Re: [soa-rm] Service Consumer in RM or not?

[Michael Stiefel <development@reliablesoftware.com>]

I am not so sure that a SO RM will be confusing if we come out with a SOA 
RA/RM at the same time. One particular large vendor has been talking about 
their product being focused on SO and not SOA.

Michael

At 03:52 PM 6/7/2005, Duane Nickull wrote:


>Chiusano Joseph wrote:
>
>>- A Service Orientation Reference Model (SO RM) - that is, don't label 
>>this as "SOA RM" but rather "SO RM"
>>- A SOA Reference Architecture (SOA RA)
>>
>>rather than a single SOA Reference Model (SOA RM).
>Joseph:
>
>Our intent (as expressed in our charter) has always been to do this.
>The only difference is the change of the name from SOA RM to SO RM.
>
>Pro of renaming to SO RM:
>
>- more accurate reflection of what it really is.
>
>Con of renaming to SO RM:
>
>- losing the correlation with SOA.  We are trying to define SOA.  If we 
>change the name, it may be perceived as defining something different which 
>means we are in the same place as we started when we finish.
>- People may not reconcile the work with SOA which is the primary goal of 
>the TC
>
>If there is a desire to explore this further, I would ask that someone who 
>is a voting member please ask that this be put up for a web ballot.
>
>Duane