[wg11] WG11 Minutes from Bath

Dave Loffredo loffredo at steptools.com
Mon Jul 12 15:23:37 EDT 2004


Hi All, 

I hope everyone who attended had a good meeting in Bath!  The
following minutes are also on the tc184/sc4 documents web site 
as wg11n242.
					- Dave


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TC184/SC4/WG11/N242 Bath, UK Minutes
2004-07-05 to 2004-07-09

Opening Plenary Mon 10:30-Noon	
ATTENDEES 
Takashi Inouye		JP	inouye at fqs.fujitsu.com
Jochen Haenisch		NO	jochen.haenisch at epmtech.jotne.com
Mats Lindeblad		SE	mats.lindeblad at volvo.com
David Price		UK	david.price at eurostep.com
Allison Barnard-Feeney	US	abf at nist.gov
David Loffredo		US	loffredo at steptools.com

PROGRESS AND STATUS OF WG11 PROJECTS

Part 11 Edition 2 - status 
	Reporting - Jochen Haenisch
	No meeting

	Under the new SC4 cancellation policy, P11e2 is scheduled to
	be cancelled in the fall if it is not published.

	The Secretariat is still waiting for final document from
	before sending to Geneva.  About 20 editorial problems that
	were discovered since FDIS still need to be fixed. 

	Phil promises to produce new document by end of week, but
	needs definitions for PRIMARY and ROOT schema.  Jochen will
	work on this with possible help from Allison & PW.

	Send to Geneva by 2004-08-01

 	As a result of E2 to E1 testing, EXPRESS E2 Short to E1 Long
	Implementer Agreements have been published as wg11n239.  This
	appears to be the final form of these agreements.	

	Need to begin TC for language identifier and to fold in the
	contents of the implementer agreements above (rule for
	handling of referenced entity data types to constraing to
	dependant instantiation -- missing type label for local
	declaration of generics within functions) The TC should also
	address SEDS #915, submitted by Lothar Klein, if needed.

	Allison volunteered to reformat the implementer aggrements
	into the Technical Corrigendum format.  We need additional
	volunteers for the TC team to develop text for the remaining
	two issues (lang id and SEDS 915).  Dave L will circulate a
	request for participation on the WG11 exploder after the
	meeting and specifically requests participation from Jochen
	Haenish and Phil Spiby.

	Phil wishes to resign as Project Lead once the document is
	published.


Part 12  - published 1997-07-15
	Has gone through two reviews.  We must now
		- Issue as a TR type 3
		- Progress to IS
		- Withdraw

 	Either of the first two will require editorial changes to
	the document for the new supplemental directives and at least
	new copyright dates, page headers/footers.  Complicating this
	situation, the original author has just retired. Unknown if we
	still have original LaTex source.

	The last one (withdraw) may cause problems with the few ATS's
	that have been published.

	There is some interest in keeping this.  Call for editor.

Part 14 - status 40.60
	Reporting -- Peter Denno (via Dave Loffredo)
	No meeting

 	DIS ballot ran from 2002-04-02 to 2002-10-25
	Passed with 100% approval, so no FDIS needed.  

	Under the new SC4 cancellation policy, P14 is scheduled to
	be cancelled in the fall if it is not published.

	Document has been updated and is currently beeing reviewed
	for the signoff checklists. When complete, circulate updated
	document for a 4-week wg11 review before sending to ISO for
	publication.  Begin review by 2004-09-01 and send to Geneva 
	by 2004-09-01.


Part 21e2 - No report, published 2002-01-15
Part 22	- No report, published 1998-12-15
	SEDS listed as open
	311, 340, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 400, 401,
	402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 409, 497


Part 23	- No report, published 2000-12-01
Part 24 - No report, published 2001-12-15

Part 25 - status 30.92
	Reporting -- David Price
	Met 2004-07-06, 10:30-12

	Unanimously passed second TS ballot (see sc4n1584)
	Comments addressed, document 2/3 updated.
	Reached agreement on resolution of all comments.  Accepted
	almost every change.  Deferred part of one comment that was
	the same as the "lean mapping".

	Will prepare new document for publication, anticipate ready in
	one month or so.   Will circulate for 4-week wg11 review before
	sending to ISO for publication.

	There have been implementation tests of the edition one
	specification by the IAI IFC team and by David Price.  There
	is now enough coverage in the (standard? impl?) to publish ISO
	15926-2 as UML (see exff.org).  Edition one is also being used
	in the recently adopted OMG PLM Services Specification.

	In discussing a NWI for Edition 2, the project notes that E1
	is one-way EXPRESS Edition 1 to UML 1.5 designed to support
	STEP implementation using UML-based software engineering
	tools.  The resulting UML is not tagged as being from EXPRESS.

	The proposed second edition will remain based on UML 1.5, and
	will extend the current mapping to cover EXPRESS E2.   It will
	also add a new capability to represent EXPRESS E2 constructs
	annotated as EXPRESS (a UML Profile for EXPRESS) and extend
	use of Object Constraint Language where straightforward.  
	(Not expecting to include complete support for all of EXPRESS
	expressions)


	The following usage scenarios are expected for the Part 25
	Edition 2:

	- continued support of P25e1 usage : STEP implementation
	using UML-based software engineering tools

	- support EXPRESS and UML constructs on the same UML diagram

	- enable the use of UML tools to create EXPRESS schemas in a
	manner similar to the way EXPRESS-G tools are used today

	- enable the use of UML in the specification of a complete
	software system that includes EXPRESS constructs and the use
	of EXPRESS in the context of the OMG Model Driven Architecture


	Technical approach expectations
	UML Stereotypes and Tagged Values, not extensions to UML
	itself, will be used to define this aspect of P25e2

	UML 2 and MOF 2 are not yet finalized or commercially
	available in UML tools so, Part 25 Edition 2 is focused 
	on UML 1.5.

	Suggesting Part 25 Edition 3 will be required to address UML2
	and MOF 2 in 2005


Part 26 - No report, cancelled
Part 27 - No report, published 2000-11-15

Part 28e1 - No report, published 
Part 28e2 - 
	No Report
	Joint Meeting 2004-07-07, 3:30-5

	The Part 28e2 document is out for CD ballot until 2004-07-21.
	See sc4n1711 for details.  A comment resolution workshop will
	be held in Groton CT on August 10-12

	A joint WG3/WG11/implementers forum meeting was held to
	discuss on use requirements for XML / Part 28e2.  Outline of
	use cases from interested AP teams and the Part 28 team.

	During the discussion, several levels of use were identified:

	- "Simple" mapping to XML, defined by APs
	- Mapping to XML with validation capabilities
	- Fully-configurable mapping

	These requirements are to be documented in comments on the CD
	ballot.  The Groton workshop will focus on simple case first,
	with possible division of document for publication.  Need to
	assure cross-enterprise consistency. The definition of
	"simple" is still being refined

	Teleconferences will be held on 2004-07-16 and 2004-07-30 to
	prepare.  

Part 29 - No report, cancelled
Part 31 - No report, published 1994-12-31 status 90.93
Part 32 - No report, published 2000-01-04
Part 33 - No report, cancelled 
Part 34 - No report, published 2001-02-01

Part 35 - status 50.99
	Forwarded for TS publication.



NEW BUSINESS

EXPRESS-Based Binary Data Exchange ------------------------------
Met 2004-07-06, 1-5pm

Mats Lindeblad and David Price held a meeting on Tuesday to discuss
work on starting a new WG11 project for binary exchange of
EXPRESS-defined data.  Prior to the Bath meeting, David Price
circulated the following documents for requirements and potential
implementation Technologies:

  wg11n240 Requirements on EXPRESS Binary Data Representations
  wg11n241 A Survey of the State-of-the-Art in Binary Data Representation


At the moment no standardized mapping from EXPRESS to binary exists
and there is a percieved industry need for an efficient, binary form
to represent EXPRESS-compatible data.  Note that this form would
complement to ISO10303-21/28 and be useful fo Engineering Analysis,
Manufacturing, Measurements and more.

Participants representing Sweden, UK, US, Japan, Germany, and France
have expressed support and the EU 6th FP project "VIVACE" has funcing
for a Project Lead and Editor 2004-2007.

During the week, Mats presented the above to change management in
support of a PWI with the eventual goal of a new 20-series project
within SC4/WG11 and the following milestones:

 - Jul 2004: PWI as SC4 Letter Ballot
 - Sep 2004: Release analysis of potential candidate technologies

 - Oct 2004 (Seattle SC4 meeting): Decide on scope & candidate
   technologies to include in CD document

 - Nov 2004: Release of technically complete CD document for review
 - Feb 2005: Submit for CD balloting

 - Mar 2005 (Lillehammer SC4 meeting): Hold walk through for ISO/SC4
   community

 - Jul 2005 (Spain SC4 meeting): Hold CD ballot resolution workshop
 - Sep 2005: Publish ISO TS document

The project would then continue to progress the document towards IS
with the eventual goal:

 - Nov 2007: Published ISO International Standard of document(s)





EXPRESS/STEP and OWL ------------------------------

Meeting 2004-07-08, 8-12

Will produce a W3C note to discuss the relationship between
OWL and EXPRESS.   



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