Comments on New Charter

[peter@justbrown.net]

I must give my formal apologies for absence from the confcall later today, and thus submit my meeting contribution in writing.

Main observations:

My vote would be for a completely new TC, and would thus associate my OASIS membership with the proposed charter as a sponsor.

Equally, I would vote for putting current ebSOA TC on ice during the period of the new TCs mandate.

It might be useful to establish liaisons at an early stage, both within OASIS and beyond (W3C, ISO, CEN, OMG?)

I would keep the TC scope and mandate tight, and have only the Ref Model as a deliverable, but with an "open door" to spin off other work, *when* this is done.
 
As I witnessed following some of the ISO Topic Maps Reference Model debates, the whole world of context-specific implementations and specializations becomes a whole lot easier once your reference model is in place, rather than trying to extract a ref model from already contextualised implementations and models.

Once the reference model is completed - under a tight timeframe - my preference is for twelve months - then we can allow ourselves the luxury to commission specialisations of the reference model
 
I am particularly interested in the semantic and "data/information" aspects of the model.

Good luck with the meeting.

Regards,

Peter