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Boston meeting - June, 2018

Thank you to everyone that was able to attend.

Meeting started on time 8:50am, Wednesday June20th, 2018 and completed after noon on Thursday June 21st, 2018

Completed introductions, many existing ARTS members, with a couple attending via WebEx

Meeting attendance for both days includes:

• John Glaubitz
• Leonid Rubakhin
• Bart McGlothin
• Karen Shunk
• David Miller
• Tadashi Furuhata
• Kazuhiko Kondou
• Eiki Murakami
• Daler Rahimov
• Ed Skoviak
• Denis Kuniß (WebEx)
• Gerald Armentrout (WebEx)
• Nancy Smallwood (WebEx)
• Richard Halter (WebEx)
• Roland Zalisevskij (WebEx)

Quick overview of our open workgroup efforts for Video Analytics, UnifiedPOS, and Ontology including the status of the open RFC and RFP's.

Tadashi-san presented the draft of the UPOSv1.15 FTF charter and the electronic value reader writer updates it includes. There was discussion on the change to v1.15 from 1.14.2 as the proper fix to overcome the material specification changes that were introduced in v1.14.1. Members and the co-chairmen were accepted, and the deadlines identified for the team.

Roland presented the work that has been accomplished on the Fiscal API service, attendees provided feedback and comments.

At 1:30pm we began discussion on ontology in the context of Fiscal efforts.

Unified POS v2 Printer and Model RFP passed the LOI deadline with no submissions. the RDTF decided to extend the deadlines. the new LOI deadline is June 4th, 2018. RFP PAGE

The Video Analytics FTF carter was also reviewed, chairs and members identified and dates selected.

Interest areas discussed related to other OMG activities:
- Fresh Item Management collaboration with IBM/GS1/Wal-Mart
- Providence and Pedigree collaboration for FIM2 and Healthcare

New Efforts:
- RFC for Digital Receipts (Bart McGlothin to reach out to Starmount/infor)
- RFP for Retail Communications Service Devices (RCSD)

On Thursday we discussed collaborative writing topics for blogs and white papers. The following topics were found to be the most interesting and people volunteered to participate:

Robots in Retail (for Japanese market)
- Tadashi Furuhata
- OMG Robotics DTF may help?

EVRW in Retail – What is it? How to use this new UPOS device
- Kazuhiko Kondo

Create your own Retail Go! with ARTS
- Richard Halter
- Bart McGlothin

Block Chain for Retailers
- Katie Kean
- Dennis Gerson
- Leonid Rubakhin
- Richard Halter

Micro-services Architecture in Retail
- Daler Rahimov
- Need co-author to start

MOTIONS

Motion to extend the Unified POS v2 Printer and Model RFP deadlines in the retail plenary session- 2nd by Leonid Rubakhin, passed by voting list - unanimous.

DOCUMENTS

Document # Document Name
retail/2018-03-20 RFC FTF Charter for Video Analytics
retail/2018-03-21 RFC FTF Charter for UnifiedPOS 1.15
retail/2018-03-22 ARTS-OMG Overview and meeting minutes for Reston 2018
retail/2018-03-23 RDTF Closing Plenary Report
retail/2018-03-24 Overview presentation for Fiscal API Service RFP
retail/2018-03-25 RFC Overview for WS-POS
retail/2018-03-26 Retail Ontology session meeting minutes

Retail Week Agenda: