Re: [soa-rm] Glossary

[Matthew MacKenzie <mattm@adobe.com>]

If I host a Wiki, will OASIS throw a fit?  Wiki would be great for this.

-Matt
Ken Laskey wrote:

> Duane,
>
> Could we also have a pedestrian version of the glossary where anyone 
> could put in a short thought or a link to a more detailed discourse?  
> That way, if someone had something they wanted to make sure didn't get 
> lost in the email traffic, they'd have a place to put it for others to 
> consider.  The pedestrian entries could be fairly rough because the 
> version maintained by the editing team would capture and clean up the 
> consensus.
>
> Ken
>
> At 02:56 PM 4/11/2005, Duane Nickull wrote:
>
>> Editing Team:
>>
>> Can we follow up on Ken's suggestion and make a draft glossary on the 
>> terms that we agree on based on consensus on this list?  I would 
>> propose that the glossary contain two classifications "proposed" and 
>> "accepted" or something like that.
>>
>> We should all probably keep the following in mind:
>>
>> 1. Avoid the temptation to place every single term in the glossary.
>> Limit it to terms which are ambiguous due to the existence of 
>> multiple definitions or where our definition, in our context, is 
>> substantively different from the common definitions (locally scoped).
>>
>> 2. Try to avoid unquantitative adjectives unless they are necessary 
>> to clarify semantics (example of bad use - "foo is the best way to do 
>> something")
>>
>> 3. Do not use circular references (example " a service is a service 
>> offered by a component")
>>
>> This living draft document should live inside Kavi and be accessible 
>> by all TC members.
>>
>> The following terms are probably good first candidates:
>>
>> Architecture (accepted - from charter)
>> Service (proposed)
>> Advertising (propose "a methodology to convey awareness of (the 
>> existence of) a service(s) to all consumers on a fabric" but would 
>> like to hear others opinions)
>> Service Consumer (proposed, derived from list, may not be part of 
>> reference model but may be good to define since it may be discussed 
>> more)
>> Service Description (proposed, derived from position papers, list)
>> Data Model (or similar concept term)
>> Contract (or similar term)
>> ...
>>
>>
>> Duane
>>
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