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Subject: RE: [emergency] IFSC was: RE: [emergency-msg] Any word from Jamie? Notes.
I don't think Kon's remarks were aimed at Tom, but at the previous situation, and I don't know if Tom was taking it personally or not, but I hope not. I think he would honestly like to see someone else take the chair, and I know what that is like too. I also understand the frustration and share it, and likewise think Tom's willingness to take on a task that has heretofore been both thankless and stuck in the mud is a welcome sign. I happen to think we need an IF SC, though I'm prepared to be wrong or to be voted down. But if we do carry on, we may find ourselves assembling best practices rather than drafting any new standards per se. Or, maybe we do need to nail our own stake in the sand. I just don't know.I don't think we can assess whether or not we need an IF SC until we survey that field in writing with, perhaps a table of transports and standards, and get a better idea of what is there, what isn't there yet, what might get there, etc. There are a lot of folks in the web services world who felt similar dissatisfaction recently, but most folks are continuing to just work away at it. It happens to look to me like it is poised to come together in a quite workable way. The standards arena is rife with examples of how the process can get tangled up, but before we toss in the towel, I would like to be able to survey the field and assure myself that that is the right decision. Whether or not the field is amenable to standards also can't be assessed until we look at what is there. Kon has contributed quite a bit of factual information that I, speaking only for myself, haven't really gone through yet and I would like to do that, along with posting my own evaluation of where web services is and what I think we can reasonably expect in the next year and half, which is about as far ahead as I think we can see--at least that's as far the plans I know about, extend. Now, since I won't be at the next telecon, I will do my best to get a report on web services out before then, and hopefully far enough ahead for people to at least read the subheads. Ciao, Rex At 2:20 PM -0700 8/17/04, Art Botterell wrote: >Guys, I think it would be both unproductive and unfair to turn this >into a matter of personalities. The framing of the IF SC's mission >has always been broad and, to a number of us, relatively vague. I'm >not sure anyone could have made it work either better or worse than >it has in the absence of some concrete and specific goals. > >Maybe the question we should be asking, after almost a >year-and-a-half of experiment, is whether an "Infrastructure" SC as >currently defined is actually a useful mechanism to advance the TC's >work... and if not, what other division of labor might be more >productive. We aren't required to keep the same SC structure >forever. > >In particular I'd ask whether infrastructure is an area that needs >(or will accept) standardization through the OASIS process. > >- Art > >At 2:48 PM -0700 8/17/04, Rex Brooks wrote: >>Hi Tom, >> >>I thought, and think that you are doing just fine. We already have >>some traction going with suggestions on how to proceed and avoid >>becoming an empty potential. A good chair doesn't usually make >>things happen, they help things happen.Of course there are always >>exceptions. It's easy to lose track of that, as I know from >>personal experience. >> >>Ciao, >>Rex >> >>At 2:53 PM -0400 8/17/04, Tom Merkle wrote: >>>Kon, >>>Since you seem to have an idea on where the IF SC needs to go, I invite >>>you to take my position as IF SC co-chair. I have never been associated >>>with a black-hole standards group and it is not my intention to start >>>now. >>> >>>Regards, >>> >>>Tom Merkle >>> >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Kon Wilms [mailto:kon.wilms@ndsamericas.com] >>>Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 9:21 PM >>>To: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org >>>Subject: [emergency] IFSC was: RE: [emergency-msg] Any word from Jamie? >>>Notes. >>> >>>Just to add, >>> >>>Maybe we also should discuss exactly what if anything the IFSC is going >>>to accomplish in the near-term future. Up until this point it has >>>largely been a do-nothing group (not by intentions, but by >>>non-execution). I think it is prime time to give it a good kick in the >>>ass and get some direction or abandon it altogether. >>> >>>My concern is that the longer it continues to produce nothing, the more >>>obvious it will become that it is simply another black-hole standards >>>group that cannot be relied upon to deliver any goods. >>> >>>Cheers >>>Kon >>> > >To unsubscribe from this mailing list (and be removed from the >roster of the OASIS TC), go to >http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/emergency/members/leave_workgroup.php. -- Rex Brooks GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA, 94702 USA, Earth W3Address: http://www.starbourne.com Email: rexb@starbourne.com Tel: 510-849-2309 Fax: By Request
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