Minutes from PLCS Teleconference Meeting 49 21 January 2010

-- Mr. Christopher Kreiler

PLCS Meeting 49 Teleconference has been modified by Mr. Christopher Kreiler

Date: Thursday, 21 January 2010 Time: 03:00pm - 04:30pm GMT

Event Description: Meeting 49 Teleconference 21 January 2010 - 1600 CET, 1500 UK, 1500 GMT, 1000
US Eastern, and 0700 US Pacific Time - for maximum 90 minutes.

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Agenda: Objective

The principal objectives of this session are to update the TC members on
progress with the active tasks in Phase 2 of the DEX activity, and for the TC
members to report on the continuing efforts to identify new resources to address
the unassigned tasks. Members are invited to highlight new DEX development
projects and report on implementation progress.

1. Welcome by Chair

2. Roll call

3. Report of Technical Oversight Group (Tor Arne Irgens) Action item 46/1: Provide Tor Arne with any inputs to expand the PLCS Activity
Model (All)

4. Ballot comment resolution of first DEX package (Scott Motquin) Aviation Maintenance DEX Task DEX Action item 41/3: CORE Team members are requested to work with Scott Motquinn
and Trine Hansen to resolve comments (CORE Team) Proposal for release of second committee draft Requires Full Majority vote of TC to approve draft Requires Full Majority vote of TC to initiate 15 day public review "Full Majority Vote" is a TC vote in which more than 50% (more than half) of
the Voting Members vote "yes", regardless of the number of Voting Members
present in the meeting.

5. Reference data (Mats Nilsson) Report of activities on PLCS Reference Data Action item 41/4: Reference data library project review ballot comments for
project applicability and send out historical documents for review and comment
(Mats Nilsson)

6. AP239 ed 2 (Phil Rutland / Rob Bodington) Report of activities on PLCS AP 239 ed 2 Resources for supporting the ballot/resolution activities

7. Report on second phase (Howard Mason) Review of resource commitments See revised spreadsheet for current breakdown of tasks and commitments.
(Phase_II_v8.xls)
(http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/plcs/download.php/29624/Phase_II_v8.xls) Action item 46/2: Provide inputs and estimates for the resource spreadsheet
including resolution of ballot comments, additional one-off costs, development
of reference data, capabilities, and templates, and any additional items for
completion of core Tasks (CORE Team) Resource spreadsheet can be found at
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/plcs/download.php/34634/TC%20core%20activities%20with%20time%20and%20costs_Rev2_2009-10-12.xls Action item 47/1: Finish TC core activities with time and costs spreadsheet to
include DEX development costs (Chris Kreiler / Rob Bodington) Members were invited to report on any new resources that can be applied to the
core project, and to the completion of the first OASIS DEXs, and also to
indicate any other DEX developments that were mature enough to begin to plan
publication.

Action item 48/1: Explore opportunity for ASD DEXes to be published by OASIS and
referenced from S3000L (Leif Gyllstrom) Implementers Forum Action item 37/2: Pull together the revised proposal for the implementers forum
for discussion for the next telecom. (transferred to Jim Colson) Jim Colson to report on progress with revised proposal

New DEX proposals (Standing Action item 37/5) Members were invited to present information on any new DEX developments they are
undertaking, especially any that would become ready in the first quarter of
2010.

TDP proposal update (N.Figay) Action item 41/2: Members interested in developing the Airbus TDP DEX are
requested to contact Melanie Baudisch at EADS MAS +49 84 59 81 78 943
mela...@eads.com (All)

8. PLCS Web Services Report (Rob Bodington) Publication of PLCS Web Services as an OASIS standard - review of new draft Action item 27/4: Establish contact with OASIS Web Services TC and make PLCS Web
Services visible within OASIS (Howard Mason, Rob Bodington, and Nigel Shaw) Action item 27/5: Review and comment on the level of granularity for PLCS Web
Services (All) Action item 27/6: Determine publication method for PLCS Web Services (Chair, Rob
Bodington) Action item 42/2: Check on next release date for PLCS Web Services (Nigel Shaw)

9. Feedback from Implementations Action item 33/2: Members are requested to develop a one-page information sheet
on their implementation projects for posting on the OASIS PLCS TC website (All) Members are invited to present recent pilot activities, focusing on feedback on
PLCS success stories, tangible business benefits, issues and requirements o Norwegian Deployment

o Swedish activities

o UKMoD LCIA and CBIS

o LOGSA

o AIA Engineering Data Interoperability Project

o ASD - AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe

10. Promotional activities Action item 42/4: Send list of events and dates to Secretariat for posting on
OASIS website. (All) Outreach o Future events 2010-01-19/20 NATO Lifecycle Management 2010-06-06/11 SC 4 Plenary Meeting, Bethlehem, PA, USA

o Recent past events 2009-11-08/13 SC 4 58th Plenary meeting in Rotterdam 2009-11-18/19 PDT Europe

Action item 48/2: Send links to Gartner presentations at PDT Europe and
distribute/post on OASIS PLCS TC webpage (Chris Kreiler / Rob Bodington)

o www.et.gov - (waiting DEX availability) Action 19/8: Nigel Shaw to look into the types of XML schemas being covered by
et.gov, and provide feedback on whether the OASIS PLCS TC should offer material
to et.gov. (Nigel Shaw) Action 22/12: Recheck to see if posting material and a link to the PLCS ePortal
would be beneficial. (Nigel Shaw)

o Presentations and General Information folder

Marketing Links Action 15/20: Chair (Howard Mason) to check with OASIS, James Clark, to see if
list of organizations that provide PLCS services can be done

11. Liaisons SC4 (Tim King)

Other OASIS TCs o Codelist (Nigel Shaw) Action 26/1: Continue to track activities of OASIS Codelist TC for impact on
reference data requirements (Nigel Shaw)

ASD (Carl Wilen/Howard Mason)

POSC/CAESAR (Nils Sandsmark)

GEIA (Jim Colson)

Life Cycle Information Management AC/327 (Tor Arne Irgens)

MoU between PLCS, SCORM, and S1000D

12. OASIS Administration Web site

13. Future meeting schedule, hosts

14. Any Other Business

Minutes: OASIS Product Life Cycle Support Technical Committee

Meeting 49 Teleconference 21 January 2010 - 1600 CET, 1500 UK, 1500 GMT, 1000
US Eastern, and 0700 US Pacific Time - for maximum 90 minutes.

Objective

The principal objectives of this session were to update the TC members on
progress with the active tasks in Phase 2 of the DEX activity, and for the TC
members to report on the continuing efforts to identify new resources to address
the unassigned tasks. Members were invited to highlight new DEX development
projects and report on implementation progress.

1. Welcome by Chair  Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting

2. Roll call  See attendance_plcs_Mtg49_2010-01-21.xls  The meeting did achieve a quorum

Meeting Statistics Quorum rule 51% of voting members Achieved quorum true Counts toward voter eligibility true Individual Attendance Members: 16 of 110 (14%) Voting Members: 11 of 21 (52%) (used for quorum calculation) Company Attendance Companies: 10 of 26 (38%) Voting Companies: 8 of 12 (66%)

Meeting Attendees Name Company Status Sean Barker BAE SYSTEMS plc Group Member Howard Mason BAE SYSTEMS plc Group Member Haakon Knudsen Det Norske Veritas (DNV)* Group Member Fredrik Larsen Det Norske Veritas (DNV)* Group Member Jochen Haenisch Jotne EPM Technology* Group Member Jim Martin Jotne EPM Technology* Tim Turner LSC Group Ltd* Group Member Colin Tweedie LSC Group Ltd* Group Member Ron Kolakowski ManTech Enterprise Integration Center (e-IC)* Group Member Christopher Kreiler ManTech Enterprise Integration Center (e-IC)* Group Member Leif Gyllstrom Saab AB Group Member David McCoy The Boeing Company* Group Member Phil Rutland UK Ministry of Defence Technical Information* Group Member Jerry Smith US Department of Defense (DoD)* Group Member James Colson USAMC Logistics Support Activity* Group Member Scot Motquin USAMC Logistics Support Activity* Group Member John Peer USAMC Logistics Support Activity* Group Member

3. Report of Technical Oversight Group (Tor Arne Irgens) Action item 46/1: Provide Tor Arne with any inputs to expand the PLCS Activity
Model (All)  No report. Tor Arne was unable to attend the meeting

4. Ballot comment resolution of first DEX package (Scott Motquin) Aviation Maintenance DEX Task DEX Action item 41/3: CORE Team members are requested to work with Scott Motquin and
Trine Hansen to resolve comments (CORE Team)  Not much progress on Aviation Maintenance DEX  Task DEX o LSC addressing ballot comments o Not addressing Aviation DEX o Resolution spreadsheet on OASIS website o Planned completion end of February 2010 o Plan for TC review on 11 Feb. Text will be on DEXLib for committee draft
review o No separate publication until 25 Feb (version 2) o 95 issues against Task DEX o 55 issues against infrastructure o Number of issues against "Help" o Working with Leif Gyllstrom o 17 issues left o 6 issues with templates o Membership comment before CD is released from TC for OASIS public
review/ballot o UK MoD only funding to CD stage. No funding for follow-on. o The TC expresses its thanks to the UK MoD for making this possible  Teleconference scheduled for 2010-02-25 to vote on Task DEX release  Secretariat to clean list of voting members based on OASIS voting rules  ASD DEXs still need work before submitting for ballot  Should be in good state by end of February  ASD DEXs are on DEXLib  Aviation Maintenance DEX part of ASD 5000F

Proposal for release of second committee draft Requires Full Majority vote of TC to approve draft Requires Full Majority vote of TC to initiate 15 day public review "Full Majority Vote" is a TC vote in which more than 50% (more than half) of
the Voting Members vote "yes", regardless of the number of Voting Members
present in the meeting.

Action item 49/1: Clean list of voting members based on OASIS voting rules
(Secretariat / Chair)

5. Reference data (Mats Nilsson) Report of activities on PLCS Reference Data Action item 41/4: Reference data library project review ballot comments for
project applicability and send out historical documents for review and comment
(Mats Nilsson)  Mats Nilsson unable to attend meeting.  Tim Turner, LSC, reported the following: o A number of things happening with reference data since last ballot o Trying to complete reference data for vote with Task DEX o Just trying for minimum amount of ref data o Will need additional ref data for other DEXs o Need "units" reference data, i.e. kg, meters, etc.  Howard Mason reported that the first meeting of the OASIS Quantities and Units
of Measure Ontology Standard (QUOMOS) TC will be by teleconference this
afternoon.

6. AP239 ed 2 (Phil Rutland / Rob Bodington) Report of activities on PLCS AP 239 ed 2 Resources for supporting the ballot/resolution activities  Rob Bodington unable to attend meeting. Report provided by Phil Rutland  AP239 ed2 is now completed and is in the process of being submitted to the
SC4/WG3 convener for convener review.  We are still waiting on ISO to process the modules from AP239 ed2 CD.  The modules for AP239 ed2 DIS, which supersedes AP239 ed2 CD are complete and
also in the process of being submitted to the convener for convener review prior
to being submitted to the Module validation team for approval  Includes Risk Module  Some of the modules in AP239 ed1 have been split into separate modules

7. Report on second phase (Howard Mason) Review of resource commitments See revised spreadsheet for current breakdown of tasks and commitments.
(Phase_II_v8.xls)
(http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/plcs/download.php/29624/Phase_II_v8.xls) Action item 46/2: Provide inputs and estimates for the resource spreadsheet
including resolution of ballot comments, additional one-off costs, development
of reference data, capabilities, and templates, and any additional items for
completion of core Tasks (CORE Team) Resource spreadsheet can be found at
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/plcs/download.php/34634/TC%20core%20activities%20with%20time%20and%20costs_Rev2_2009-10-12.xls Action item 47/1: Finish TC core activities with time and costs spreadsheet to
include DEX development costs (Chris Kreiler / Rob Bodington) Members were invited to report on any new resources that can be applied to the
core project, and to the completion of the first OASIS DEXs, and also to
indicate any other DEX developments that were mature enough to begin to plan
publication.  No new resources  Potential from new maintenance DEX and ASD DEX publication

Action item 48/1: Explore opportunity for ASD DEXes to be published by OASIS and
referenced from S3000L (Leif Gyllstrom) Implementers Forum Action item 37/2: Pull together the revised proposal for the implementers forum
for discussion for the next telecom. (transferred to Jim Colson) Jim Colson to report on progress with revised proposal  Eurostep interested in participating in Implementer's Forum  Jim Colson talked with PDES, Inc. who did CAX IF. Good discussion  PDES submitted proposal, but had some proprietary information so can't
distribute for public review  PDES, Inc may be willing to run it for us.  Want to make sure implementer's forum is open and accessible to all  Need to work out specifics on how implementer's forum will operate

Action item 49/2: Talk with PDES, Inc. to see if proposal can be publicly
reviewed by PLCS TC members (Howard Mason)

New DEX proposals (Standing Action item 37/5) Members were invited to present information on any new DEX developments they are
undertaking, especially any that would become ready in the first quarter of
2010.  No new DEX proposals.

TDP proposal update (N.Figay) Action item 41/2: Members interested in developing the Airbus TDP DEX are
requested to contact Melanie Baudisch at EADS MAS +49 84 59 81 78 943
mela...@eads.com (All)  Still in development with resourcing issues.

8. PLCS Web Services Report (Rob Bodington) Publication of PLCS Web Services as an OASIS standard - review of new draft Action item 27/4: Establish contact with OASIS Web Services TC and make PLCS Web
Services visible within OASIS (Howard Mason, Rob Bodington, and Nigel Shaw) Action item 27/5: Review and comment on the level of granularity for PLCS Web
Services (All) Action item 27/6: Determine publication method for PLCS Web Services (Chair, Rob
Bodington) Action item 42/2: Check on next release date for PLCS Web Services (Nigel Shaw)  No report. Rob Bodington unable to attend meeting.

9. Feedback from Implementations Action item 33/2: Members are requested to develop a one-page information sheet
on their implementation projects for posting on the OASIS PLCS TC website (All) Members are invited to present recent pilot activities, focusing on feedback on
PLCS success stories, tangible business benefits, issues and requirements o Norwegian Deployment

 No report.

o Swedish activities

 No additional implementations.  Looking at PLCS from a training perspective (SCORM activity).

o UKMoD LCIA and CBIS

 No changes  LCIA moving into a Community of Interest (COI) that will meet next week.

o LOGSA

 Attended meeting with NATO NAMSA (host for S2000M)  S2000M is looking at establishing a data model and data exchange sets for its
Chapter 1 on Initial Provisioning using PLCS  Have set up task force. PLCS will meet their needs.  This is great news to PLCS!  LOGSA working to create an S2000M Chapter 1 data model

o AIA Engineering Data Interoperability Project

 ASD and AIA have agreement on ASD S1000D that will be expanded to all the ASD
specifications  Number of developments to support long-term data retention

o ASD - AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe

 ASD and AIA have agreement on ASD S1000D that will be expanded to all the ASD
specifications  Continue work on logistics specifications  Proposal to develop AP242 take AP203ed2, AP239, and AP214. Will cover
aerospace, defence and automotive requirements.

10. Promotional activities Action item 42/4: Send list of events and dates to Secretariat for posting on
OASIS website. (All) Outreach o Future events 2010-06-06/11 59th SC 4 Plenary Meeting, Bethlehem, PA, USA 2010-05-18/20 12th NASA-ESA Workshop on Product Data Exchange, Oslo, Norway 2010-10-17/22 60th SC 4 Plenary Meeting, Vico Equense, Italy

o Recent past events 2010-01-19/20 NATO Lifecycle Management

Action item 48/2: Send links to Gartner presentations at PDT Europe and
distribute/post on OASIS PLCS TC webpage (Chris Kreiler / Rob
Bodington)(complete)  Secretariat completed Action Item 48/2.

o www.et.gov - (waiting DEX availability) Action 19/8: Nigel Shaw to look into the types of XML schemas being covered by
et.gov, and provide feedback on whether the OASIS PLCS TC should offer material
to et.gov. (Nigel Shaw) Action 22/12: Recheck to see if posting material and a link to the PLCS ePortal
would be beneficial. (Nigel Shaw)  No report.

o Presentations and General Information folder

Marketing Links Action 15/20: Chair (Howard Mason) to check with OASIS, James Clark, to see if
list of organizations that provide PLCS services can be done  No report.

11. Liaisons SC4 (Tim King)

 No report.

Other OASIS TCs o Codelist (Nigel Shaw) Action 26/1: Continue to track activities of OASIS Codelist TC for impact on
reference data requirements (Nigel Shaw)

 No report.

ASD (Carl Wilen/Howard Mason)

 No report.

POSC/CAESAR (Nils Sandsmark)

 No report.

GEIA (Jim Colson)

 No report.

Life Cycle Information Management AC/327 (Tor Arne Irgens)

 No report.

MoU between PLCS, SCORM, and S1000D

 No report.

12. OASIS Administration Web site  No report.

13. Future meeting schedule, hosts

 PLCS TC Meeting 50 Teleconference 1600 CET, 1500 UK, 1500 GMT, 1000 US
Eastern, and 0700 US Pacific Time - for maximum 90 minutes. Purpose of the
meeting will be to vote on the Task DEX committee draft.

14. Any Other Business

 Note change of dates for the 2010 SC4 meetings. o 2010-06-07/11 Bethlehem, PA, USA o 2010-10-17/22 Vico Equense, Italy

15. Open Action Items Meeting Date and Number Action Item # Action Item Responsibility Closed 14 Apr 2005 15 20 Chair(Howard Mason) to check with OASIS, James Clark, to see
if list of organizations that provide PLCS services can be done Howard Mason
OPEN

29 Sep 2005 19 8 Nigel Shaw to look into the types of XML schemas being covered
by et.gov, and given the changing state of P28e2, provide feedback on whether
the OASIS PLCS TC should offer material to et.gov. Nigel Shaw Awaiting first DEX

10 Jan 2006 22 12 Recheck to see if posting material and a link to the PLCS
ePortal would be beneficial Nigel Shaw Awaiting first DEX

7 Sep 2006 26 1 Continue to track activities of OASIS Codelist TC for impact on
reference data requirements Nigel Shaw OPEN

31 Oct 2006 27 4 Establish contact with OASIS Web Services TC and make PLCS Web
Services visible within OASIS Howard Mason Rob Bodington Nigel Shaw OPEN 31 Oct 2006 27 5 Review and comment on the level of granularity for PLCS Web
Services All OPEN 31 Oct 2006 27 6 Determine publication method for PLCS Web Services Howard Mason Rob Bodington OPEN

30 Aug 2007 33 2 Members are requested to develop a one-page information sheet
on their implementation projects for posting on the OASIS PLCS TC website All
STANDING ACTION

11 Mar 2008 37 2 Pull together the revised proposal for the implementers forum
for discussion for the next telecom. Jim Colson OPEN 11 Mar 2008 37 5 Document DEX development proposals All STANDING ACTION

23 Oct 2008 41 2 Members interested in developing the Airbus TDP DEX are
requested to contact Melanie Baudisch at EADS MAS +49 84 59 81 78 943
mela...@eads.com All OPEN 23 Oct 2008 41 3 CORE Team members are requested to work with Bryant Allen and
Trine Hansen to resolve comments CORE Team OPEN 23 Oct 2008 41 4 Reference data library project review ballot comments for
project applicability and send out historical documents for review and comment
Mats Nilsson OPEN

15 Dec 2008 42 2 Check on next release date for PLCS Web Services Nigel Shaw
OPEN 15 Dec 2008 42 4 Send list of events and dates to Secretariat for posting on
OASIS website. All STANDING ACTION

6 Apr 2009 44 1 TOG to list competencies for TOG membership TOG OPEN

18 Sep 2009 46 1 Provide Tor Arne with any inputs to expand the PLCS Activity
Model All OPEN 18 Sep 2009 46 2 Provide inputs and estimates for the resource spreadsheet
including resolution of ballot comments, additional one-off costs, development
of reference data, capabilities, and templates, and any additional items for
completion of CORE Tasks CORE Team OPEN

20 Oct 2009 47 1 Finish TC core activities with time and costs spreadsheet to
include DEX development costs Chris Kreiler Rob Bodington OPEN

25 Nov 2009 48 1 Explore opportunity for ASD DEXes to be published by OASIS and
referenced from S3000L (Leif Gyllstrom) Leif Gyllstrom OPEN 25 Nov 2009 48 2 Send links to Gartner presentations at PDT Europe and
distribute/post on OASIS PLCS TC webpage Rob Bodington Chris Kreiler Complete

21 Jan 2010 49 1 Clean list of voting members based on OASIS voting rules
(Secretariat / Chair OPEN 21 Jan 2010 49 2 Talk with PDES, Inc. to see if proposal can be publicly
reviewed by PLCS TC members Howard Mason OPEN

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