Issue:
"I would strongly urge you to both consider and refer to the RM-ODP as you
develop the SOA-RM, as much of the territory you are entering has been
explored there quite exhaustively. I would view SOA-RM as a spcialization
of the concepts presented there. Some good starting points:
Proposed Resolution:
No change to text;
Explanatory note to submitter:
"The OASIS SOA-RM Technical Committee (TC) recognizes the excellent body of
work for joint standardization of open distributed processing by the
International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU-T) that resulted in the Reference Model of
Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP). The scope of three of the four basic
International Standards that comprise the RM-ODP can loosely be mapped to
the work current being carried out by the OASIS SOA-RM TC and its Reference
Architecture Subcommittee (SOA-RA SC). Specifically, the RM-ODP Overview
and Architectural Semantics standards to the OASIS SOA-RM emerging standard,
and the RM-ODP Architecture standards to the OASIS SOA-RM emerging standard,
respectively. Work by the OASIS SOA-RA SC will be reviewing the
applicability of the RM-ODP standards for open distributed processing to
service-orientation, particularly with respect to infrastructure. In
addition, the SOA-RA SC fully expects to exploit the RM-ODP concept of
"viewpoints;" however, it will do so in concert with the more recent
ANSI/IEEE 1471-2000 Std. that formalizes the concept of "views" in addition
to viewpoints; both of which are integral to describing software-intensive
architectures. The remaining RM-ODP International Standard that needs
further exploration by the SOA-RM TC and SOA-RA SC is the Foundations
standard that provides the analytical framework for normalized description
of arbitrary distributed processing systems. As mentioned before, such
exploration will need to be conducted in a "service-oriented" context."
Jeff
Note that I've also added the explanatory note to the Issues spreadsheet
under a new Column "I" entry (see attached).
<IssuesListComments-3-JAE.xls>