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Subject: RE: [oasis-charter-discuss] Proposed Charter for OASIS Identity inthe Clouds TC


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Several comments on the WS-Calendar webinar last Friday suggested the applicability of that standard to Manufacturing and to managing delivery of resources across manufacturing operations. It was suggested that we actively recruit such perspectives onto the team, as well as actively seek an expansion of use cases from this area.

Can you offer any help?

tc


"If flies are allowed to vote, how meaningful would a poll on what to have for dinner be, and what would be on the menu?" -  Unknown

Toby Considine
Chair, OASIS oBIX Technical Committee
Co-Chair, OASIS Technical Advisory Board
Facilities Technology Office
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
  
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mason, Howard (UK) [mailto:Howard.Mason@baesystems.com] 
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 5:52 PM
To: Patrick Durusau; oasis-charter-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [oasis-charter-discuss] Proposed Charter for OASIS Identity in the Clouds TC

Co-Chair of OASIS PLCS TC concurs.

Development of standards needs to be done against one or more use cases.
These cases can then be used to promote the solutions as solving actual problems.  The US and European aerosapce and defence industries use a similar approach when selecting standards for industry-wide recommended adoption - I co-chair the standards strategy groups in both trade associations and would welcome a clear proposal for action, especially taken into consideration against major existing efforts such as TSCP (Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program) 


Howard Mason
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-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Durusau [mailto:patrick@durusau.net]
Sent: 21 February 2010 22:31
To: oasis-charter-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [oasis-charter-discuss] Proposed Charter for OASIS Identity in the Clouds TC


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Greetings!

The original charter for this TC appears at: 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oasis-charter-discuss/201001/msg000
00.html
and my original comments: 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oasis-charter-discuss/201001/msg000
03.html.

To its credit, the charter now has support from both IBM and Microsoft,
so we are only missing Amazon, Google and Oracle, to name a few of the
other major players in *cloud* computing.

Remaining/recurrent issues include (I haven't tried to be exhaustive):

1) OASIS TC proposals should not invent confusing terminology in any
standards area. For example, there isn't any "Identity in the Clouds" 
technical effort anywhere in known space. There are standards being
developed for *cloud* computing and questions of identity in the
*cloud.*

The name of this TC and its charter are noise pollution in an important
area of computing.

2) OASIS TC proposals should propose the development of *standards* to
address known issues. It is inappropriate to propose a charter with no
known purpose or target for its effort, other than to go "gap hunting" 
through other standards efforts. From the description in the charter, it
bears a strong resemblance to a "snipe hunt." (On which see: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe_hunt)

3) An OASIS TC isn't necessary to find and communicate "gaps" noticed in
Identity Management protocols. Email to the authors of those protocols
would suffice.

4) Unless other standards efforts have designated the proposed TC as the
arbiter of terms and their definitions, the goal to "harmonize
definitions/terminologies/vocabulary of Identity in the context of Cloud
Computing" seems unlikely to be successful. Particularly since this
effort starts with fanciful invention of terms in the area.

Let's cut to the chase. This is a TC to go hunting for a standard or
perhaps not, to write.

Why not develop one or more use cases that illustrate a gap in existing
standards, create or have a proposal to create a standard or profile to
address that gap and then form a TC?

What is so hard about that?

It would have a defined scope, a meaningful description of a projected
work product, a description that could entice others into joining the
work, a place to fit into the larger panoply of standards in the area,
in short all the things one expects of a standards TC and its work
product.

As I said in my original comments, this is an *important* area of
computing. It is an area where OASIS should be encouraging the formation
of *useful* TCs to address known issues. Forming TCs to go "gap hunting"

in existing or new areas of computing technology does not reflect well
on OASIS and by extension its members.

Let's not embarrass ourselves by forming a TC that has no clear purpose
or goal.

Hope everyone is at the start of a great week!

Patrick

PS: I am a member of the OASIS Technical Advisory Board (TAB) but this
posting does not reflect any official view of the TAB or OASIS.

--
Patrick Durusau
patrick@durusau.net
Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)


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