DRAFT - OpenCSA Steering Committee Minutes - 14 Sep 2007

[Graham Barber <graham_barber@uk.ibm.com>]

DRAFT - OpenCSA Steering Committee Minutes - 28 September
2007 9:00 AM PDT


0. Agenda bashing and Roll

Attending:                  Graham
Barber, David Burke, Jeff Mischkinsky, Sanjay Patil, Michael Rowley.
Apologies:                  Mark
Little.
Absent:          
               
 Patrick Leonard.        
OASIS Staff:                Dee
Schur.
Identified Observers:       Mike Edwards.
Notes:                    
 Graham Barber. 
Agenda Items added:         #10: OASIS Board Request
for Member Section representatives as Observers.

1. Minutes Approval 

- 14 September 2007:        Resolution to Approve:
Passed (Rowley/Burke)- Unanimous. 

2. Open Action Item Review 

- Summary of Open Items Due:
               
- Plan a series of OASIS-sponsored educational webinars for SCA (Open
Action Item #0009) - Agenda #7 
                - Populate the
Volunteer Presentations Database (Open
Action Item #0011) - Agenda #7 
                - Propose some
Rules for an Inter-TC Liaison Subcommittee (Open
Action Item #0013) - Agenda #4 
                - What should be
the version of the SCA specs? (Open
Action Item #0017) - Agenda #5 
                - Use of RFC 2119
keywords in the spec (Open
Action Item #0018) - Agenda #5 

- All covered by Agenda Items, so not discussed.

3. Plenary Week Debrief

- All were happy with a successful week with Day One attendees around 60.
Approximately 50 stayed for the TC meetings.
- Good quality of participation; good questions from
the floor.
- Thanks are offered to Sanjay and all others associated
with arrangements, logistics and sponsorship.

4. Inter TC Liaison Subcommittee

- OASIS committee are still discussing, although agreement is close. Disagreement
still on extent of visibility of work to the general public.
- Jeff had prepared a draft
charter ahead of the meeting which we reviewed.
- Discussion on the role and accountability of the
subcommittee followed, including attempts to clarify the limits of discussion
and the scope of recommendations.
- No conclusions were able to be reached. We decided
that we needed to discuss with appropriate OASIS staff, so item was deferred.
*** New
Action Item #0019: Invite appropriate OASIS
Staff members to next SC call (Graham).
Secretary's note: Action Item 13 closed.

5. TC Issues raised to Steering Committee

i) What should be the version of the SCA specs? (Open
Action Item #0017) 

Motion: The Steering Committee (SC) recommends to
each SCA Technical Committee that a single coordinated version number should
be implemented across all target deliverable specifications. The SC further
recommends that the current assumed version number should be Version "1.1",
but the TCs could consider a future coordinated change to "V2.0"
should technical content (for example compatibility issues) make that reasonable.

Motion (as amended - Mischkinsky/Barber - Unanimous
) Approved: (Barber/Rowley) - Unanimous.
Secretary's Note: AI #0017 closed.

ii) Use of RFC 2119 keywords in the spec (Open
Action Item #0018) 

Motion: The Steering Committee (SC) recommends to
each SCA Technical Committee to use the RFC 2119 keywords along with the
following restrictions in their specifications: 
a) All RFC 2119 keywords will be of the uppercase form (for example, RFC
2119 keywords MUST be capitalized) 
b) Use of lower-case 2119 keywords will not be used in the spec. When the
use of 2119 keyword is needed, without having the implications wrt conformance,
a suitable synonym will be found. 
c) RFC 2119 defines keywords that are synonyms of each other. For example
'SHALL' and 'MUST' mean the same thing. The TC decided to not use multiple
forms to mean the same. Therefore the TC decided to use 'MUST' instead
of 'SHALL' and 'MUST NOT' instead of 'SHALL NOT' through out the spec.

Motion Approved: (Mischkinsky/Rowley)- Unanimous.
Secretary's Note: AI #0018 closed.

6. Confirmation of Process (Issues to SC)

Graham summarized the proposed process for handling
SC issues:
i) Issues should be raised to Steering Committee (SC)
attention through the Member Section Mailing List: <opencsa-ms@lists.oasis-open.org>.
ii) SC Secretary will open Action Item on Member
Section kavi page.
iii) Issue will be discussed at next SC teleconference.
iv) On resolution, issue will be closed; SC Secretary
will inform raiser and post to any affected TC mailing Lists.
Process agreed without objection.

7. Evangelism Items

Mark unavailable, so item deferred to next meeting.
Secretary's note: Action Items 9 & 11 deferred
one week.

8. SDO Charter Status

Graham reported that Draft Charter for Service Data
Objects (SDO) was now in OASIS member review process. Comments closure
is October 9th.

9 Quarterly Report to OASIS Board Imminent?

Jeff will draft a Member Section report for review
by the SC at the next call on October 5th.
*** New
Action Item 0020: Draft Q3 Report for SC
Review (Mischkinsky).
*** Post Meeting Note: Dee confirmed that target date
was not until 23 Oct 2007.

10. Request for Observers from Each Member Section
Steering Committee

Jeff Mischkinsky reported that the OASIS Board desired
to have representatives of each Member Section SC present as Observers
in the committee meetings where Member Section Process was discussed. All
SC representatives should consider volunteering for the role (Jeff is excluded
as he chairs that subcommittee as an OASIS Board Member).
*** New
Action Item 0021: SC Members should consider
volunteering to act as Observer at OASIS Process Subcommittee Meetings.

Any Other Business? 

- None.

Future SC Agenda Topics? 

None offered.

Forthcoming Vacation/Absence information?

None offered.

Confirmation of next Teleconference. 

The next regular teleconference is at 9am PDT on Friday
October 5th. 

Closure 

Meeting closed, 10.00am PDT. 


Respectfully Submitted,
Graham Barber, 
Secretary.

Graham J Barber,

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