12th UN/CEFACT Plenary

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12th UN/CEFACT Plenary

• UN/CEFACT Forum Report
• Forum Management Group
• Chair Dick Raman
• Vice-Chair Sue Probert

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Agenda

• Status update
• Making the Forum effective
• Forum Lyon
• Forum Vancouver
• Reports from the Permanent Groups
• Wrap-Up

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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7th UN/CEFACT FORUM
Hosted by EDIFrance Sponsors
September 26-30 Lyon 2005
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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)

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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 PGs work
• Agriculture group started
• eGovernment group founded
• First Core Components Library produced

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8th UN/CEFACT FORUM March 12-17 2006 Vancouver,
Canada
Hosts
Francois Vuilleumeir,
ISO/TC 154 Chair Duane Nickull, Individual
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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

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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,

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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

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Applied Technologies Group

• Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary
• Chair Anders Grangård
• Vice-Chair Mark Crawford

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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

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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.

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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

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Other Items

• Inter-forum meetings held
• June 2005 - Kongsberg, Norway
• January 2006 Wollongong, Australia
• Future Meetings
• Summer 2006 Germany
• October 2006 New Delhi, India

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Information Content Management Group

• Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary
• Chair Mike Conroy
• Vice-Chair David Dobbing

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Legal Group

• Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary
• Chair Usva
• Vice-Chair Bart Schermer

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International Trade and Business Processes Group

• Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary
• Chair Jean-Luc Champion
• Vice-Chair Yong-Jae Kim

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Some thoughts
Mind is like a parachute
It works better when its open!
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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

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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.

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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 BIEs and
  messages (Cross Industry Invoice and e-Tendering)

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Techniques Methodologies Group

• Report to the UN/CEFACT Plenary
• Chair Gunther StuhecVice-Chair Christian
  Huemer,Anders Tell

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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

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Inter-Organization Collaboration

• Business Process Specification Schema (BPSS)
• The next version of OASISs 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 others initiatives
• Exploring collaboration opportunities
• Defined gap analysis plans

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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

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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

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Architecture diagram
Context
REA
BPSS
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Thoughts

• All TMG methodologies are the basis for a
  successful realization of UN/CEFACTs 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

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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

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Wrap-Up

• Dick Raman

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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

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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

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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

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