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Closing PlenaryClosing Plenary1212thth March 2004 March 2004

UN/CEFACTUN/CEFACT

UNITED NATIONS CENTRE FOR TRADE FACILITATION AND ELECTRONIC BUSINESSUnder the auspices of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

UN/CEFACTBonn Germany 9-12 March 2004

UN/CEFACT Forum Closing Plenary Agenda

Welcome New Proposals Future Venues Group Reports

TBG ICG ATG TMG

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Definition of common vocabulary used in business

operations

Definition of common vocabulary used in business

operations

Definition of common processes (e.g. CBP Library,

Collaboration Patterns)

Definition of common processes (e.g. CBP Library,

Collaboration Patterns)

Specialization of processes for a specific purpose

Specialization of processes for a specific purpose

Specialization of processes for a specific partnership

(e.g. CPA)

Specialization of processes for a specific partnership

(e.g. CPA)

Domain of this project

Domain of this project

CEFACT FORUM COORDINATION Team Report

- 1 New Proposal Approved         UMM Profile of UML Artifact

TMG Lead

New Project Proposals

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America McLean Virginia 13 – 17 Sept 2004 – Hosted by DISA

Location TBD March 2005

CEFACT FORUM Future Venues

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General Information

• All of the MAY Plenary Documents are available on the UN/Website http://www.unece.org/uncefact/

• CSG OVERVIEW TRADE/CEFACT/2004/36• CSG REORGANIZATION TRADE/CEFACT/2004/27• IPR TRADE/CEFACT/2003/6/

Rev.1• SSP TRADE/CEFACT/2004/26• Mandates/ Terms of Reference

TRADE/CEFACT/R.650/Rev.3

• Reminder: Elections in September

• A moment to reflect

Now a word of appreciation: …..

Hosted by: EBES

UNITED NATIONS CENTRE FOR TRADE FACILITATION AND ELECTRONIC BUSINESSUnder the auspices of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

UN/CEFACTUN/CEFACT

Chair: Mike Conroy

Vice Chair: David Dobbing

ICGICGInformation Content Management Information Content Management

GroupGroup

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UN Recommendations

1. Review of UN Recommendations under modificationa. Rec. 24 – Trade and Transport Status Codes

b. Rec. 20 – Units of Measure

c. Others

ICG approved ODP public review

Outstanding work itemODP within next 3 months

No changes submitted to review

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Workflow & Administration

2. Approval of the Group workflow procedures

3. ICG website

4. Review of Work Programme.

We APPROVED THEM!

Its an urgent action item

Time is going by and we’ve got lots to do!

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Workflow documentation

Business Requirements Specification – BRS • Objectives• Scope – use case

• Business requirements – use cases, activity diagrams

• Conceptual model – class diagram

• Business constraints – dependency tables

Requirements Specification Mapping – RSM• Conceptual model – class diagram

• Canonical model – class diagram

• BBIEs with constraints

• ABIEs associated with ACCs

• Associated documentation

TBG BRSRSM

RSM Technologysolution

BusinessRequirements

ICG ATG

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BRS

5. Review of the Business Requirements Specification (BRS) comments

BRS submitted to ATG and TBG for review & approval

Presented workflow (BRS/RSM ) to e-cert project team

Development of e-cert BRS with ICG support

E-cert project will be treated for workflow (BRS/RSM ) proof of concept

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RSM

6. Requirements Specification Mapping (RSM) a. Finalise initial draft with other groupsb. Evaluate the INSTAT example to verify RSM document

content

First Draft ready for publication!!

Submitted project request for development of UMM profile for UML

TMG to lead project. ICG will provide initial contribution

ICG will provide an interim profile for class diagrams

Developed canonical model for INSTAT message

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Other items

7. Development of the ICG repository strategy

8. Review of the UN Code List migration plan

More time, more people

Examined registry specification.

Planned study in detail before Washington

UN/CEFACTUN/CEFACTSIMPLE, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE

PROCESSES

FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS.

ATGApplied Technologies Group

Chair: Margaret PembertonVice Chair: Anders Grangård

UNITED NATIONS CENTRE FOR TRADE FACILITATION AND ELECTRONIC BUSINESSUnder the auspices of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

UN/CEFACT

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ATG Resolution

ATG resolves that the UN/CEFACT registry should

fully support the latest version of the ebXML

registry specifications, which includes the storage of CCTS defined artefacts.

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ATG Projects

Standard Business Document Header« Standard Business Document Header' will

enable integration between internal applications, enterprise applications, and business-to-business infrastructure by acting as a consistent interface between applications. » o ATG Approval o Implementation Verification started [ODP

Step 6]

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ATG1 (UN/EDIFACT) ProjectsAnders Grangård

UML to UN/EDIFACT Transformation Rules

« to enable ebXML Core Components compliant UN/EDIFACT constructs to be created based on UMM compliant models  »

o 1st working draft this week [ODP Step 3]o ATG review end of April [ODP Step 4] o Public review May [ODP Step 5]

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ATG1 (UN/EDIFACT) ProjectsAnders Grangård

UN/EDIFACT Data Maintenance Requests for D.04Ao 64 DMR’s

Approved 15

JT’d 25

Postponed 8

Rejected 16

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ATG2 (XML) ProjectsMark Crawford

XML Naming and Design Rules« Rules and guidelines for the application of this

important technology as part of UN/CEFACT’s strategy for next-generation cross-functional business messages »

o Worked hard and long on the XML Naming and design rules

o Internal review planned for Aprilo Public Review planned for May / Juneo Implementation / Verification planned for

September meeting in Washington

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ATG2 (XML) Projects (cont)Mark Crawford

Review of requirements for other ATG2 projects to be performed in June

Begin to formalise the schema production process and further identify additional information dependencies from TBG and ICG

Open invitation to weekly conference calls

o Every Monday UTC 12:30

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ATG – Next Meeting

Walldorf, Germany June 21-25th 2004 Hosted by SAP

ALL WELCOME

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UN/CEFACTUN/CEFACTSIMPLE, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE

PROCESSES

FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS.

UN/CEFACT

TBGTBG

International Trade Facilitation and International Trade Facilitation and Business Process Group Business Process Group

Chair : Ralph Berwanger

Vice-Chair(s) : Sue Probert, Mike Doran

TBG Report - SEOUL September 15 –19, 2003

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Achievements of the Week

• 13 Groups – 90 Participants

• 4 new Projects Approved, 2 new Project co-operations arranged

• Presentations of the week

• TBG 6 - Open Forum on current projects

• TBG 14 - CBPC Catalog Specification

• TBG 17 - Harmonization Session

• Forum Operating Procedures – TBG, ATG, ICG

• Future Organisational Structure Submission to Plenary

• e-Cert project meeting

• TBG17 – Core Component Library Milestone

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Projects Update

• 4 new Projects Approved• Invoice Process project• Material Safety Data Sheet

(MSDS)• Trade Facilitation and TF

Security Models• 2 new Project co-operations arranged

between TBG6 and TBG1• e-Catalog Project• e-Tendering Project

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TBG3 – Transport - ResolutionsResolution 1 – UNeDocs Project

TBG3, recognising the need to take into account the Transport inputs in the UNeDocs deliverables, resolves to seek coordination with the UNeDocs project team at UN level and hence request to review their data model, semantic content and messages related to Transport. Any resultant changes will be submitted to ensure consistency with the TBG3 ebXML work

Resolution 2 – Geolocation ISO / TC211 and TC204TBG3 resolves to endorse the proposal from ISO/TC211 for expressing geographical coordinates (longitude, latitude, altitude…) in relation to the ISO 6709 standard update, and to consider this input in its modelling and ITIGG implementation guidelines. TBG3 will also continue to work jointly with ISO / TC204 / WG7.2 to consider this approach in the standard development work on “ Data dictionary and messages set for Intermodal Transport ”.

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TBG14 – Business Process Modelling

Joint Session with TBG 15 – International Trade

Procedures Working Group

o Identified possible candidates for future work including

the single window initiative import/export proposal of the

international chamber of commerce

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TBG15 – International Trade Procedures

Joint Session with TBG3 (Transport) and TBG5 (Finance) on Update of UNECE Recommendation 12 – Measures to facilitate Maritime documentary procedures.

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TBG Submission to UN/CEFACT Plenary

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eCert Ratification Project TeamMeeting 9 – 11 March

Next Steps

1. Seek TBG endorsement of Team’s Terms of Reference – March 2004

2. Consider draft Business Requirements Specification (BRS) – April 2004

3. Review eCert data elements for completeness – April 2004

4. Engage EU & WCO representation – April 2004

5. Next meeting by teleconference to discuss progress – May 2004

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UN/CEFACTUN/CEFACTSIMPLE, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE

PROCESSES

FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS.

TMGTechniques and Methodologies

Group

Klaus-Dieter Naujok, ChairChristian Huemer, Vice Chair

Jens Dietrich, Secretariat

UN/CEFACT

UNITED NATIONS CENTRE FOR TRADE FACILITATION AND ELECTRONIC BUSINESSUnder the auspices of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

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Highlights of Activities this week

Generalo Progressed new TMG Membership rules which

would ensure that the active contributors are the decision makers of their projects

CC Resolutiono “In order to have all specifications within the

ebXML framework within ISO, We resolve to submit the Core Components Technical Specification Version 2.01 to ISO TC 154 for fast-tracking as a Draft Technical Specification.”

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Highlights of Activities this week

IPR Policyo Ready to reissue call for participation with

IPR Policy and Membership rules as agreed to by Plenary

New Projectso Agreed in principle to accept ICG proposed

project to develop a UMM profile of UML artifacts TMG StC to accept (no quorum at this meeting)

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Highlights of Activities this week

BPWGo Reviewed BCF Roadmap with general session

to clarify what work items would be in what document with in the N09X set

o Progressed work on N090 (BCF Introduction)o UBAC:

Joint meeting with LG for continued requirements and use case discussions

Conducted discussion seminars: Legal considerations and ebXML, Standard Business Document Header (SBDH)

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Highlights of Activities this week

CCWGo Resolved to submit CCTS Version 2.01 for

fast tracking to ISO TC 154 as a Technical Specification. Planned list serve discussion

Issue: Shall we work on CCTS under ISO or UN/CEFACT?

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Highlights of Activities this week

CCWGo CCTS

Will send out call for comments on version 2.01 30-day comment period to end April 30th Teleconferences to start May 13th Possible F2F week of 26-July

o CCUG Finalize alignment with UMM User Guide Send to TMG Steering Committee for approval

to send out for TMG final review

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Next meetings

24-28 May 2004, TMG Meetingo Waldorf Germany

13-17 September, Forum Meetingo McLean, VA, USA

6-10 December, TMG Meetingo Detroit, MI, USA

March 2005, Forumo Asia

May/June 2005, TMG Meetingo Barcelona, Spain (???)

UN/CEFACTUN/CEFACTSIMPLE, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE

PROCESSES

FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS.

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