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Subject: RE: anything interesting at yesterday IEEE call?
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Ken, Yes…a few things. Administrivia: the working group will proceed with the mail-list infrastructure provided by Sino Nomina, as the IEEE system is not ready for prime time (it seems we were guinea pigs for new functionality that
has failed so far to deliver) – se we stick to the
ieee-p1723-discuss@sinenomine.net list. Open Group shared publicly available links to their RA work; The formal PAR submission is still awaiting approval by IEEE authorities. On the substance, first meeting where we started to get to the meat of the matter, starting – as previously agreed – with the Open Group RA document. We went through sections 1 to 4 of the TOG SOA RA and the group is invited, via e-mail discussion, to raise issues on sections 1 through 8 thru to end of June. We will use the IEEE comments and issues worksheet
template that was sent to the list yesterday. There was a discussion about whether to take a particular architecture as a ‘benchmark use case’ that could be compared against both the TOG RA and OASIS RM and RAF. Heather Kreger jumped in with the suggestion
of using the Trade 3 test suite from IBM. I don’t know this product so couldn’t comment. Whatever we do choose, should be applicable to both TOG and OASIS work though. On a separate but related point – I was finally added to the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC38 WG2 mailing list (the working group looking at SOA, within the SC’s work on distributed systems). I spent some time yesterday playing
catch up with the discussions and events of the last few months. What struck me most is that there is
already a decision to develop a SOA RA within the WG; and to use the Open Group RA as initial input. Heather Kreger has been appointed editor. Heather did mention this in passing at yesterday’s IEEE WG meeting but no approach to OASIS seems to
have been made. JTC1 working groups depend almost exclusively on ISO national delegations for their input – and, frankly, if we don’t have someone waving a flag for us, our chances of influence seem limited. I’m disappointed however that three active members
of the SC and the WG and who are heavily involved in OASIS and know very well of our interest in this work, seem to have decided to sit on their hands. I’m not suggesting a deliberate act but one of the three, our Board member from Oracle, was very clear last
year in stating that he thought “OASIS had nothing to offer SC38…” – so I draw my own conclusions. On a happier note, I should be able to take part in the September F2F of the WG taking place in Europe, so will have an opportunity there to raise our profile
– in the meantime, there will need to be some catch up and I will probably raise the issue at the Board in July, not as a complaint, but as an issue about the value and effectiveness of our PAS-submitter status, particularly without a national body “sponsor”
– I think this is the key point. Also related – and as I mentioned last week would happen – I had a long meeting with Thomas Erl and his staff about the work of SOA School and their entry into work and certification on cloud computing. They
are hosting a major event (www.ServiceTechSymposium.com) – also in Europe in September – at which both IEEE and Open group have already been offered speaking slots. Although
the speaker deadline is long passed, Thomas suggested that I could and should present the RAF – he also offered to facilitate and make a meeting room available, free of charge, to hold a three-way discussion between IEEE, TOG and OASIS to discussion cooperation
and our respective approaches to ISO. I agreed that this would be a great initiative and agreed to put something together today. I’ll report more to the TC next Wednesday. Signing off for now… Peter From: Ken Laskey [mailto:klaskey@mitre.org]
what got accomplished? what is next? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Kenneth Laskey MITRE Corporation, M/S H305 phone: 703-983-7934 7515 Colshire Drive fax: 703-983-1379 McLean VA 22102-7508 |
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