhance the core Forum activities • Project Management • Harmonization • Promotion & Awareness • Registry/Repository/Web Site • Liaison with SDOs at the working level • Supported by dedicated resources 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Making the Forum more Effective • Optimize TBG Domains • Increase management support • Strengthen links with external organizations • Refine cross-domain project process • Pre-harmonization procedures • Widen ATG syntax implementations • EDI, XML, webServices, Paper • Define a process for external standards migrating to CC 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
7th UN/CEFACT FORUM Hosted by: EDIFrance Sponsors: September 26-30 Lyon 2005
Highlights • 7th UN/CEFACT Forum • 220 attendees • Organization • Presented many challenges • Welcome Reception – Mayor of Lyon • Lunch & Learns • UNeDocs (Sitpro & IATA), GS1, XBRL, UMM (UoV) 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Highlights • A major software developer presented how the new UN/CEFACT standards are at the core of their new generation of software • Legal Group reconvened • Legal Aspects of the PG’s work • Agriculture group started • eGovernment group founded • First Core Components Library produced 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
8th UN/CEFACT FORUM March 12-17 2006 Vancouver, Canada Hosts Francois Vuilleumeir, ISO/TC 154 Chair Duane Nickull, Individual
8th UN/CEFACT Forum • The organizers did a tremendous job! • Thanks to the Sponsors! • Thanks to the Volunteers! • Welcome to over 230 delegates! • Introduction by Canadian government • WCO collaboration 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Highlights • Activities during the week • Extended our Core Components Library • A lot of interest in TBG18 (Agriculture) • Actual start of TBG19 (eGovernment) • The Legal Group met the PGs • Much more… • Lunch & Learns • X12, CIDX, UBL, OAG, … 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Highlights • Registry implementation verification team established • XML Schemas to be delivered in Q3 for: • Cross-Industry Invoice, • e-Tendering • UN/CEFACT Outputs on a semi-annual cycle • MRI needs more permanent status 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Applied Technologies Group Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary Chair: Anders Grangård Vice-Chair: Mark Crawford
Work Programme • Standard Business Document Header • Representation of CCTS in XML • Harmonisation of representation terms • TAC for XML Deliverables • UML to UN/EDIFACT Transformation Rules • UML to XML Design Rules • Representation of BPSS in XML • XML Naming and Design Rules • CPP-CPA Implementers Guide 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Item for Plenary Approval • UN/CEFACT XML NDR, Naming and Design Rules, have successfully gone through the ODP process and reached full consensus from the UN/CEFACT forum • ATG hence request the UN/CEFACT Plenary to approve this specification as a UN/CEFACT Technical Specification. 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Items for Plenary Noting • Hundred forty-five (145) Data Maintenance requests were processed for the D.05B UN/EDIFACT Directory • Hundred twelve (112) Data Maintenance requests were processed for the D.06A UN/EDIFACT Directory 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Other Items • Inter-forum meetings held • June 2005 - Kongsberg, Norway • January 2006 – Wollongong, Australia • Future Meetings • Summer 2006 – Germany • October 2006 – New Delhi, India 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Information Content Management Group Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary Chair: Mike Conroy Vice-Chair: David Dobbing
Principal Highlights • Approved the RSM (Requirements Specifications Mapping) • Finalised the UN/CEFACT Registry Specification for ODP release • Initialised UN/CEFACT Registry Proof-of-Concept: • Canada, Government of Ontario • Chinese Taipei, National Taiwan Normal University • France, France Télécom • Korea, Korea Institute for Electronic Commerce 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Principal Highlights • Revised and approved code list updates to UNECE Recommendations: • Rec. 20 - Units of Measure used in International Trade • Rec. 21 - Types of Cargo, Packages and Packaging Materials • Rec. 23 - Freight Cost Code • Advanced Code List Migration Project for the regular publication of a single XML based version of all UN/CEFACT maintained code lists • Audited the first release of the Core Components Library 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Work in progress • Finalise UN/CEFACT Registry development • Finalise Code List Migration Project • Ongoing audit of UN/CEFACT deliverables • Ongoing maintenance of UNECE Recommendations related to codes 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Items for Plenary Noting • UNECE Recommendation 16 (Codes for Trade and Transport Locations - UN/LOCODE ) - UN/LOCODE 2005-2 • UNECE Recommendation 20 (Units of Measure used in International Trade) - Rev. 4 • UNECE Recommendation 21 (Codes for Types of Cargo, Packages and Packaging Materials) - Rev. 5 • UNECE Recommendation 23 (Freight Cost Code) - Rev. 2 • UN/EDIFACT DIRECTORY Releases • D05A • D05B 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Legal Group Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary Chair: Usva Vice-Chair: Bart Schermer
International Trade and Business Processes Group Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary Chair: Jean-Luc Champion Vice-Chair: Yong-Jae Kim
Some thoughts… Mind is like a parachute… It works better when it’s open! 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
TBG • Business Requirements Specification • Cross industry ordering, Cross industry e-catalogue, Steel industry ordering • IFTM International Forwarding Transport • Project Schedule and Cost Performance Management, Contract Financial Execution Management • Accounting Entry • Waste Tracking • DAPLOS, Animal Passport • Requirements Specification Mapping • Cross industry invoice, Cross industry remittance advice • e-Tendering 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
TBG • Plan for the harmonisation with and integration of UBL Trade and Transport messages • Starting with Invoice and Remittance advice • Joint Transport and Environment effort on pre-harmonization for Dangerous Goods • Review of UNECE Recommendations 6, 11 & 12 • E-Gov future projects: legal archiving, exchanges between Tax & Social Security, Phytosanitary certificates, GSRM. 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
TBG • Mapping of two documents from Senegal and the E-Cert document to UNeDocs • Review of WCO DM 2.0 by Transport, Customs, e-Gov • Liaison between Finance & UNIFI • Liaison between Accounting & XBLR • Production of the first official CCL • First complete submissions containing BIE´s and messages (Cross Industry Invoice and e-Tendering) 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Techniques & Methodologies Group Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary Chair: Gunther StuhecVice-Chair: Christian Huemer,Anders Tell
General • TMG made great strides • Meetings: • Walldorf, Germany • Lyon, France • Sydney, Australia • The next meeting will be in 19 – 23 June 2006 at SWIFT, Brussels, Belgium 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Inter-Organization Collaboration • Business Process Specification Schema (BPSS) • The next version of OASIS’s BPSS standard, v2.0.3, will be submitted to ISO TC 154 for approval as ISO/DTS 15000-6. • UN/CEFACT and OASIS will announce that BPSS 3.0 will be a joint effort. • The TMG recommends that this action be supported by CEFACT Plenary. • Constructive communications with OMG and W3C • Learned about other’s initiatives • Exploring collaboration opportunities • Defined gap analysis plans 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Business Process Working Group • UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology (UMM) • The 2nd working draft of UMM Base and UMM Foundation Module ready for ODP Step 5 • The review period started on 2006-03-17 and ended on 2006-04-30. Began User Guide update process • Business Collaboration Specification Schema (BCSS) • Launched and made considerable progress in a joint project with ICG and ATG to define a UML profile for UMM and evaluate interoperability among various UML tools. • BCSS v1.0 draft specification released to ODP Step 4 • Resources-Events-Agents (REA) Project is approved and already started 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Core Component Working Group • Core Component Technical Specification (CCTS) • CCTS V2.2 draft specification released for ODP 4 • The review period started on 2006-04-03 and ended on 2006-05-03 • Core Component Message Assembly (CCMA) • The team has been formed, the project launch, and a series of steady conference calls has produced sixteen pages of comments. • Context Methodology Project (CMP) is approved and already started 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Architecture diagram REA Context BPSS 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Thoughts • All TMG methodologies are the basis for a successful realization of UN/CEFACT‘s Vision “Simple, Transparent and Effective Processes for Global Commerce“ • Feedback is that they are excellent specifications • But there is still a lot of work to do 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Thoughts • More active participating is the key for solving this issues in that time as you want • We believe that an endorsed IPR Policy will start the ball rolling, especially for • more awareness, • more resources, • more active participation, and • support by major companies 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
Wrap-Up Dick Raman
Next Forums • New Delhi (India) – 2-6 October 2006 • Offered by the Indian Government • Open – March 2007 • Request for proposals • Preferably in Africa/Arabia/Latin-America • We need guarantee • Local sponsors • Europe – September 2007 • USA – March 2008 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
See you in New Delhi • It is important that the experts come • We have elections for all positions in the FMG • Legal Group Chair • Standards Liaison Rapporteur • The team would like to continue • Everyone is prepared to give it two more years to finish the job • Proposal to the Plenary to continue with 2 additional members from TBG in the FMG 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
UN/CEFACT Forum Objectives • Increasing the effectiveness of the UN/CEFACT Forum • Increasing the quality and speeding up the production of UN/CEFACT deliverables • Strengthening relations with other standards- and vertical organizations • Will contribute more to saving money globally! • We need resources to do this… 12th UN/CEFACT Plenary - Forum Report
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