RE: [provision] Formation of editiorial roles and possible sub-committee

[Hal Lockhart <hal.lockhart@entegrity.com>]

Title: RE: [provision] Formation of editiorial roles and possible sub-committee

I am willing to act as Technology Reporter for SAML and XACML.

Hal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darran Rolls [mailto:Darran.Rolls@waveset.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 10:18 AM
> To: provision@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [provision] Formation of editiorial roles and possible
> sub-committee
>
>
> Folks
>
> In order to move this initiative forward, I believe the time
> has come to
> break up our activities into responsible roles (editors) or
> to formally
> create sub-committee's to address specific aspects of the problem
> domain.
>
> What do we need?
> ================
> At this point in time, it appears that we have two parallel activities
> under way.  The first is to expand and complete the requirements
> process.  The second is to analyze specific adjacent technologies and
> asses their impact on SPML. The third is a kind of PR role to help
> promote participation, general awareness and Provisioning
> Service Target
> vendor involvements.  These are discussed below.
>
> Editors or sub-committees?
> ==========================
> On the basis that the above activities may be core to many of our
> interests, we may (undesirably) end up all involved with
> everything.  If
> this is the case, it may be prudent to assign coordinating editors
> without sub-committees, and move to an informal WG tele-conference on
> each subject.
>
> If we feel there is sufficient separation of
> interest/involvement then I
> propose the formation of these activities as formal
> sub-committees with
> assigned chairs etc.
>
> Use Cases & requirement
> =======================
> This activity (editor or sub-committee) would be responsible for the
> following:
>
> * Expansion of requirements and use-case "primitives"
> unearthed at F2F#1
> * Creation of a constant set of UML use-cases and detailed
> requirements
> for SPML
> * On-ward maintenance of a detailed glossary
> * Creation of a domain-model for SPML
>
> Technology Reporters
> ====================
> This may sound a little nebulas but, the idea is that there are many
> adjacent technologies that do/could effect the requirements of SPML.
> This activity would be responsible for investigating and reporting and
> recommending to the committee specific adjacent technologies that
> effects/over-laps with our efforts. This may be best suited to a
> "reporter" type role, in which a responsible individual collates,
> summarizes and recommends to the committee details of the "subject
> matter" in the form of an informal report.  This role would then morph
> into a more traditional liaison role if appropriate.
>
> Here is a straw-man of the areas I believe we need to dive into:
>       - ASN.1 MIB->XML
>       - CIM/XML initiative
>       - OASIS CIQ
>       - OASIS SAML 7 XACML
>       - OASIS ebXML
>       - W3C Web Services Architecture WG
>       - SOAP security
>
> PR
> ==
> It was suggested at F2F#1 that someone needs to focus on the
> PR aspects
> of our initiative.  In outline this means producing a plan for press,
> analyst and events.  Working in conjunction with Carol@OASIS to plan,
> execute and report to the group on activities.  Again this could be an
> assigned role or a sub-committee activity.
>
> Thoughts comments?
>
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