Folks,
I have another question (which is, probably, not the right time to ask since the period of comments for 0.2 version is closed... but I will try):
I've just realised that the RA interprets 'service execution context' from RM as "Within the RM, the execution context stood for all the aspects of an information system that are needed to facilitate interaction. A large part of the goals of the Reference Architecture is to show how interaction is realized". Plus, "Descriptions of the provider and consumer are the essential building blocks for establishing the execution context of an interaction." That is, it is a communication context.
In another place: "The execution context can be thought of as a series of answers to the questions of why would the participants be willing to interact and whether such interaction is possible", i.e. one can assume that the context may include business conditions/context as a factor of willingness to interact. This corresponds to the references to the policies in the RM's definition (policies, which may apply as to the communication as to the execution on the provider side and be agreed in the Service Contract).
I have read the RM's definition of the execution context as both - information AND business context of execution of the service rather than just communication information system context. For example, assume we have a service for calculating a fund price. We have corporate divisions in the US and in the UK working with different funds but in the same fund category. Besides different policies, the calculation method is different (in the business definition) in the US and the UK. That is, the service execution context from business perspective is different. So, before reusing the service even in the same information infrastructure, it is better to, at least, re-test it even if no one bit of its implementation is changed.
I think we have to clear state what is meant by the service execution context in the RA.
Cheers,
Michael Poulin
Head of Business Analysis and Web Architecture
Senior Manager, Web Delivery
Fidelity Investments International
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