Re: [soa-eerp] Some reading material on good specifications

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Thanks Bill,

This is very helpful. Please extend my thanks to the TAB.

I want to take this opportunity to explain why I have been unable to 
attend many meetings recently. I have basically dedicated the rest of 
summer, August, to push the OASIS Service Oriented Architecture 
Reference Model Technical Committee's Reference Architecture 
Subcommittee (SOA-RM-RA SC) to finish its work to the point that we can 
release the Reference Architecture Foundation for Service Oriented 
Architecture (SOA-RAF) for its second 60-Day Public Review.

This work is critical for almost all of the work I'm doing in OASIS, so 
I am putting the entire specification into the Sparx Systems Enterprise 
Architect UML Tool to ensure that it is internally consistent, and for 
use in my other work.

That work will include the SOA-EERP TC once the SOA-RAF work is 
concluded. I simply don't see any way I can push the SOA-RAF to 
completion without doing this. After three and a half years, it is 
overdue. Because it is essential, I can't let it continue to slide due 
to the extent that the members of SOA-RM-RA SC are overscheduled.

So, if I want the others to devote more time to finishing this work, I 
have to do so myself.

I will re-engage the SOA-EERP as soon as I can get this other work 
concluded.

Respectfully,
Rex

William Cox wrote:
> All --
>
> Please look at the following guidelines on the OASIS Technical 
> Advisory Board Wiki:
>
> http://wiki.oasis-open.org/tab/InteropGuide   Interoperability 
> Guidelines, definition
>
> http://wiki.oasis-open.org/tab/TestabilityGuide Testability Guidelines
>
> These are both expert advice on how to create good, testable, 
> interoperable specifications.
>
> Thanks!
>
> bill
> -- 
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