Next steps for the SCA Assembly TC

[Mike Edwards <mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com>]

Folks

Following the recent ballot on the proposal
to close the SCA Assembly TC, which did not achieve the required
supermajority and so failed, we need to plan the next steps for the TC.

There has also been a flurry of activity and emails relating to conformance
testing of the Fabric3 runtime which
need addressing. 

The idea that the chairs would like to propose is that the SCA Assembly
TC should continue working towards getting
the SCA Assembly Model specification to Committee Specification status,
but only for a limited additional period
of time.  We feel that reasonable notice should be given to potential
conforming runtime owners to come forward,
but that we should not commit to continue the work of the TC indefinitely.
 So, we propose that a time limit of 3 months
is used, by which time a second conforming runtime is presented to the
TC, or else we should close the TC.

If a conforming runtime is presented, then we should look to process the
SCA Assembly Model specification to
Committee Specification status (note: this could extend beyond the 3 months
discussed above, depending on
process issues...).  Once Committee Specification status us reached,
then we should consider the appropriate next
steps. 

In order to discuss both the Fabric3 submissions and the content of this
email, we propose to have a teleconference
of the SCA Assembly TC at the "regular" time of 08:00 Pacific
on March 26th.

Note that Bindings, Java and Policy TCs will
also need to meet to discuss their respective Fabric3 submissions,
so we suspect that there will be an overall
process spanning a number of weeks.

Comments welcome. 


Yours, Mike

Dr Mike Edwards		Mail Point 137, Hursley Park
STSM		Winchester, Hants SO21 2JN
Cloud Computing & Services Standards		United Kingdom
Chair UK ISO SC38 mirror committee (Cloud & SOA)
Co-Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC
PEPPOL eProcurement team member
IBM Software Group
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