Iso/Iec Jtc 1/Sc 32 Wg2 N0701

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 WG2 N0701 Minutes OMG Liaison SC.

Attendance: Jishnu Mukerji HP, Akira Tanaka Hitachi, A. Watson OMG, Masuo Okabe UMTP/Tepco, Masaharu Obayashi UMTP/Kourikogokulta, Tom Rutt Fujitsu (co-chair), Bryan Wood Open-IT (co-chair), Toshi Kurokawa CSK, Jamie Nemiah OMG

Minutes of Montreal Liaison committee meeting were approved.

HL7 UML Liaison.

Their main concern is regarding UML 2, and its suitability for their healthcare information system modeling.

Integration consortium:

They have been provided with a template, and are expected to come back with a request for liaison.

Eclipse:

OMG is hosting meetings for Eclipse, to help develop a close liaison.

Written liaison request Liaison/04-10-01 presented by Jishnu – This time around the request for liaison is centered on the use of UML 2 for their CIM management Common information model. The current version has limited use of UML, CIM V3 is expected to use UML 2, with XMI as the interchange form. They eventually want to define a UML profile for the DMTF CIM. They want to progress beyond the simple use of class diagrams, to use behaviour and OCL features of UML 2.

They need to add operations parameters to subclasses as an extensibility feature. This is not easily supported by UML Class diagrams.

Liaison statement approved unanimously.

DMTF plans to send a person to a future OMG meeting to discuss their use of UML 2.

Standardization Planning.

UML Final Text – ISO/IEC 19501 (UML 1.4.2: pas/04-10-01) Some formatting problems were found, and the corrected text was sent about a week ago to the ISO central secretariat. This is now awaiting final publication.

CORBA Parts 1 and 2 are being prepared for PAS Submission. Jishnu has prepared conformance for parts 1 and 2, and has circulated to the CORE RTF. Pending no comments, this text can be incorporated. Part 1 and part 2 have been prepared by Linda, on the PAS document list. Both parts 1 and 2 need a minor edit to remove unnecessary references to the OMA. Chapter 1 and Chapter 6 need to be edited for this. With these changes, it will be ready for submission, after the explanatory report is written.

Bryan, with help of Jishnu took action to produce the explanatory report.

Part 3, on CORBA Components, needs to be reformatted by Frank Pilhoffer (Mercury).

ISO MOF and XMI: Ballots opened 20 June, closes 22nd Dec. Editing meeting expected to be April 2005 in Germany.

Horiuchi, the liaison between OMG and SC32, sent a report from the SC32 meeting. The editor will be assigned to Japan NB. SC32 will have editing meeting on ballots at Berlin Germany, April 2005. They request OMG experts to participate in the Meeting.

Andrew suggested that the OMG have a pre-editing meeting, to provide OMG proposed resolutions to the Ballot comments. This would be April 11. The work by the OMG experts should be started at the Burlingame meeting.

Obayashi San took action to make the NB comments available to Jamie for posting to the PAS List.

Bryan stated that the editing actions of the SC32 editor need to be coordinated with OMG editors, to have the same camera ready copy published by both OMG and ISO. The ISO editor should pass a marked up text after the editing meeting to OMG for production of the final text for publication.

Some experts (Pete Rivett, Doug Tolbert) in OMG want CWM to go forward as a PAS submission, to SC32.

Bryan suggested we put the plan for progression of CWM to SC32. Someone has to prepare a draft explanatory report on this. Doug Tolbert is in communication with Bryan.

The OMG liaisons will raise this at the next SC32 meeting. Obayashi agreed to initiate discussions at the SC32 meeting, to be held the week after the DC OMG meeting.

The committee agreed to add CWM on the workplan for PAS progression.

Liaison Reports:

SC32 ISO/IEC 19763 Framework for meta-model Interoperability

Obayashi presented a liaison report from JTC1/SC32 to OMG, provided by Horiuchi San (the liason rep).

Ontology Registration Standard – (ISO/IEC 19763-3) Working in liaison with the OMG ontology PSIG.

Open Forum for Metadata Registry and Terminology and Ontology – Two OMG experts (Sridar Iyengar and Elisa Kendall) were invited to the forum.

SC32 meeting in Berlin, in April 18-22, 2005. OMG will have a European.meeting the week before that.

The report will be put on the Liaison doc server.

Need to extend the scope of the existing Class C liaison of OMG to SC32, beyond health care. We now have to include the scope to MOF, XMI and other projects. Jamie took an action item to determine the proper form for extending the liaison.

SC07 WG19- Bryan reported that will be meeting at Malaga Spain at end of November. Use of UML for ODP is expected to move to Committee Draft Status. Other work which may start is a standard meta-model for software Development Methodologies (there is currently a new work item ballot recently closed on this subject).

UML for EDOC profile text has been requested by SC07/WG19 to be quoted for inclusion in UML for ODP specification.. OMG has permission to further distribute and modify text from the specs, without modification. OMG Mantis quotes from an OMG spec already, and could be used a pattern. Jamie stated the status of the quoted language needs to be clarified, given any progression of the quoted base standard. The issue is on the ownership and control of the language which has been quoted. Typically ISO wants ownership of the Copyright, we need to determine what the ISO position is on such a quote.

Tom stated that ISO documents usually use reference to external documents. This avoids the maintenance.

Bryan agreed that WG19 needs to determine from ISO if there are any problems with quoting, subject to appropriate acknowledgment and copyright.

Jamie summarized the action: OMG is happy to have other orgs quote from OMG standards, with proper acknowledgment and copyright by OMG. If ISO can accept this as a Quote, owned by OMG, it should be acceptable to OMG. However there need to be appropriate discussions between OMG Staff and the ISO staff. Jamie volunteered to work with the appropriate ISO person. Tom suggested the person might be Keith Brannon.