RE: [wsdm] [UPlat] Action items for next weeks meeting

["MURRAY,BRYAN (HP-Seattle,ex1)" <bryan.murray@hp.com>]

Included is my homework. I did not find a glossary for MUWS, but some of the
terms I use come from the glossary for MOWS. I also recommend that we add a
definition for 'manager'.


Addressing

1) Addressing is the ability to reference another entity. One examples of
where a reference is required is in a relationship to refer to the entities
that have an association with each other. Another example is to refer to the
Web service where asynchronous notifications should be sent. In general, the
Web service exposing the manageability interfaces for a resource may need a
reference to the resource. Since not all resources are Web services, a
reference must be defined such that non-Web service entities can also be
referred to. The special case of referring to a Web service entity should
refer to the WSDL for the Web service such that a manager can choose which
Web service endpoint it wants to send messages.

2) Addressing is required to provide references to other entities. Other
entities may include resources, Web services, WSDL documents, policy
descriptions, as well as other documents and services. Addressing defines
the mechanism used to specify the reference. Management using Web services
requires a standard mechanism for referring to other entities.



Collection

1) A collection is an entity which acts as a proxy to zero or more other
entities. A manager can send a single request to a collection where the
result is that zero or more members of the collection are acted upon as
specified in the request. The members of a collection are managed entities
in their own right and have their own management interfaces. The result of a
manager sending a single request to a collection must be the same as a
manager sending a separate message to each of the selected members of the
collection individually. It is not necessary that the collection actually
send separate messages to each of its members, only that the result to the
members is the same. A collection provides a mechanism to perform the same
action on many managed entities at once, and acts as one scalability
mechanism in a management system.

2) As the number of managed resources grows, it becomes more important for a
management system to provide a mechanism to allow a manager to perform the
same action on many resources at once. For instance, with a collection a
manager can query for the state of all resources in the collection at once
rather than one at a time. Also, it is possible for a collection to reset
the state of metrics for the resources in the collection using a single
request. A collection provides the ability for a management system to scale
much better than a system not supporting collections. Also, there are cases
where the exact membership of a group is better known by an entity, such as
a collection, that may be closer to the group than a manager. This allows
the manager to defer to the collection to determine the exact entities to
act upon.


I will be out of the office for the next 2 weeks, but hope to be able to
discuss this when I return.

Bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: ECKERT,ZULAH (HP-Cupertino,ex1) [mailto:zulah_eckert@hp.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:20 AM
To: wsdm@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [wsdm] [UPlat] Action items for next weeks meeting



Here is the action for next weeks meeting and the list of item/things as
assigned during todays meeting. Please try to have your item done by COB on
Monday 10/13 so that we can have some email discussion prior to next weeks
meeting.

Action: For each item/thing  
  1) create appropriate definitions using glossary terms where available.
Ideally, your definition would become part of the glossary
  2) describe why this is necessary for MUWS

At this point, we are at a fairly course grained level of detail. Keeping
your deliverable succinct and to the point will help everyone come to an
understanding about the 15+ items so that we can prioritize at the next
meeting.

Action assignments:

Identification - Unique Id for svcs - Igor
Notification Mechanism - Igor
Registration/discovery/location - Igor

Version - version of service, in URIs today, w3c tab? sufficient? - Andrea
transaction - Andrea

Attributes & Metadata - Heather
Relation - Heather
Relationship Service? - Heather

Addressing - being able to convey a reference - like ws-addressing and
gsr/gsh - Bryan Collection - Bryan 

Security - +bootstrap security mode? - John DeCarlo

Work Flow, scripting (e.g., BPEL)- William

Policy - may not be reqd for vers 1 - Andreas
Policy Decision Point/Policy Enforcement Point - Andreas

Negotiation - Zulah

Logging - Ellen
Lifecycle Support (e.g., factory) - Ellen

Let me know if any clarification is necessary,
Zulah

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