FINAL - OpenCSA Steering Committee Minutes - 05 Oct 2007

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

DRAFT - OpenCSA Steering Committee Minutes - 05 October
2007 9:00 AM PDT


0. Agenda bashing and Roll

Attending:                  Graham
Barber, David Burke, Patrick Leonard, Mark Little, Jeff Mischkinsky, Sanjay
Patil, Michael Rowley.
Apologies:                  None.
Absent:                  
  None.        
OASIS Staff:                Dee
Schur, Mary McRae, Robin Cover, Patrick Gannon.
Identified Observers:       Mike Edwards.
Notes:                    
 Graham Barber. 
Agenda Items added:         None.

1. Minutes Approval 

- 28 September 2007:        Resolution to Approve:
Passed (Leonard/Little)- Unanimous. 

2. Open Action Item Review 

- Summary of Open Items Due: -
All Items covered by Agenda Items, so not discussed.

3 (8). Evangelism Items

- Mark is in touch with all Plenary Week presenters following Sanjay's
confirmation that all are available to do the webinars.
- Expectation is that, through OASIS Staff organizing
& advertizing, we execute a set of six live webinars, potentially on
consecutive days.
- Webinars will be recorded for future download.
- Dee Schur is the OASIS Staff contact point; Mark
will continue TC personnel negotiations.
- Mark also plans to populate the Presentations Database
with the collateral.
- AI's 9 & 11 remain open; dates reset.
- On request, Graham summarized that the proposed
vendor-neutral roadshow is now supported by Adobe, IBM and Rogue Wave.
Other companies are in discussion. IBM are likely to focus on events before
YE07 with Adobe & Rogue Wave arranging 1Q08 events.

4 (3). Inter TC Liaison Subcommittee

- Discussion continued with OASIS staff around the draft
charter prepared by Jeff.
- Key points that were made and principles agreed in discussion:
1) This subcommittee is not a decision making body.
2) This subcommittee is empowered to make recommendations
to the appropriate TCs and/or SC.
3) This subcommittee must not disenfranchise the role
& responsibilities of the TCs in technical discussions.
4) Based upon OSOA experience, we do not expect the
quantity of items that require addressing to be high.
5) We foresee cross-TC liaison required in areas exemplified
by:
- Start-up issues including naming, versioning, logistics,
- Test Suite issues that cross-TCs,
- Logistics issues, including face-face meetings,
- Close-down issues including schedules, exit criteria,
etc.
6) The subcommittee will not discuss issues which
are the sole purview of any individual TC.
7) The subcommittee will only work on issues passed
to it by resolutions made by the SC or any SCA TC.
8) The subcommittee will discuss those, and only those
issues, with the sole view to passing a recommendation back to the requesting
TC/SC.
9) The subcommittee may re-discuss an issue should
a recommendation be rejected by one or more TCs. We did not discuss due
process here.
10) The subcommittee should have its own JIRA section.
Note that we had previously discussed having its own mailing list.
- Jeff will take the above input and update the next
draft of its charter for SC discussion (target Oct 19th).
- Any further input on the draft
charter should be sent via e-mail either
to Jeff or to this Member Section Mailing List.
       

5 (4). TC Issues raised to Steering Committee

i)  Document URL structure  (Open
Action Item #0022)

- Both the Steering Committee and OASIS Staff were
happy with the recommendation as far as it goes.
- However, given that the recommendation was incomplete,
we agreed to ask the raiser for a full proposal for discussion.

ii) NameSpace
URI Design and Dereferencing  (Full
e-mail thread) 

- The OASIS Staff concerns regarding the lack of accountable TC ownership
seemed resolvable by a proposal that the Assembly TC take ownership for
artifacts in a shared SCA NameSpace.        -
Sanjay agreed to write up a modified proposal for SC discussion.

6 (5). Access to the Member Section Mailing List

- Motion: The <opencsa-ms> mailing list should be writable by all
members of OASIS.
- Resolution to Approve Motion: Passed (Patil/Burke)-
Unanimous. 

7 (6). Request for OpenCSA to Sponsor Open Standards
Forum
           
    
- Dee clarified request and all SC Members will take
back to their companies for consideration. 

8 (7). SC Members should consider volunteering
to act as Observer at OASIS Process Committee Meetings

- No volunteers at the meeting.
- Relevant calls occur at 11am PT, Tuesdays, biweekly.
- Interested SC members are encouraged to contact
Jeff off-line next week.

9. SDO Charter Status

- Graham reported that Draft Charter for Service Data Objects (SDO) was
now in OASIS member review process, with comments closure on October 9th.
- Motion: The Open CSA Steering Committee views favorably the current
draft SDO Charter and would expect to take a positive view with respect
to Member Section affiliation, subject to viewing the final charter and
the issues resolution log.
- Resolution to Approve Motion: Passed (Barber/Rowley)-
Unanimous. 

Any Other Business? 

- None. 

Future SC Agenda Topics? 

None offered. 

Forthcoming Vacation/Absence information?

- Graham & Sanjay: Vacation: October 8-12th.
- Agenda for next meeting to be prepared by Jeff
Mischkinsky, Minutes to be provided by Michael Rowley.

Confirmation of next Teleconference. 

The next regular teleconference is at 9am PDT on Friday October 12th.

Closure 

Meeting closed, 10.20am PDT. 


Respectfully Submitted,
Graham Barber, 
Secretary. 

Graham J Barber,

Program Director, SOA Partnerships,
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