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Subject: Call for Participation: OASIS OASIS Symptoms Autonomic Framework (SAF) TC
To: OASIS members & interested parties
A new OASIS technical committee is being formed. The OASIS Symptoms
Autonomic Framework (SAF) 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 [c].
To be considered a voting member at the first meeting, you must:
(a) join the Technical Committee at least 15/7 days prior to the
first meeting (15 October); and
(b) you must attend the first meeting of the TC, at the time and
date fixed below (22 October).
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, Technical Committee Administration
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
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[a] http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/saf/
[b] See http://www.oasis-open.org/join/
[c] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=saf
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
OASIS Symptoms Autonomic Framework (SAF) TC
Name
OASIS Symptoms Autonomic Framework (SAF) Technical Committee
Statement of Purpose:
IT and business systems are usually well instrumented to provide
operators and managers with a wealth of information about the state of
each of these systems. Experts in these domains also possess
substantial toolboxes of remedial techniques to bring these systems
and processes back online or to their desired state.
However, there often is a significant challenge in the integration,
interpretation, and analysis of this diverse state information
followed by the ability to act on that information. Failure to meet
this challenge impacts the organization through lost opportunities to
develop new and extend existing business, as well as the possible loss
of existing business through 'down time' or lower efficiency. The
continued drain on business and IT resources also impacts the overall
operational and business-related costs of the organization.
The aim of the Symptoms Autonomic Framework is to integrate
information and processes across the organization and/or cloud-enabled
services in a more holistic way by defining, enhancing, and
maintaining a standard XML-based framework that will enable the
collection, detection, isolation, and remediation/optimization of the
operational or business characteristics of complex systems with
applicability to both IT and non-IT domains including operational and
service management, governance, and security.
Scope of Work:
The TC is engaged in developing the Symptoms Autonomic Framework
specifications. This effort will deliver on the following high-level
goals:
* Ensure that the specifications can be applied to various sources
of event data, enabling a methodology to perform pattern matching,
diagnostics, and analysis in order to achieve a timely and accurate
resolution of a wide range of IT and non-IT situations.
* An implementation agnostic architecture to support both online
processing and offline operations.
The focus of the TC specifications will be predicated on further
development and refinement of the following contributions:
* Symptoms Framework White Paper Version 1.0: http://xml.coverpages.org/SAF/SAF-WhitePaper.doc
* Symptoms Autonomic Framework Specification Version 1.0: http://xml.coverpages.org/SAF/SAF-Spec-V10.doc
* SAF XML Schema: Message Types: http://xml.coverpages.org/SAF/SAF-MessageTypes-V10.xsd
* SAF WSDL Document: http://xml.coverpages.org/SAF/SAF-V10.wsdl
* SAF XML Schema: Symptoms, Syndromes, Protocols, Prescriptions: http://xml.coverpages.org/SAF/SAF-V10.xsd
It is anticipated that official contributions to the OASIS SAF TC will
be made in accordance with the TC Process; documents listed above are
unofficial, intended as display copies for informational purposes only.
The output specifications will uphold the basic principles of
specifications in terms of independence and composition. Each of the
elements of the symptoms information model will use implementation and
language neutral XML formats defined in XML Schema [1]. The TC will
not define a mapping of the functions and elements described in the
specifications to any programming language, to any particular
messaging middleware, nor to specific network transports.
In general, the goal is the further refinement of key entities and
their schema, which are listed below in general form and semantics to
provide structure and scope to the work of the TC. Additional entities
and their schema may be defined, if required.
* Symptom as an XML document that represents a dynamic state of the
system and possibly corresponds to a Syndrome and is described by the
Syndrome, indicating that the condition or situation is present in the
system.
* Syndrome as an XML document that identifies a collection of zero
or more related and potentially relevant Symptoms and represents a
potential positive or negative condition or situation in the system.
* Protocol as an XML document used for the generation of appropriate
Prescriptions with appropriate target-specific arguments.
* Prescription as an XML document that may be generated from
application of a Protocol. A Prescription may be used to confirm a
potential Syndrome diagnosis (match) via the creation of validating
Symptoms, for remediating a Syndrome, or Syndrome optimization. A
Prescription may include arguments specific to its target.
Furthermore, the TC will continue to develop and refine the
definitions of architectural roles that may be implemented as part of
the Symptoms Autonomic Framework including, but not limited to, those
listed below.
* Syndrome and Protocol Catalog as a container for Syndromes and
Protocols associated with the system for which that Catalogue was
designed.
* Symptom Store as a container for Symptoms that have been created
in the course of operation of a Symptoms Autonomic Framework.
* Diagnostician as the active entity that compares a set of Symptoms
with the signatures of various Syndromes to determine if any of the
Syndromes match the set of Symptoms.
* Practitioner as the active entity that administers Prescriptions.
* Case Manager to act as a general manager because other
architectural roles. Conceptually, such an entity might conduct a host
of activities such as keeping track of what Symptoms are currently of
importance, directing the activities of the other architectural roles,
managing queues of Prescriptions.
* Catalog Source emits entities that may be stored in a Syndrome and
Protocol Catalog.
* Symptom Source emits entities that may be stored in a Symptom Store.
Out of Scope
The following items are specifically out of scope of the work of the TC:
1. Specific implementation and performance tuning details
2. Domain specific Symptoms or Protocol catalog contents.
The TC will not attempt to define concepts or renderings for functions
that are of wider applicability including but not limited to:
* Addressing
* Policy language frameworks and attachment mechanisms
* Reliable message exchange
* Transactions and compensation
* Secure Conversations
* Metadata Exchange Protocols
* Resource Transfer protocol
Where required these functions are achieved by composition with other
Web services specifications.
List of Deliverables
The TC is targeting the first release for the middle of 2010. The
release will include versions of the following specifications:
* Glossary
* Message Exchange Patterns (including interfaces)
* The Symptoms Information Model (including definitions of
architectural roles that may be implemented)
* XML Schema definitions for all normative entities
Additional documents, such as a non-normative White Paper and/or a
Primer covering the use of the Symptoms Autonomic Framework including
scenarios and examples of message exchange in other domains (e.g. oil
and gas industry) may also be produced at the Committee's discretion.
The TC's intent is to pursue OASIS Standard status for all SAFTC Draft
Specifications.
These specifications will reflect refinements, corrections or material
technological improvements with respect to the input documents and in
accordance with this charter.
Exit Criteria
The TC shall define concrete exit criteria that include at least two
independent offerings that implement and are compliant with all the
required normative portions of the specifications and demonstrate
interoperability and portability as appropriate.
Maintenance
Once the TC has completed work on a deliverable and it has become an
OASIS standard, the TC will enter "maintenance mode" for that
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.
Specification of the IPR Mode under which the TC will operate:
This TC will operate under the "RF on Limited Terms" IPR mode as
defined in the OASIS Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy.
Audience:
The primary audience for the final output of this TC is architects
interested in enterprise management, autonomic computing, cloud
computing, as well as Symptoms and protocol catalog implementers.
Business analysts interested in the automatic resolution or
optimization of business processes and environments may also find the
output of this TC to be of interest.
Language of the TC:
All business of the TC will be conducted in English.
Non-Normative Information:
Identification of Similar and Complementary Works:
While similar works have not been identified within OASIS TCs,
complementary work is being pursued as follows:
* OASIS Emergency Management TC - SAF could be used to detect
inadequate emergency response capabilities.
* OASIS Energy Management TC - SAF could be used to detect early
indicators of supply & demand mis-matches.
* OASIS Open Building Information Exchange - SAF could be used to
detect building control system failures.
* OASIS SOA-End-to-End Resource Planning TC- SAF could be used in
the optimization of service deployment.
Outside of OASIS, some work is emerging, such as the Complex Event
Processing interoperability standards being proposed within the OMG,
the DMTF Common Diagnostic Model, and various working groups within
the Event Processing Technical Society.
The SAF TC plans to directly engage the complementary OASIS TCs listed
above, and will keep apprised of progress within the other SDOs and
organizations.
First Meeting Details:
The first meeting will be held via teleconference on Thursday October
22, 2009 at 12:00 noon EST, and will be convened by Jeff Vaught of
CA. The bridge number is 888-827-2241 (5132292435#).
Project On-going Meeting Schedule:
Meetings will be held subsequently on every Thursday at 12:00 noon EST.
Supporting Membership:
The membership supporting this proposal is as follows:
* Paul Lipton, CA, OASIS member, Paul.Lipton@ca.com
* Mike Baskey, IBM, OASIS member, mbaskey@us.ibm.com
* David Snelling, Fujitsu, OASIS member, David.Snelling@uk.fujitsu.com
* Abdi Salahshour, IBM, OASIS membership in-progress, abdis@us.ibm.com
* Alvin Black, CA, OASIS membership in-progress, Alvin.Black@ca.com
* Jeff Vaught, CA, OASIS member, Jeffrey.Vaught@ca.com
* Vivian Lee, Fujitsu, OASIS membership in-progress, Vivian.Li@uk.fujitsu.com
Convener:
Jeffrey Vaught, CA, OASIS member, Jeffrey.Vaught@ca.com
Member Section Affiliation:
The TC does not intend to affiliate with any OASIS Member Section at
this time.
Initial Contributions:
* Symptoms Framework White Paper Version 1.0: http://xml.coverpages.org/SAF/SAF-WhitePaper.doc
* Symptoms Autonomic Framework Specification Version 1.0: http://xml.coverpages.org/SAF/SAF-Spec-V10.doc
* SAF XML Schema: Message Types: http://xml.coverpages.org/SAF/SAF-MessageTypes-V10.xsd
* SAF WSDL Document: http://xml.coverpages.org/SAF/SAF-V10.wsdl
* SAF XML Schema: Symptoms, Syndromes, Protocols, Prescriptions: http://xml.coverpages.org/SAF/SAF-V10.xsd
References
[1] XML Schema Part 1: Structures Second Edition, W3C Recommendation,
October 2004
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-1-20041028/
XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition, W3C Recommendation,
October 2004
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-2-20041028/
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