ebXML Quality Review Group
minutes of Conference Call Oct 3rd, 2000
Written by: Tim McGrath, Oct 4th, 2000
Present:
Tim McGrath (Acting Chair), Murray Maloney, Jon Bosak, Nagwa Abdelghfour, Joe Baran, Dick Raman
Apologies: Bob Glushko
Agenda:
1. Welcome (please be on time...)
2. Technical Specifications:
* documents submitted
* documents in pipeline
* protocol for reviews
3. Public documents or presentations with technical content
* the Tokyo QTO session
4. Technical content on the ebXML website
5. Any Other Business
* specification document templates (Joe/Jon)
* project team co-ordination - who is doing it now? (Tim)
* the Team Leader’s participation in teleconferences (Murray?)
* review meeting times (Nagwa)
6. Action plan
7. Next Meeting
Discussion:
- Tim agreed to Chair the meeting. A brief discussion about the value of new participants in the calls. Dick noted that the list now had many lurkers (subscriber ist attached to this document) and we should be aware of public comments. It was agreed to keep the list server and meeting open but qualify any new participants.
- No Technical Specifications have been received for Quality Review over the past week.
Documents reported in the pipeline were…
Business Process Metamodel (BP) – scheduled for w/c 2nd Oct
ebXML Glossary (TA) - scheduled for w/c 2nd Oct
Reliable Messaging Services (TRP) - scheduled for w/c 9nd Oct
RegRep Specification - scheduled for Tokyo plenary (6th Nov)
This is now to be a single document (currently before the PoC Team).
Nagwa reported that the TA Team have committed to rewrite the TA Specification. A draft would be circulated to the Team within 2 weeks and the document should be submitted for QR before the Tokyo plenary. No immediate action is required from the QR Team. It was noted that the provision of the detailed notes to the TA Team may have raised more issues than it resolved and we may reconsider this action in future.
Action:
Tim and Dick: attend the Steering committee meeting on 4th Oct at 10:00 Pacific Time and hope to get updates on the document schedules.
- Murray reported that he will be attending the MAE Teleconference in a few hours time to explain the QR processes for marketing deliverables. He agreed to add the development of the QTO to their agenda. Murray reported that the MAE Team may have a whitepaper and a slideshow for review very shortly. These will require input from the QR team.
Action:
Murray: Attend and report on the MAE meeting.
- This item now belongs with other deliverables of the MAE team.
Action:
Tim: Revise agenda to incorporate points 3 and 4.
- a. ebXML Specification templates. Jon is optimistic that we may be able to offer an XML-based alternative to the current Word templates. He will discuss publicity options with the Executive. Joe reported he had attempted to test the W3C Recommendations templates, but lacked suitable stylesheets. Tim noted that the main issue would be convicing current Editors to change their documents and tool sets. Jon and Joe suggested that once the benefits of a XML based document were demonstrated it would encourgae adoption. It was agreed to continue resaerch and aim to provide a position paper to the Executive by the Tokyo Plenary.
Action:
Jon: Pursue licensing issues and prepare the basis of a submission to the Executive.
b. David Webber had raised the question of who had taken over the co-ordination role of project team’s work. The Team agreed this was the Project Management team. Dick stated their role was to plan deliverables, idnetify the criticial path and milestones across all Teams. This co-ordination was not evident. Nagwa reported that the PM team appeared under-resourced and inactive. This was impacting on all tema’s ability to align their deliverables. It was agreed to raise this concern to the Executive and at the next Steering Committee Meeting.
Action:
Tim and Dick: Raise activities of PM Team to Executive and Steering Committee.
c. Murray and Jon expressed their concerns on the role of the Team Leader being ill-defined within Project teams. This was a quality issue within Team procedures. Both agreed to prepare a more coherent proposal for the next meeting. TheTeam agreed that our current procedures worked satisfactorily but we needed to work on scheduling meetings to enable better attendance by the Lead and Co-Lead.
Action:
Jon and Murray: propose agenda item for next meeting
Tim, Dick, Bob: propose 3 time slots for future teleconferences at the next meeting.
- Action Items as per each point
- Bob Glushko reported he could not attand meetings in the current timeslot. Therefore the next meeting will be on Thursday 12th October at 08:00 am Pacific Time. This may require a change of call numbers
Call-In Number TBA
Intern'l Call-In TBA
Participant Code TBA
Action:
Nagwa: confirm time of meeting and call numbers.
Encl: Subscriber list from QR Team list server.
End of document
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