TMC Report
2012/11/19-20 in Tehran
by the Chair of TMC, Hisanao Sugamata
Participants:
9 participants from 4 countries/economies (Appendix 1)
( Chinese Taipei, Iran, Japan, Korea )
Meeting topics:
I. UN/CEFACT Update by Hisanao Sugamata
(1) Business Document Header and Envelope (BDH&E)
èProject approved being supported by
Japan, Denmark, Norway, Australia
(2) Core Interoperable Foundation Library (CIFL)
èUN/CEFACT may maintain the core part of standard while
the domain standards are developed by communities.
èBackground:
eBusiness Standards are fragmenting in the world through community SDOs such as WCO, OAGI, SWIFT, GS1.
UN/CEFACT dose not have enough resources to cover all the domain’s requirements.
èThe project of CIFL is under discussion (not approved).
(3) Open Data Interchange Framework (ODIF)
Supported by Mei-Li Chen
èISO TC154 is proposing the new relationship between TC154 and UN/CEFACT; TC154 will cover the technical standards (UMM, CCTS, NDR, etc) while UN/CEFACT
maintain the semantic libraries.
èTC154 has finalized the draft technical report of ODIF.
èUN/CEFACT has not started the discussion officially.
(4) Trusted Exchange of Trade Documents
Supported by Youngkon Lee
èCovering the following subjects
- Trusted trans-boundary electronic trade document exchange
- Authentication of Trade Documents by Means other than Signature
- Maintaining trust within a 4-corner network model (OASIS/BDX)
- Long Term Signature profiles for EDI and Electronic Documents
- # Mail, the certified email address
è The project for the recommendation will be considered.
II. CCL Utilization in Asia by Hisanao Sugamata
(1) Chinese Taipei, Korea and Japan have developed each local
language supported CCL.
(2) Considering the current UN/CEFACT situation including CIFL and
ODIF, the chair proposed the rearrangement the CCL utilization
project. The proposed concept is called CIDL (Cross Industry Data
Library) which is based on CIFL and has been experimented in
Japan. (Appendix 2)
(3) Action agreed:
Japan continues to develop the guidelines for CIDL.
Japan will introduce the CIDL guideline on the next TMC meeting.
Members will consider implementing CIDL for Asian region based on the guideline.
III. SOA Interoperability Framework by Youngkon Lee
(1) The SOA Framework and Design Guideline for Government has been finalized in Korea. (Appendix 3)
(2) The guideline for AFACT may cover:
- SOA Interoperability Framework
- How to define the business components?
- How to define the service components?
Identifiable
Interoperable
Reusable
- Register the service component in service registry in future.
(3) Action agreed:
Youngkon Lee can start for AFACT when AFACT members agreed
to utilize the SOA Framework and Design guideline.
The chair ask the participants to study the SOA presentation and
respond to the chair whether joining the project or not.
( Appendix 1: Participant list )
(Appendix 2)
(Appendix 3)
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