Report from Chairman

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Report from Chairman

• Structure of the meeting
• Progress against targets
• Work Programme
• ISO issues
• Liaison opportunities
• ISO/IEC JWG1
• MoU/MG
• TC184
• Vacancies
• Challenges for the week

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Structure of the week

• Status documents available in advance
• Lists of publications and ballots
• National reports by request only
• Liaison arrangements
• Brief reports on Monday
• NO LIAISON PLENARY ON WEDNESDAY
• see Chuck Stark to book extra meetings
• Longer presentations on Friday
• SC4 plenary on Friday
• Closing technical plenary 0800-1000
• SC4 meeting 1030

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Personnel news

• Heidi Preston delivered a son, Clark on 19
  September - another small mankind for STEP
• Ricardo Gonçalves has resigned as Chair of the
  CEO - Darren Meister nominated as successor
• Austria now a P-member

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Challenges from Bath

• Project targets as declared to the Secretariat
• Publications of harvested products
• Less than 10of projects delayed
• Publication of HTML PDM and PLCS modules
• Realistic meeting planning
• ISO/IEC Guide on Product Classification
• Part 28 ed 2 ballot resolution
• MIME types registered - URN/URI established
• Strategy for harmonisation of core components
• Supplementary Directives update
• Major effort on marketing

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Work Programme Highlights

• 10303-11e2, 14, 55, 108, 18629-1 sent for
  publication
• DIS on Parts 41ed3, 239, 15531-42 completed
• CD successful for Parts 28ed2, 18629-42
• CD launched for Parts 18629-13,14,43,44
• PAS ballot for 20542 (SEDRES) and 22720 (ASAM ODS
  5.0) completed

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Project Management

• ISO work programme extracts now available online
  -
• Critical - risk of automatic cancellation in 6
  months
• Warning - risk of cancellation in 1 year
• Cancelled in last year - could be restarted
• Will be extracted and loaded on SC4ONLINE
• Database status aligned with ISO
• 190 tasks showing late/missing information
• 69 modules awaiting publication
• 89 modules late (46 AP221, 35 AP236)
• 10303-25, 41ed3, 51, 54, 56,107,109, 111, 203TS1,
  219, 221, 224ed3, 227ed 2, 233, 236, 238 slipping
• more...

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Project Management

• CFD Parts 52, 53, 110, 237 unresourced
• 10303-58 unplanned
• Publication issues with 13584-102
• New DIS date needed for 13584-501
• 13584-511 slipping
• 15531-32 slipping
• 16739 needs final editing
• 15926-1 awaiting final copy
• 18629-11,12,21,41,42, slipping
• Project updates will be sought during the meeting

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Applying the 2-year rule

• Modular APs are launched by single NWI, then
  subdivided - all projects have same timescale
• Risk of cancellation of AP, while modules make
  progress
• Need to respect ISO timescales for entire project
• ISO believes there is a mechanism to put the AP
  on hold, to avoid such cancellation
• Need an example to avoid theoretical discussion
• AP233?

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Cancellation since last meeting

• 10303-57 cancelled by design
• Imminent risk of cancellation - end of October
• 10303-238
• Imminent risk of cancellation - end of November
• 10303-51, 221, 236
• 16739
• 18629-15, 21, 45, 46
• Due for cancellation before next meeting
• 10303-58, 227e2, 233, 1101, 1102
• 15531-43

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Key ISO developments

• New organisation in place from September 20
• Technical Policy separated from Technical
  Management
• Sophie Clivio leads one of the Technical
  Management teams
• New editor - John McKillop - will be in
  LIllehammer
• New projects must declare timescales - 2/3/4
  years
• Automatic cancellation if miss DIS or FDIS by
  more than six months
• New criteria of global relevance for NWI
• New SVAT forms - still awaited
• Proposals for reduced DIS ballot period
• New ISO Directives due by end year - consolidation

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ISO publication process

• Process improvements
• ISO editors to help SC4 to update SDs to be fully
  compliant with ISO Directives
• ISO editors to review documents before submission
• Aim is to minimise editorial intervention
• Need to sort requirement for individual DIS
• HTML
• Still finalising detailed HTML with no frames
• Need process refinement in SC4
• Need SD updates to reflect final decisions

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Standards as databases (TMB 75/2003)

• The Technical Management Board,
• noting the proposal to publish ISO Standards in
  certain fields, such as graphical symbols,
  country and currency codes etc. as databases,
• approves this proposal in principle,
• agrees that a maintenance agency approach should
  be applied to keep the databases up to date,
• underlines the need for close cooperation between
  the ISO committee and the maintenance agency,
• and notes that each standard proposed for
  publication in this form will be submitted to the
  TMB for approval

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ISO on the Web

• URN specification produced to reflect all
  feasible standards structures, including
  Amendments, TCs, new editions, joint ISO/IEC
  standards, etc, etc
• Ed Barkmeyer produced RFC submission draft
• OID folks suggesting their scheme
• ISO response by end October
• MIME types
• Need publicly available, downloadable FOC
  specifications
• Need to be justified to ISO Council

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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
• Any proposal for free-of-charge standards would
  need to be clearly and simply presented,
  addressing
• the impact on promoting the implementation of the
  standards
• the possible impact on NSB revenue

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Liaison challenges

• USPI-NL accepted as liaison
• SASIG has agreed to request for liaison
• Working with ISO TC2 on 13584-511
• Working with IEC SC65B on 13584-501
• ISO TC213/TC10 - ISO 16792
• ISO TC67 interest in 15926 Parts 4-7
• ISO TC37 terminology
• New relevant work in TC154 - can get to their
  website
• Liaisons to TC8 and TC184/SC5 required
• IEC TC93 - meeting this week - still disconnected

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ISO/IEC Guide "Product properties and families"

• Objective is to assist the ISO/IEC TCs to apply
  the common ISO/IEC information model as defined
  in ISO 13584 / IEC 61360 in describing the
  objects/products in their respective areas in a
  consistent and interoperable manner.
• Huge business opportunity for standards bodies
• ISO/TMB and IEC/SMB agreed to launch JWG1
• First meeting 8 September 2004

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ISO/IEC JWG1 - Scope

• Produce the ISO/IEC guide and appropriate
  documents
• Develop and formulate a vision of dictionaries of
  product properties and families for the next five
  years
• Provide guidance to ISO/IEC committees on
  producing dictionaries of product properties and
  families or adding content to existing
  dictionaries
• Define mechanisms for integrating dictionaries of
  product properties and families including
  recommendations on how to organise the input of
  content of different ISO/IEC committees into
  dictionaries

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ISO/IEC JWG1 - Scope (cont)

• Recommend approaches for publication of
  dictionaries of product properties and families
  as online databases
• Provide guidance to industrial users of
  dictionaries on how to apply ISO and IEC
  dictionaries of product properties and families
• Maintain a publicly accessible issues log and
  review this guide in order to integrate feedback
  from product ISO/IEC committees

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ISO/IEC JWG1 - Deliverable

• Revised scope statement produced
• Action items assigned to working group
• All input shall be provided by October 29th 2004
• Drafting committee Ms. Bialkowski (D), Mr.
  Dijkstra (NL), Mr. Murayama (JP), Mr. Ondracek
  (D), Mr. Pierra (F) and Mr. Radack (USA)
• Teleconference set for 9 November
• Next meeting in conjunction with next SC4 (agreed
  without recourse to TMB)

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MoU/MG matters

• Continuing strong representation from ISO, ITU,
  UN/CEFACT, OASIS, OAGIS, EAN, SWIFT, CEN/ISSS
• IEC?
• Integrated standards view of eBusiness
• OASIS and UN/CEFACT agreed to continue
  cooperation on ebXML
• First four ebXML parts published as ISO 15000
• Core Components Technical Specification
  (UN/CEFACT) submitted as 15000-5
• Strong convergence of data definitions using CCTS
• all TCs invited to participate in this
  convergence
• Core components workshop to be planned

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Current MoU/MG issues

• Framework for eBusiness standards
• includes CEFACT and OASIS models
• actively supported by NIST eBSC activity
• Open registry for eBusiness standards work
• Universal Business Language (UBL)
• Version 1.0 being balloted as OASIS standard -
  ISO?
• Further development under CEFACT to be considered
• Localisation in the Far East
• Information architecture
• Product classification schemes
• e-Catalogues/Dictionaries - structure and content
• Enterprise information models
• Master data.code lists

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Current MoU/MG issues

• Barcoding for permanent part marking
• ISO TC20 and JTC1/SC31
• Biometrics
• led by JTC1/SC37, but other groups also involved
• build on existing work
• 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

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Current MoU/MG issues

• Web services
• No clear definition
• Multiple proprietary viewpoints
• W3C failed to define consistently
• JTC1 working group results to be reviewed
• ePC
• Global Data Synchronisation Network
• Standards under development for 256-bit tags
• UID applications - up to 10 Mb chips
• Privacy issues
• Next meeting 22-23 November 2004, Boston

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TC184 plenary

• 15/16 November 2004, Washington
• SC4 report to be compiled
• Other related agenda items
• TC154 links
• ASAM
• Integration of diagnostics and maintenance
  applications
• JWG1
• Any requests to the TC?

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Administrative action items

• Web page for vendor products - CEO to consider
• Strategy for press releases - CEO to consider
• Meeting fees
• Incomplete information/slippages to be updated
• Ron Kolakowski has the database

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Convenor Vacancies

• Reappointments
• JWG9?
• New CEO chair
• QC Coordinator and deputy
• Deputy for WG11
• Participants for WG3/T19 - AP203 ed2
• Participants for WG11

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Challenges for the week

• PPC debate on architecture
• Change Management for modules
• PLCS ballot comment resolution - currently FDIS
• Part 28 ed 2 needs editor to complete
• Supplementary directives update
• Future development planning for PLIB
• Reference data libraries - 15926-4/7
• Future strategy for electrical APs 210/212 JWG9
• Link to ebXML core components
• Identification of UML/OWL opportunities
• Liaison statements for JWG1, MoU/MG, TC184
• Marketing plan

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Challenges for the future

• Continued building on the foundation
• industry implementation
• new structures for sharing
• new areas of application
• new representation technologies
• extension to libraries and reference data
• convergence with other business areas
• EXPLOITING OUR INVESTMENT IN INFORMATION