Joint PPCConvenors meeting

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Joint PPC/Convenors meeting

• Purpose
• Common baseline
• Key objectives for the week
• Issues to be addressed

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Agenda

• Briefing by Secretariat
• Meeting details
• Priorities for the week
• As set in HangZhou
• ISO Issues
• Project issues
• Liaison challenges
• TC184 plenary
• ISO/IEC JWG1
• MoU/MG issues
• Administrative and QC issues
• Action item status
• Issues from the PPC and Convenors

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Briefing by Secretariat

• Ballot status - in advance
• Website development
• Advanced resolutions

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Meeting details

• Plenaries in hotel
• Meetings in the castle
• Lunches in hotel break is 1200-1330
• Secretariat office Room 144
• Visit to ruins of Ercolano on Tuesday afternoon
• Meetings in the evening 1700-2000, with dinner at
  2030

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Challenges from Hangzhou

• Project targets as declared to the Secretariat
• Less than 5 of projects delayed
• R - AP221, AP227ed 2, AP236, AP240, PAS 20542
  published
• Outstanding modules published
• Part 28 ed 2 for DIS ballot
• R - Supplementary Directives update out for
  ballot
• A - ISO TMB Standards as Databases proposal
• A - SC4 MA proposal/database business case
  drafted
• R - PAFOC proposal for AP203
• G - JWG1 draft documents available
• A - Strategy for harmonisation with core
  components
• A - Proposal for improved liaison with TC154
• More detail later

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WG plans from Hangzhou

• WG2
• Draft IS version of 13584-511 sent to Geneva for
  publication by 1 March
• Completion of CD ballot of modified dictionary
  model 13584-42, for review at meeting
• Draft of NWI/CD XML schema proposal (Part 32)
  including compatibility with ebXML core
  components, for review at meeting

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WG plans from Hangzhou

• WG3
• DIS ballot for AP 203 ed 2 needs NWI resolution
• Development of initial module set for AP 209 ed 2
• Completion of TS documents for AP 210 ed 2
  modules
• NWI/CD of draft of AP214 ed 3
• Launch of DIS ballot for AP 219
• Completion of DIS ballot for AP 221 for
  resolution at next meeting
• Publication of AP 227 ed 2
• NWI for AP229

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WG plans from Hangzhou

• WG3
• Second working draft of AP233
• Delivery of final AP238 by end March
• Publication of AP240
• Detailed work plan for Generic AEC model AP
• Development of draft TS version of 15926-3 for
  geometry by end February
• Ballot resolution for 15926-4 by end 2005
• Draft NWI/TS for 15926-6
• Ballot resolution for 15926-7 for templates

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WG plans from Hangzhou

• JWG8
• Resolution of DIS ballot comments for 15531-43 at
  next meeting
• Completion of DIS ballot for ISO 18629-13, -43,
  -44
• Resolution of DIS ballot comments for ISO
  18629-13, -14, -41, -42, -43, -44 at next meeting

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WG plans from Hangzhou

• WG11
• EXPRESS metamodel in UML to be published through
  OMG by end of year
• Draft of DIS for 10303-28e2 by end November
• New draft for binary data exchange

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WG plans from Hangzhou

• WG12
• Implementation of update to modular development
  environment
• Submission of NWI/CD for 10303 Part 58 Risk
• Review of new draft of 10303 Part 59
• Publication of 10303 Part 107
• CD TS ballot for 22745-11 by end November
• CD TS ballot of remainder of 22745 by end January
• New simplified cataloguing module
• Resolution of outstanding SEDS

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Key ISO developments

• Latest ISO Directives
• Part 1 PPC/secretariat to look at process
  impact
• Part 2 incorporated in Supplementary Directives
  draft
• URN specification submitted to reflect all
  feasible standards structures, including
  Amendments, TCs, new editions, joint ISO/IEC
  standards, etc, etc
• Internal Committee balloting application
• New submission interface with progress tracking
• Due 20 April

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Cancellations by ISO

• Cancelled in December CFD 10303-52,-53,-110
• Due for cancellation March 2006 20542
• Missed FDIS date 13584-511
• Three month period of grace for DIS
• Work programme extracts now available online -
  updated daily
• Critical
• Warning
• Cancelled in last year
• Extracted and loaded on SC4ONLINE

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ISO publication process

• Process improvements
• New ISO editor (Brian Stanton) to help SC4 to
  maintain SDs to be fully compliant with ISO
  Directives and practice
• ISO editor to review documents before submission
  (2 wks)
• Aim is to minimise editorial intervention
• Need to sort requirement for individual DIS of
  module
• some SD updates required to match current
  practice
• PPC to sort any process changes in Handbook
• HTML
• Agreed delivery packaging for modules - process
  refinement in SC4 to be enforced by Secretariat
• SD updates to reflect final decisions
• Possible use of CSS for harvested documents

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ISO PDF rules

• ITSIG has agreed that
• Acrobat version 4.05 and above may be used
• Distillation of files shall be to PDF
  compatibility level 1.3
• to allow for the addition of digital rights
  management features, PDF files may be edited and
  saved as PDF version 1.5
• The ISO/CS will thus accept PDF files up to and
  including PDF version 1.5 provided that they have
  been distilled to PDF compatibility level 1.3

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ISO marketing strategy

• Range of products
• Modules to be published individually, followed by
  CD-ROM package of AP and modules
• Niche market packages of APs
• STEP CD-ROM
• ISO CS would like to promote SC4 standards more
  strongly with industry need more marketing
  material eg ISO Focus articles
• Suggestion that modules be treated as a standards
  database, with a single repository under
  configuration control by a maintenance agency

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Standards as databases (1)

• Drivers
• Many database initiatives are emerging in TCs
• Standard procedure for databases has been
  approved in IEC
• Ad hoc group met 10-11 November in Geneva
• harmonisation of approaches to databases
• commercial and technical implications

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Standards as databases (2)

• Four main classes
• Terms and definitions
• Graphical symbols
• Product data definitions / Product properties
• Reference data
• Individual items (lists) or structured data
• Development - items stored in database, or
  database as master
• Accessibility public or restricted to
  authorized users
• FInal product as document (paper/electronic),
  database or both
• Business model free (preferred by TCs), or
  various forms of payment (preferred by ISO)

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Standards as databases (3)

• Use IEC procedure with accelerated timescales
• Use ISO/IEC stage codes for status of entries
• Task force to
• Review against ISO procedures
• Identify changes to stage codes
• Review against national requirements
• Need to support
• Federated structure
• Open access
• Guaranteed levels of service
• ISO URN
• Pilot based on terminology
• Chris Kreiler and MA team to provide SC4 position

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Project Management

• Project updates in advance
• 195 tasks in ISO work programme
• Systematic reviews completed NWI option
• Tasks showing late/missing information
• AP210, AP236, AP221
• PLIB parts 501 and 511
• MANDATE Part 43
• 15926-3 and 4
• 13584-102, 20542, 26183 in ISO publication
• Project updates will be sought during the meeting
• Ron Kolakowski has the database

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Project Issues

• Discussion of Product Data Quality Strategy
• Allocation of ISO 8000 to an existing or new
  Working Group
• Confirmation of overall SC4 product terminology
  as per exploder
• Ongoing discussions on relationship between WG2
  PLIB activities and ISO 22745, to get a coherent
  approach for external consumption
• Objections from IAI to the AP 241 proposal
• Change Management for modules implementation
• Maintenance agency for reference data libraries
  and 22745
• Business and governance models MA/RA
• Supplementary directives update

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New work items

• NWI proposals to be reviewed
• 10303-45 ed 2
• 13584-32
• 15531-44
• 22745-30, -40, -50
• Gellish in June
• Review set for Tuesday at 1700

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Liaison challenges

• Collaboration with TC10 on ISO 16792 - technical
  documentation
• ISO/TC 10/WG 17 Vocabulary of terms and
  definitions
• ISO TC37 terminology Coordination on their NWI
  on Product Data Classification (from last
  August...)
• ISO TC67 interest in 15926 Parts 4-7
• Liaisons to TC8 and TC184/SC5 required
• Requirements for liaison with ISO TC215 on
  medical informatics (Germany)
• Liaison to new ISO TC 229 on nanotechnologies
• IEC TC3 work on maintenance of data dictionaries
• Electrical liaisons - IEC TC93 liaison
  statement
• Any input to IEC SB3 meeting 1-2 June
• Review of list of liaisons - discrepancies with
  ISO

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ISO TC60 on gears

• Liaison established in HangZhou
• German development VDA 23900
• Proposed New Work Item on Specification for gear
  data exchange failed to get five supporting
  countries in TC60
• Now proposed that work be done in SC4 in
  cooperation with Manufacturing team
• Experts here Wednesday and Thursday

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TC154

• Chair met with TC184 and TC154 chairs in November
• Now have clear view of work programme
• AFNOR working on requested proposal for
  accommodating TC154 work programme in TC184
• Draft due January 2006
• Final proposal June 2006
• No longer urgent, since TC154 chair and
  secretariat now available until 2008
• Both WG2 and ISO 22745 projects engaging with
  UN/CEFACT

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PDF/E for Engineering

• NWI approved by TC171/SC2
• Draft document CD 24517
• Also linked to ISO version of Workflow Management
  Coalition document on business document workflows
• Offer for SC4 to become part of JWG
• Meeting in Hamburg 20-23 June
• Need SC4 resolution approving joint work and
  nominating representative

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JTC1/SC31 on RFID

• Met with TC20/WG13 and JTC1/SC31 Chairs in
  November
• SC31 keen for TC184 to take responsibility for
  Industrial Data application standards for RFID
• Proposed joint ad hoc group to consider how to
  take ISO 21849 forward to multiple industries
• GS1 US facilities in Lawrenceville (Princeton)
  NJ, USA
• Tuesday 11 April 2006, 1300 1700
• Wednesday 12 April 2006, 0800 1500

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TC184 plenary

• Met 24-25 October 2005, Beijing, with Advisory
  Group on 22 October
• Warning developed for standards where translation
  could affect interoperability for SDs
• TC184 seeking waiver on 5 countries rule for work
  generated in agreed projects where less than 5
  countries have expertise
• Strong interest in SC4 maintenance agency work
• SC4 harvesting process promoted for general use
• SC5 advised to review SC4 quality checklists for
  their use
• Advisory Group members to include TC184 HoDs, and
  WG Convenors as necessary
• Discussion on
• Feedback from ISO Chairs conference
• Closer coordination with IEC TC65
• Coordination of UML use across Committees
• Improved OMG liaison
• Next meeting Madrid 9-10 October 2006

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Diagnostics and maintenance integration (MAMI-TF)

• Resolution 396 - TC 184 requests its
  Subcommittees to confirm the perspective of the
  applicability of their standards to the lifecycle
  phases identified by the Task Force in their
  preliminary report. The Subcommittees are
  invited to provide separate detail for relevant
  individual standards as appropriate, including
  details of the classes of Asset covered by
  those standards, no later than 2006-01-09.
• Task Force to provide by 2006-03-01 a firm
  timescale for delivering the results
• Vehicle for link to TC108/SC5

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ISO/IEC JWG1

• Resolution from HangZhou
• SC 4 recommends that National Bodies ensure that
  any ballot on these documents is reviewed by
  their representatives to SC 4 and other affected
  Technical Committees.
• Drafts circulated for comment
• Responses to request for SC4 position from France
  and Japan
• Report out on Wednesday liaison
• Resulting document will be forwarded to ISO/CS to
  coordinate review by IEC SMB before ISO ballot.

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IEC TC65 proposal on JWG1 trial

• IEC TC65 would like to undertake a trial of the
  JWG1 process to develop a common definition of
  Product Properties and Classification across
  Industrial Data
• Involves SC4/WG2 and IEC SC65A/B/C, SC17B and
  SC22G
• Based on ISO 13584/IEC 61360
• Each group responsible for technology in their
  own area

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MoU/MG matters

• Integrated standards view of eBusiness updated
• Next meeting in Vancouver 20-21 March
• Any issues?

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Current MoU/MG issues (1)

• Framework for eBusiness standards
• Includes CEFACT and OASIS models
• Actively supported by NIST eBSC activity
• Aligned with open-edi model
• Open registry for eBusiness standards work
• Metadata and mechanism to be defined
• Need federated approach, with moderation for
  consistency
• ANSI offering to host
• All members to highlight relevant NWI for
  visibility

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Semantics - Terminology
Scenarios
Service assembly
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Consraints
Contractual and regulatory
Security
Registry/Repostory for Discovery, Presence,
Availability
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Conformance and interoperability testing
Process models
Information content/components Classification
schemes Component libraries Enterprise data and
metadata Reference data Identifiers
Data Assembly
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Process definition mechanisms
Information definition mechanisms
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Service definition mechanisms
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Representation options
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Transport options
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Networks
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Guidelines
Physical representation
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Current MoU/MG issues (2)

• Information architecture
• Product classification schemes
• e-Catalogues/Dictionaries - JWG1 defining
  consistent structure and content based on PLIB
  (ISO 13584/IEC61360)
• Enterprise information models
• Master data/code lists - repositories of valid
  values to support core components - multilingual
  support needed
• Terminology
• Federated structure of definition databases
• Appropriate business model for free downloads
  from the web
• Semantic interoperability principles document
  agreed (N221)

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Current MoU/MG issues (3)

• ebXML Core Components methods and procedures
• First four ebXML specifications from OASIS
  adopted as ISO 15000
• CCTS 2.01 from CEFACT adopted as ISO 15000-5
• Updates to be forwarded for ISO standardisation
• Agreement to focus core component development
  through CEFACT TBG17 - OASIS, OAGIS 9.0, AIAG,
  CEFACT,.
• Core component open development process to be
  clearly articulated by March 2006, based on
  initial experience with UBL and TDED components
• Naming and Design Rules being harmonised between
  UBL and the other groups
• Harmonisation of information modelling methods

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Current MoU/MG issues (4)

• Universal Business Language (UBL)
• Version 1.0 accepted as OASIS standard - may go
  to ISO
• Further development under CEFACT being negotiated
• Localisation in the Far East - opportunity for
  TC37
• Seen as short term document oriented solution
• Convergence with UNeDOCS and TDED to be explored
• Open tools for generating UN Layout Key documents
  and HTML forms
• Global name and address standards
• Multiple approaches to be considered in detail at
  the next meeting

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Current MoU/MG issues (5)

• Biometrics
• build on existing work
• clear framework required
• core component requirements to be identified
• Secure container transportation
• All relevant standards available - except
  biometrics and seals
• Need to implement them to achieve secure supply
  chain
• Cultural diversity
• Recommendations to be taken into account on new
  standards, and incorporated in JWG1 guidance
  draft checklist to be reviewed (N222)
• Lithuanian character sets

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Active areas of coordination (6)

• Web services
• No clear definition
• Multiple proprietary viewpoints
• Results of ongoing JTC1 working group to be
  reviewed at next meeting
• Consistent URN for standards
• ISO proposal to be reviewed
• Urgent requirement for resolution
• ISO/IEC Strategic Advisory Group on Security
• eBusiness related issues identified
• Data protection/privacy requirements to be
  defined by government bodies, for action by
  standards groups
• EU/US group on ICT regulation

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Administrative action items

• Standards retention policy for SC4
• Improving the work between meetings
• Potential application of Bugzilla to support SEDS
  process
• Web page for vendor products - CEO to consider
• Strategy for press releases PPC/CEO to consider
  proposed handbook change
• Handbook updates PPC
• Possible use of HTML CSS for harvested documents

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Convenor Vacancies

• QC Coordinator and deputy
• Deputy for WG11
• Participants for WG11
• Participants for WG3/T19 - AP203 ed2, AP214 ed 3

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Future meetings

• 25-30 June 2006 Toulouse, France
• 22-27 October 2006 Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
• (50th plenary)
• Spring 2007 - Portugal
• Autumn 2007 - US hosted by SOLE?
• Autumn 2008 - Korea

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Other issues

• Policy issues from SC4 Resolutions - PPC
• Change Management team constitution - PPC
• Emphasis that not an approval gate
• Open source standards?
• Updates to SOAP - CEO
• Review of effectiveness of liaisons - PPC
• CEO to provide libraries of documents to
  plagiarise for articles
• Dated references to non-SC4 standards
• Bugzilla requirements statement
• Joint PPC/Convenors meeting to be later on Sunday
• HTML build of modules

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Liaisons - Brief Reports

• TC29/WG34 Norman Swindells
• PDES, Inc Burt Gischner

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LIAISONSWednesday Plenary

• Detailed presentation and discussions on
  relationships
• of liaison activities with SC4 work
• Jean-Marc Chatelard TC184 Chair
• Wolfgang Wilkes JWG1
• Mats Nilsson OASIS
• Peter Benson ECCMA
• Leo van Ruijven USPI-NL Rijkswaterstaat
  Gellish
• Nils Sandsmark ISO TC67

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Open Technical Forum

• Topic Industrial Data Quality Requirements
  Real Issues, Real Solutions
• Time Monday 18.00-20.00 in the castle
• Presentations
• Norman Swindells The Quality of Information and
  Information Systems
• Guy Pierra Built-in Quality and
  Process-Oriented Quality in Component Catalogue
  Data
• Hiroshi Murayama Using ISO 13584-IEC61360 in
  Business Over Years
• Nikolaus Ondrachek The Real Solution of
  www.DINsml.net
• Gerry Radack Peter Benson Requirements
  Driving ISO 8000
• Oscar Rocha SASIG Product Data Quality
  Guidelines

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And finally

• Message from Tim King
• Dear All,
• I am leaving for the World Golf Croquet
  Championships tomorrow and have set up a website
  to cover information about my participation
• lthttp//homepage.ntlworld.com/tmk/wgcc2006/gt
• If all goes well then perhaps I will be able to
  upload further news and pictures while I am in
  New Zealand