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Subject: Whither the No-Service-Consumer Motion?
- From: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
- To: soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org
- Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 04:46:19 -0700
Title: Whither the No-Service-Consumer
Motion?
Hi Folks,
This being the one week in which I have a tiny bit of extra time,
while working on "Ontology Manageement for Federal Agencies Part
2," and in light of the fact that this critical and unresolved
issue was not ready for our last TC meeting, AND because I have
prepared myself to to write a Minority Report in anticipation of
losing the ballot we have agreed to conduct, I can't help but wonder
what happened to Peter Brown's Motion to officially place the Service
Consumer out of the SO?, or is it SOA? RM.
I would truly appreciate having the motion out for a ballot and a
clarification of whether the RM is SO or SOA. To say that those of us,
or at least one of those of us, who sincerely believe that keeping the
Service Consumer out of the Reference Model is like tying one hand
behind our backs, and after having collected a bit of outside
feedback, tepid though it is and constrained as it is by the obvious
headlong rush of the industry to embrace ANYTHING that can create a
marketing BUZZ, I would appreciate being able to finish up my own
engagement with this issue while I have a break and just before all of
Europe and most of North America takes a two month siesta. Otherwise,
you can expect me to proprose my own motion to include the Service
Consumer at some point in the future, so heads up, please!
Also, for those of us stateside, I would like to remind you that
the juggernaut called the Federal Enterprise Architecture Data
Reference Model is rolling downhill at an increasing pace, so if you
want to have a say in it, you should be aware that this effort also
appears to be set to move forward come hell or high water, or both,
this summer, but there is public feedback mechanism
http://colab.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/drm-public
Please do not mistake courtesy for silence in not pestering us
all with this on a continual basis nor should this courtesy be
construed as anything resembling consent. I see no sense in making a
nuisance out of this and I am reasonable able to read the handwriting
on the wall to use a well worn trope, and I respect everyone's time as
much as my own, but it is time to get this out of the way.
Lastly, the proponents out there of the Enterprise Service Bus
and SOA Fabric both are continuing to whip their steeds into as much
of a lather as they can in order to own a rarified position in the
driver's seat of SOA. Neither concept works for me, but the marketing
hype continues with more than a healthy dollop froth which is only to
be expected, after all.
However, I have noted a tendency in this TC to use the fabric
concept, and I don't think it is warranted, and in fact, is likely to
place us in a particular camp or school of thought. I don't think we
should be doing that.
It seems to me that we should identify in the RM or in the
RA (if that is the course we choose for including a need for which
a service ought to be considered before developed rather than the
other way round), that there are various frameworks which be used
in SOA, including UDDI and ebXML Registry/Repository, and Extended
Metadata Registry (XMDR) for ISO 11179, in order to build
well-maintained and reliable registries-repositories of resources
through which Services and Service Consumers can identify, locate and
verify each other. We don't need nice, catchy phraseology from one or
another camp, vendor community or school of thought.
As someone noted, we are already saddled by a marketing concept
phrase in our very existence as the "Service-Oriented
Architecture" Reference Model. Can we not compound this situation
with a back-handed endorsement of one or another largely
vendor-centric label for a non-vendor-centric framework? May we also
not restrict ourselves to UDDI or ebXML or ISO 11179?
Ciao,
Rex
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Rex Brooks
President, CEO
Starbourne Communications Design
GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison
Berkeley, CA 94702
Tel: 510-849-2309
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