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Subject: Call for Participation: OASIS S-RAMP TC


To:  OASIS members & interested parties

   A new OASIS technical committee is being formed. The OASIS SOA Repository Artifact Model and Protocol (S-RAMP) Technical Committee has been proposed by the members of OASIS listed below. The TC name, statement of purpose, scope, list of deliverables, audience, and language specified in the proposal will constitute the TC's official charter. Submissions of technology for consideration by the TC, and the beginning of technical discussions, may occur no sooner than the TC's first meeting.

   The eligibility requirements for becoming a participant in the TC at the first meeting are:

   (a) you must be an employee of an OASIS member organization or an individual member of OASIS, and
   (b) you must join the Technical Committee, which members may do by using the "Join this TC" button on the TC's home page at [a].

   To be considered a voting member at the first meeting, you must:
   (a) join the Technical Committee at least 7 days prior to the first meeting (7 December 2010); and
   (b) you must attend the first meeting of the TC, either in person or via teleconference, at the time and date fixed below (14 December 2010).

Of course, participants also may join the TC at a later time. OASIS and the TC welcomes all interested parties.

   Non-OASIS members who wish to participate may contact us about joining OASIS [b]. In addition, the public may access the information resources maintained for each TC: a mail list archive, document repository and public comments facility, which will be linked from the TC's public home page at [c].

   Please feel free to forward this announcement to any other appropriate lists. OASIS is an open standards organization; we encourage your participation.

Regards,

Mary


Mary P McRae
Director, Standards Development
Technical Committee Administrator
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org 
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[a] [a] http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/s-ramp
[b] See http://www.oasis-open.org/join/
[c] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=s-ramp

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
OASIS SOA Repository Artifact Model and Protocol (S-RAMP) TC


(1)(a) The Name of the TC:
OASIS SOA Repository Artifact Model and Protocol (S-RAMP) Technical Committee

(1)(b) A statement of purpose, including a definition of the problem to be solved:

In working on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), organizations find it useful to create a focal point for access to key artifacts.  These key artifacts include data model descriptions such as XML Schema, service interface descriptions such as WSDL, and service composition descriptions (SCA Assembly), as well as other kinds of documents.  This focal point for access, hereafter referred to as an SOA repository, facilitates various activities across the life cycle of an SOA artifact, including the design, assembly, quality assurance, deployment and runtime operation of SOA-based applications and business processes.  The lack of a standardized information model and interaction protocol for artifacts and their metadata residing in an SOA repository, means that customers and vendors must build customized access for each different vendor's SOA repository product.  This reduces choice and flexibility and adds costs for customers when choosing tools.

The purpose of the SOA Repository Artifact Model and Protocol (S-RAMP) TC is to define a common data model for SOA repositories as well as an interaction protocol to facilitate the use of common tooling and sharing of data.  The TC will define an ATOM binding which documents the syntax for interaction with a compliant repository for create, read, update, delete and query operations.  This approach to providing flexible access to SOA artifacts will facilitate interoperability and provide customers with more choices of tools that can be used to interoperate with any S-RAMP-compliant SOA repository implementation.

This TC will not prescribe how specific features should be implemented within those SOA Repositories and tooling.  This TC is intended to define a generic set of capabilities provided by an SOA Repository and associated SOA Repository tooling.


(1)(c) The scope of the work of the TC:

The TC will accept as input Version 1.0 of the S-RAMP specification [1] as published by HP, IBM, Software AG and TIBCO. The specification is divided into two logical modules, The Foundation and The Atom Binding.  Documents and XML Schemas are located at
http://s-ramp.org/downloads.html. The TC will also accept as input a list of issues and recommended changes from the authoring companies.

Changes to the input documents or other contributions will be accepted for consideration without any prejudice or restrictions and evaluated based on technical merit in so far as they conform to this charter.

The scope of the TC's first set of deliverables includes further refinement of the Input Documents, addressing issues raised by authoring companies, incorporating appropriate additional contributions to the TC, and addressing issues raised in the TC itself. The output of the TC is the standardization of these documents extension points, conformance targets, capabilities and concepts therein.  The extensibility, capabilities and concepts are described below.

Extensibility:
1. A core model, described using XML Schema with extension points; the extension points will allow to extend and reuse the core model.
2. Any binding(s) defined should use the capabilities mentioned below that facilitate some or all CRUD operations on the core model.  The binding(s) will also be flexible enough to be extended to solve implementation specific issues.

Capabilities:
1. Create, Read, Update and Delete operations for the concepts defined below in the concepts section.
2. Query of repository information based upon the repository's content and metadata, including, but not limited to XPath.
3. Rendering of the Artifact Type models in a form appropriate to a binding.
4. Declaring the S-RAMP specific extensions to the Atom Publishing Protocol.  This encompasses, but is not limited to, details documented in the input document describing the Atom binding.  Specifically, details about the addition, mutation, query, and deletion of artifacts are defined here.
5. The S-RAMP Atom Binding will facilitate both coarse-grained and fine-grained interactions with the artifact type models described below. The coarse-grained interaction describes how to perform CRUD operations on an S-RAMP artifact via HTTP methods, how to create multiple artifacts via HTTP Batch, and how to retrieve artifacts via HTTP GET. The fine-grained interaction provides a hierarchical representation for a given class of metadata (relationships, properties, or classifications), and provides CRUD operations for these sections using HTTP.
6. Query of S-RAMP Artifacts and associated metadata via ATOM defined in the S-RAMP Atom Binding. This includes use of inline queries via HTTP GET/POST as well as use of stored queries.

Concepts:
1. Document Artifact - These are artifacts which correspond to physical documents such as WSDL Documents, XML Documents, XSD Documents and Policy Documents which have special support in S-RAMP, however any document type can be placed in the repository.
2. Service Implementation Model - These are special S-RAMP-defined artifacts which provide a representation of the service implementation layer associated with the SOA Model.
3. Derived Artifact - These are artifacts which are dynamically instantiated as a consequence of publishing a document instance whose type is one that is supported with a Derived Model - Derived Artifacts provide a metamodel of the content components of a particular Document Artifact.  They cannot be created or deleted directly, however they can be queried and relationships to them from other artifacts can be established. Derived Artifact models include: Policy Model, XSD Model, WSDL Model and SOAP/WSDL Model.
4. SOA Model - These artifacts provide a conceptual representation of an SOA environment.  A subset of The Open Group's SOA Ontology[2] is used as the basis for the definition of these artifacts.
5. User Defined Artifact - These are artifacts defined by the user of the S-RAMP specification and as such are out of scope.  However, the Artifact Type models listed above must be extensible to provide for user-defined artifacts.
6. Metadata, including relationships (direct associations between artifact instances), properties (named attributes associated with an artifact instance), and classifications (artifact decorations which reference a classification system).

The following is a non-exhaustive list of capabilities, bindings and data models that may  be addressed in the first deliverable, or at a subsequent time, depending on schedule constraints. Areas where the TC work might extend beyond the scope of the contributed documents include:
* Alternate means of query beyond XPath 1.0, such as XPath 2.0 and XQuery.
* A core model based on RDF and OWL.
* Additional metadata, including properties, relationships, and classifications.
* Additional concepts deemed essential for supporting concepts already identified, or that are relevant to the role of an SOA Repository.
* Federation of data across multiple repositories.
* Additional bindings and data models, including REST, Web Services, BPEL, SCA, BPMN.

If some function, mechanism or feature is not included in the content above, it will be deemed to be out of scope.

Maintenance

Once the TC has completed work on a deliverable and it has become an OASIS Standard, the TC will enter "maintenance mode" for the deliverable.

The purpose of maintenance mode is to provide minor revisions to previously adopted deliverables to clarify ambiguities, inconsistencies and obvious errors. Maintenance mode is not intended to enhance a deliverable or extend its functionality.

The TC will collect issues raised against the deliverables and periodically process those issues. Issues that request or require new or enhanced functionality shall be marked as enhancement requests and set aside. Issues that result in the clarification or correction of the deliverables shall be processed. The TC shall maintain a list of these adopted clarifications and shall periodically create a new minor revision of the deliverables including these updates. Periodically, but at least once a year, the TC shall produce and vote upon a new minor revision of the deliverables.


(1)(d) A list of deliverables, with projected completion dates:
The TC has the following set of deliverables:
* S-RAMP Foundation Document specification and associated XML Schema and/or RDF/OWL descriptions
* S-RAMP Atom Binding Document specification and associated XML Schema and/or RDF/OWL descriptions
These two deliverables will be available at the end of 2011.


(1)(e) IPR Mode
The TC shall operate under RF on Limited Terms.


(1)(f) Anticipated Audience
The primary audience for the final output of this TC includes SOA Repository architects, implementers and tooling vendors.


(1)(g) Language
The TC will use English as the language for conducting its operations.


(2) Non-normative information regarding the startup of the TC:

(2)(a) Identification of similar or applicable work that is being done in other OASIS TCs or by other organizations:
* UDDI OASIS Standard. UDDI describes how to store and access service metadata in a Service Registry. It does not provide any protocol support for storage and access of physical documents.  The SOA Repository specification is focused on publication and query of documents based upon their content and metadata.
* Reusable Asset Specification (RAS). RAS files include any work products from the software development life cycle, such as requirements, documents, models, source code files, deployment descriptions, test cases or scripts.
* The following are listed as they are specifications/standards that S-RAMP is dependent upon: (1) SOA Ontology at The Open Group; (2) Atom Syndication Format Standard at IETF; (3) Atom Publishing Protocol Standard at IETF.

(2)(b) The date, time, and location of the first meeting, whether it will be held in person or by phone, and who will sponsor this first meeting.
The first TC meeting will be a face-to-face meeting on December 14, 2010 to be held at TIBCO Software, Palo Alto, CA.


(2)(c) The projected on-going meeting schedule for the year following the formation of the TC:
The S-RAMP TC will meet by telephone every other week.  The time and date of the phone calls will be confirmed at the first TC meeting.  Each meeting will last no more than two hours.  The S-RAMP TC will also hold face-to-face meetings periodically.  The date, time and place of the face-to-face meetings will be determined by the S-RAMP TC.

(2)(d) The names, electronic mail addresses, and membership affiliations of at least Minimum Membership who support this proposal and are committed to the Charter and projected meeting schedule.

Chris Peltz, peltz@hp.com, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Dan Enache, denache@tibco.com, TIBCO Software Inc
Diane Jordan, drj@us.ibm.com, IBM
Eric Johnson, eric@tibco.com, TIBCO Software Inc
Gary Woods, Gary.Woods@SoftwareAG.com, Software AG
John Colgrave, colgrave@uk.ibm.com, IBM
John Favazza, john.favazza@weblayers.com, WebLayers
Jonathan Marsh, jonathan@wso2.com , WSO2
Kurt Stam, kstam@redhat.com, Red Hat
Luc Clement, luc.clement@activevos.com, Active Endpoints
Mark Little, mlittle@redhat.com, Red Hat
Martin Smithson, msmiths@uk.ibm.com, IBM
Michael Rowley, michael.rowley@activevos.com, Active Endpoints
Miroslav Novak, miroslav.novak@hp.com, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Paul Fremantle, paul@wso2.com, WSO2
Prasad Yendluri, Prasad.Yendluri@softwareag.com, Software AG
Radek Pospisil, radek.pospisil@hp.com, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Randall Hauch, rhauch@redhat.com, Red Hat
Steve Fanshier, Steve.Fanshier@SoftwareAG.com, Software AG
Vince Brunssen, brunssen@us.ibm.com, IBM


(2)(e) For each OASIS Organizational Member listed in (2)(d), the name, electronic mail address, membership affiliation, and statement of support for the proposed Charter from the Primary Representative.

David Burke, dburke@tibco.com, TIBCO Software Inc
"As TIBCO Software Inc.’s Primary Representative to OASIS, I, David Burke (dburke@tibco.com) fully support the formation and activities of the S-RAMP TC under the proposed charter."

Joel Fleck, joel.fleck@hp.com, Hewlett-Packard Co.
"Joel Fleck, (joel.fleck@hp.com), as Hewlett-Packard's Primary Representative to OASIS, supports the proposed S-RAMP Charter."

Dave Ings, ings@ca.ibm.com, IBM
"As the Primary Representative to OASIS of IBM, I approve the S-RAMP Charter."

John Favazza, john.favazza@weblayers.com, WebLayers
"As the primary representative from WebLayers I fully support the S-RAMP charter proposal."

Paul Fremantle, paul@wso2.com, WSO2
"I, Paul Fremantle, as WSO2's primary representative to OASIS, fully support the proposed S-RAMP charter."

Mark Little, mlittle@redhat.com, Red Hat
"As Red Hat's Primary Representative to OASIS, I, Mark Little (mlittle@redhat.com) fully support the formation and activities of the S-RAMP TC under the proposed charter."

Prasad Yendhuri, Prasad.Yendluri@softwareag.com, Software AG
"As OASIS Primary Representative for Software AG, I (Prasad.Yendlkuri@software.com) certify that Software AG fully supports the formation and activities of the S-RAMP TC under the proposed charter and agrees to be a co-proposer of the TC."

Chris Keller, chris.keller@activevos.com, Active Endpoints, Inc.
"As Active Endpoints, Inc.’s Primary Representative to OASIS, I, Christopher Keller (chris.keller@activevos.com) support the formation and activities of the S-RAMP TC under the proposed charter."

(2)(f) The name of the Convener who must be an Eligible Person.
Chris Peltz, Hewlett-Packard Co.

(2)(g) The name of the Member Section with which the TC intends to affiliate
None

(2)(h) Optionally, a list of contributions of existing technical work that the proposers anticipate will be made to this TC.
SOA Repository Artifact Model and Protocol - The Foundation Document v1.0 and corresponding XML Schema files.
SOA Repository Artifact Model and Protocol - The Atom Binding Document v1.0 and corresponding XML Schema files.
(Available at: http://s-ramp.org/downloads.html)

(2)(h) Optionally, a draft Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document regarding the planned scope of the TC, for posting on the TC's website.
Not supplied.

(2)(i) Optionally, a proposed working title and acronym for the specification(s) to be developed by the TC.
SOA Repository Artifact Model and Protocol Standard










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