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 Vico Equense
• ISO Issues
• Project issues
• Liaison challenges
• Administrative issues
• Action item status
• Issues from the PPC and Convenors

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Briefing by Secretariat

• Ron Kolakowski is sole Secretariat representative
  this week
• Ballot status on SC4ONLINE
• Website development
• Advanced resolutions

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Meeting details

• Industry day Wednesday
• Offsite in the morning
• Workshop in the afternoon
• Liaison plenary combined with OTF on Monday
  evening
• PLIB seminar all day Friday (in French)

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Challenges from Vico Equense

• Project targets as declared to the Secretariat
• - Less than 5 of projects delayed
• AP221, AP236, PAS 20542 published
• Draft of AP233
• AP235 CD out for ballot
• MANDATE and PSL submitted for publication to ISO
• 13584-501 and -511 submitted to ISO
• Coherent NWI on catalogue XML accepted
• Supplementary Directives update out for ballot
• ISO TMB Standards as Databases proposal delivered
• SC4 MA proposal/database business case drafted
• PAFOC proposal for AP203
• JWG1 documents - ballot coordination
• Strategy for harmonisation with core components
• Proposal for improved liaison with TC154
• Role of SC4 established on RFID application
  standards
• Reduced cost base for 2007 meetings

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WG plans from Vico Equense

• WG2
• NWI for joint activity with 22745 team for simple
  XML schema for exchange of part characteristics
• NWI for simplified XML schema for PLIB covering
  dictionaries and reference dictionary
• NWI proposal for using spreadsheets to capture
  PLIB information
• NWI for Web services for reconciliation of source
  organisation, code name, and ontology services
• NWI proposal for property templates
• IS version of 13584-511 sent to Geneva following
  review by TC2
• Draft of DIS for modified dictionary model
  13584-42, for review at meeting

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WG plans from Vico Equense

• WG3
• Launch of DIS ballot for AP 203 ed 2
• Draft of AP209e2
• Completion of TS documents for AP 210 ed 2
  modules
• Launch of DIS ballot for AP210 ed2
• Submission of AP221 for publication
• CD for AP233 by April 6
• Launch of DIS ballot for AP235 by September
• Publication of ISO 10303 AP236 on furniture

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WG plans from Vico Equense

• WG3
• Delivery of final AP238 by end May
• Plan for final draft of 15926-3 TS
• NWI/CD TS for 15926-6
• NWI on Gellish table, Process monitoring data,
  OWL representation of ISO 15926-2
• Development of draft TS version of 15926-3 for
  review in Toulouse
• Ballot resolution for 15926-4
• Ballot resolution for 15926-7 for templates

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WG plans from Vico Equense

• JWG8
• Submission of ISO 15531-43 by end March
• Submission of ISO 18629-13, -14, -41, -42, -43,
  -44 by end March
• New work item on 15531-44 by end May

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WG plans from Vico Equense

• WG12
• Launch of CD ballot on Part 45 ed2 to support AP
  235
• Draft of 10303-58 ready for CD ballot
• Draft of ISO 10303-59 for CD ballot in July
• Submission of 10303-52, -53, -110 for DIS ballot
• Completion of CD ballots for ISO 22745-1,11,13,20
• Launch of CD/TS ballot for 22745-10,30,50, 200
• Launch of CD ballot of ISO 8000 components for
  Catalogue Management

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Key ISO developments

• Brian Stanton here until Tuesday
• Latest ISO Directives
• Part 1 PPC/secretariat to look at process
  impact
• Part 2 incorporated in Supplementary Directives
  draft
• Internal Committee balloting application
• New submission interface with progress tracking
• SC4 can submit multiple parts by arrangement
• MA/RA can be based on TS, but note six year life

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Cancellations by ISO

• DIS/FDIS dates fixed in ISO database for NWI
• Three month period of grace for DIS delivery
• No new cancellations
• Due for cancellation in September 10303-112
• Great care needed as projects approach targets
• AP233 came under threat due to poor information
• 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)

• ISO TMB activity
• Four main classes of database identified
• 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 (2)

• Group now working electronically
• Consultation from ISO on use of stage code system
  and IEC process
• Chris Kreiler and MA team provided SC4 position
• Based on draft MA document

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Project Management

• Project updates in advance
• 209 tasks in ISO work programme some missing
• Systematic reviews completed NWI option
• AP221, AP210, AP236 late
• Tasks showing late/missing information
• PLIB parts 501 and 511
• 15926-4
• Eleven parts in ISO publication
• Project updates will be sought during the meeting
• Ron Kolakowski has the database

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Project Issues

• Confirmation of overall SC4 product terminology
  as per exploder
• 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
• MANDATE Part 44
• Gear forms from TC60 via Germany
• Others?
• Review set for Tuesday at 1300

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Liaison challenges

• Objections from IAI to AP 241 proposal IAI now
  seem to want to standardise PAS 16739
• Briefly met TC10 chair happy to collaborate
• Collaboration with TC10 on ISO 16792 - technical
  documentation
• ISO/TC 10/WG 17 Vocabulary of terms and
  definitions
• Study group on document management between IEC
  TC3 and ISO TC10
• Coordination with TC171/SC2 on PDF/E
• 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
• Coordination with JTC1/SC7 on Systems Engineering
  NWI
• Requirements for liaison with ISO TC215 on
  medical informatics (Germany)
• Electrical liaisons - IEC TC93 liaison
  statement
• Review of list of liaisons
• discrepancies with ISO
• effectiveness

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IEC SB3

• NWI form offered as alternative to Change
  Management form
• ISO/IEC Guide 75 on strategic principles for
  industrial automation to be published after
  editorial corrections
• eBusiness Framework being extended to cover
  Industrial automation PPC Big Picture
• O3NEIDA consortium supporting open standards for
  industrial automation
• New chairman being sought
• IEC TC93 not present

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TC154

• Chair met with TC184 and TC154 chairs in November
• Now have clear view of work programme almost
  entirely resourced by UN/CEFACT
• AFNOR working on requested proposal for
  accommodating TC154 work programme in TC184
• Draft produced January 2006
• Final proposal due June 2006
• No longer urgent, since TC154 chair and
  secretariat now available until 2008
  reluctantly
• Integration at WG level is unacceptable to TC154
• Integration at SC level doesnt change anything
• Are there any requirements for joint work?
• TC154 chair present this week to discuss further
• Both WG2 and ISO 22745 projects engaging with
  UN/CEFACT

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JTC1/SC31 on RFID

• Liaison meeting and telecon with TC20/WG13 and
  JTC1/SC31 in ad hoc group Mason, Benson,
  Radack, Leal, Swindells, Sandsmark, Yee
• SC31 appointed Rob Leibrandt as liaison officer
• Action items for SC4
• Review process for definition of information
  objects
• Identify suitable information objects and apply
  for AFI/NSI as appropriate
• NWI for extension of ISO TS 21849 to general
  industrial use
• Appointment of liaison officers
• Interesting set of technical issues identified
• Possible use in other parts of TC184
• Activity being promoted through MoU/MG
• SC31 approved continuation of ad hoc group

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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
• Common IPR policy for standards from different
  groups
• Facilitates use of combinations of standards to
  meet business need
• ISO/IEC/ITU agreement welcomed
• Rolling review of MoU/MG recommendations not
  more than three years
• Valuable exchange with collocated UN/CEFACT and
  ISO TC154 meetings
• Howard Mason of BAE Systems, Chair of ISO
  TC184/SC4 confirmed as MoU/MG chair for 2006-2007
• Next meeting in October, prior to Hershey
• 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
• Supported by matrix of descriptions and examples
• Being used for standards planning by the US
  Aerospace industry and other groups

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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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Rev 4 2005-06-10
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Current MoU/MG issues (2)

• Open registry for eBusiness standards work
• Based on MoU/MG Framework
• 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
• Terminology
• Federated structure of definition databases
• Appropriate business model required for free
  downloads from the web
• Semantic interoperability principles document
  agreed

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Current MoU/MG issues (3)

• 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

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Current MoU/MG issues (4)

• 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 May 2006, based on initial
  experience with UBL and TDED components.
  Library administration process drafted
• 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 (5)

• Universal Business Language (UBL)
• Version 1.0 accepted as OASIS standard - may go
  to ISO
• Localisation in the Far East - opportunity for
  TC37
• UBL 2.0 due 4Q2006
• Transfer to CEFACT after 2.0 being negotiated
• Test case for CCTS 3.0
• Convergence with UNeDOCS and TDED being explored
• Open tools for generating UN Layout Key documents
  and HTML forms
• Global name and address standards
• UPU standard for postal addresses
• Need further consideration of location for
  deliveries, etc
• Harmonised taxonomy of eGovernment services

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Current MoU/MG issues (6)

• Feasibility study to converge the GS1 GPC and
  UNSPSC classification schemes
• Biometrics
• Secure container transportation
• Web services relaunch of JTC1 study group
• Cultural diversity
• Consistent URN for standards ISO proposal
• Clear set of definitions for different elements
  of security to be defined
• Data protection/privacy requirements to be
  defined by government bodies, for action by
  standards groups

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Administrative action items

• STEPmod backups
• HTML build of modules
• Standards retention policy for SC4
• Governance of SC4ONLINE
• Policy issues from SC4 Resolutions - PPC
• Handbook updates PPC
• Improving the work between meetings
• Open source standards?

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QC items

• Dated references to non-SC4 standards
• Bugzilla requirements statement
• Possible use of HTML CSS for harvested documents

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CEO items

• Web page for vendor products - CEO to consider
• Updates to SOAP - CEO
• CEO to provide libraries of documents to
  plagiarise for articles

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WG13 launch

• 24 experts nominated
• Need to select Convenor and deputy 4 candidates
• Bruno Garnier-Moiroux
• Tim King
• Junfeng Zhan
• Steve Arnett (Deputy)
• SC4 to select and appoint

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Convenor Vacancies

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

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Future meetings

• 22-27 October 2006 Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
• (50th plenary)
• 25-30 March 2007 Funchal, Portugal
• 1-6 July 2007 Ibusuki, Japan
• October 2007 Dallas, TX, USA hosted by SOLE
• Autumn 2008 - Korea

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Other issues
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Liaisons - Brief Reports

• SC4/OMG overlaps and related activities - David
  Price
• Maintenance Agency for the ISO 13399 Dictionaries
  - Norman Swindells
• ECCMA and AC135 - Peter Benson
• IAI and PAS 16739 Thomas Leibich

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Liaison Plenary/Open Technical Forum

• Topic Manufacturing - product data needs
• for the next generation
• Time Monday 17.30-20.00
• Presentations
• The IMS project - Bob Kiggans
• IEC SB3 Industrial Automation model - Howard
  Mason
• Liaison with ISO TC 184/SC 5 Introduction to IEC
  62264 by Jean-Jacques Michel
• ISO 13399 - Jonas Nordstrom
• STEP Shipbuilding Demonstration Highlights - Ron
  Wood
• Product description and cataloguing for
  manufacturing equipment - Raymond Betz
• The PROMISE project PLM - Dimitris Kiritsis
• From post-processor programming to STEP world and
  Long Term Archiving - Pierre-Laurent Kociemba
  (CEO - CIMPA / EADS)
• Liaison with ASD STEP LOng Term ARchival Project
  - Jean-Yves Delaunay (SC 4 Airbus Coordinator)

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Challenge for the future

• Standards are the next business paradigm
• SC4 standards have been proved to deliver benefit
  to organisations which implement them
• Much of the current work programme is completed
  within a year
• What does SC4 need to deliver in the next three
  years in order to drive the wider deployment of
  its standards and information models?
• What barriers do we need to break down?
• What is the KILLER AP(P)?