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UBL V2.3 CS02 has been presented to the membership by the OASIS Universal Business Language TC [1] as a candidate for OASIS Standard. Do you consent or object to its approval as an OASIS Standard?

UBL is the leading electronic interchange format for business documents. It is designed to operate within a standard business framework such as ISO/IEC 15000 (ebXML) to provide a complete, standards-based infrastructure that can extend the benefits of existing EDI systems to businesses of all sizes.

The European Commission has declared UBL officially eligible for referencing in tenders from public administrations, and in 2015 UBL was approved as ISO/IEC 19845:2015.

Specifically, UBL provides:

- A suite of structured business objects and their associated semantics expressed as reusable data components and common business documents.
- A library of schemas for reusable data components such as Address, Item, and Payment, the common data elements of everyday business documents.
- A set of schemas for common business documents such as Order, Despatch Advice, and Invoice that are constructed from the UBL library components and can be used in generic procurement and transportation contexts.

Version 2.3 is a minor revision to v2.2 that preserves backwards compatibility with previous v2.# versions. It adds new document types, bringing the total number of UBL business documents to 91. Note that Committee Specification 02 was produced to correct non-material changes discovered during the 60-day public review. This was done in accordance with the procedures outlined in section 2.8.2 of the TC Process (https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process-2017-05-26/#OSpublicRev).

The TC has received 4 Statements of Use from IBM, ClearView Trade, the Swedish Procurement Agency, and Philip Helger [2].

This is a call to the Organizational Members of OASIS to consent or object to this approval. You are welcome to register your consent explicitly on the ballot; however your consent is assumed unless you register an objection [3]. To register an objection, you must:

1. Indicate your objection on this ballot, and

2. Provide a reason for your objection and/or a proposed remedy to the TC.

You may provide the reason in the comment box or by email to the Technical Committee on its comment mailing list or, if you are a member of the TC, to the TC's mailing list [4]. If you provide your reason by email, please indicate in the subject line that this is in regard to the Call for Consent. Note that failing to provide a reason and/or remedy may result in an objection being deemed invalid.

URIs

The Committee Specification and associated artifacts are available here:

Universal Business Language Version 2.3
Committee Specification 02
25 May 2021

HTML:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs02-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3.html

PDF:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs02-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3.pdf

Editable source:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs02-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3.xml

Code lists for constraint validation:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs02-UBL-2.3/cl/

Context/value Association files for constraint validation:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs02-UBL-2.3/cva/

Document models of information bundles:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs02-UBL-2.3/mod/

Default validation test environment:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs02-UBL-2.3/val/

XML examples:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs02-UBL-2.3/xml/

Annotated XSD schemas:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs02-UBL-2.3/xsd/

Runtime XSD schemas:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs02-UBL-2.3/xsdrt/

For your convenience, a complete package is available as a ZIP archive file here:

https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs02-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3.zip

Please contact OASIS TC Administration at tc-admin@lists.oasis-open.org with any questions you may have about this ballot.

--- Additional information ---

[1] OASIS Universal Business Language TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ubl/

[2] Statements of use

- IBM
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/202102/msg00013.html

- ClearView Trade
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/202102/msg00014.html

- Swedish Procurement Agency
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/202102/msg00017.html

- Philip Helger
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/202102/msg00021.html

[3] https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process-2017-05-26#OScallForConsent

[4] Comments may be submitted to the TC through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility as explained in the instructions located at https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=ubl

Comments submitted to the TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-comment/

Members of the TC should send comments directly to ubl@lists.oasis-open.org.