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Subject: RE: [soa-rm] [issue:structure] draft 07, sect 2, line 201, Figure 2-1


Sorry Ken - I mixed up the policy specifications (WS-Confusion:p). It
was WS-RM Policy, not WS-Policy. However, WS-RM Policy is based on
WS-Policy, so perhaps WS-Policy will follow in the future (strictly a
hunch).

Joe

Joseph Chiusano
Booz Allen Hamilton
Visit us online@ http://www.boozallen.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Laskey [mailto:klaskey@mitre.org] 
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 5:32 PM
> To: SOA-RM
> Subject: Re: [soa-rm] [issue:structure] draft 07, sect 2, 
> line 201, Figure 2-1
> 
> When did this happen and what TC is it in?
> 
> Ken
> 
> At 12:45 PM 5/23/2005, Francis McCabe wrote:
> >I did not know that!
> >Thanks for the heads up
> >Frank
> >
> >On May 23, 2005, at 9:40 AM, Chiusano Joseph wrote:
> >
> >>Anything can change now that WS-Policy is being advanced 
> within OASIS.
> >>
> >>Joe
> >>
> >>Joseph Chiusano
> >>Booz Allen Hamilton
> >>Visit us online@ http://www.boozallen.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>From: Francis McCabe [mailto:fgm@fla.fujitsu.com]
> >>>Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 12:05 PM
> >>>To: Michael Stiefel
> >>>Cc: Rex Brooks; Duane Nickull; 'SOA-RM'
> >>>Subject: Re: [soa-rm] [issue:structure] draft 07, sect 2, 
> line 201, 
> >>>Figure 2-1
> >>>
> >>>WS-Policy's view of policy is also short-sighted.
> >>>
> >>>Frank
> >>>
> >>>On May 21, 2005, at 6:23 PM, Michael Stiefel wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>You definition of policy does not seem to coincide with
> >>>policy in the
> >>>
> >>>>sense that WS-Policy* understands it to be.
> >>>>
> >>>>Michael
> >>>>
> >>>>At 08:45 PM 5/20/2005, Rex Brooks wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Well, that gets difficult, doesn't it, since almost
> >>>anything can be
> >>>
> >>>>>brought in under policy, but my first list was expiration, 
> >>>>>synchronous v. asynchronous processing, registration,
> >>>security- both
> >>>
> >>>>>physical and per protocol, OS, platform, standards compliance, 
> >>>>>language dependence, flavor of DBMS, etc, etc. I think of
> >>>policy in
> >>>
> >>>>>this context to be related to terms and conditions and 
> legalities, 
> >>>>>such whether or not a service is intended to have
> >>>persistence or only
> >>>
> >>>>>exists during a lifecycle triggered by an event such as an
> >>>emergency
> >>>
> >>>>>alerting service or whether a software unit like an accounting 
> >>>>>package can be applied to a single department such as financial 
> >>>>>services or several departments such as Human Resources, 
> CRM, ECM, 
> >>>>>etc.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Ciao,
> >>>>>Rex
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>At 7:41 PM -0400 5/20/05, Michael Stiefel wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>So what would be a constraint that is not as vital as policy, 
> >>>>>>contract, and data?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Michael
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>At 07:14 PM 5/20/2005, Rex Brooks wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>At 6:18 PM -0400 5/20/05, Michael Stiefel wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>How is the data model a constraint?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>How is not?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>If everything is constraint, what is being constrained?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>What the service is and does and how it does it, how it can be 
> >>>>>>>consumed, by whom, etc. Everything is a constraint, and
> >>>I would be
> >>>
> >>>>>>>happy to see it join semantics in the wings as omnipresent.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>But it does serve the purpose of implying that some
> >>>constraints are
> >>>
> >>>>>>>more vital to the concept of a service than others, 
> and I think 
> >>>>>>>policy, contract and data model all stand up to that test.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Ciao,
> >>>>>>>Rex
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>Michael
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>At 05:56 PM 5/20/2005, Francis McCabe wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>I would prefer to see
> >>>>>>>>>1. policy, contract linked together -- reflecting the 
> >>>>>>>>>contract=agreed policy idea.
> >>>>>>>>>2. data model is one of the constraint types, like 
> policy and 
> >>>>>>>>>contract 3. we should also mention process model if we
> >>>are going
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>to call out the data model.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>Being a total pedantic, policy, agreement, process 
> model, data 
> >>>>>>>>>model together characterize the semantics; however,
> >>>the metadata/
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>service description is a projection of that semantics
> >>>(there may
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>be several service descriptions for one service).
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>Frank
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>On May 20, 2005, at 2:44 PM, Duane Nickull wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>Michael:
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>Thanks - I tried it horizontally and for some weird
> >>>reason, it
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>seems to resonate better.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>If we can get Frank's sign off and no one else has any 
> >>>>>>>>>>opposition, maybe we can use this one?
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>One other thought - should Data Model be larger?  
> In the book 
> >>>>>>>>>>Documenting Software Architectures, I seem to recall some 
> >>>>>>>>>>conversation about size mattering (yeah yeah). 
> Accordingly, I 
> >>>>>>>>>>enlarged the data model to give it more presence.
> >>>How does this
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>look?  See attached Core RM6.png
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>Duane
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>Michael Stiefel wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>Would going from right to left or left to right remove any 
> >>>>>>>>>>>associations of top and bottom as more natural or more 
> >>>>>>>>>>>fundamental?
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>Have you ever looked at a globe with the Southern
> >>>Hemisphere at
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>the top? To most of us that live in the Northern
> >>>Hemisphere it
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>looks wrong, but of course, from the point of view 
> of outer 
> >>>>>>>>>>>space either pole of the globe could be on top.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>I like the fact that semantics will be explained 
> on the side.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>Michael
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>At 02:37 PM 5/20/2005, Duane Nickull wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>Here is a rendering based on Greg's diagram that
> >>>accounts for
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>all the comments below.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>- I placed Metadata as a bracket inside the "service 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>description"
> >>>>>>>>>>>>box.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>- Semantics will have to be explained using text
> >>>accompanying
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>this diagram to state that they are omnipresent.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>- turned the stack upside down so service is at the
> >>>bottom.
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>To me, it seemed more intuitive that the thing that
> >>>is core is
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>at the bottom and the other items are built out 
> (up??) from 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>it.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>Comments?
> >>>>>>>>>>>>- used the UML dependency arrow as the convention between 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>service and service description to denote that a SD
> >>>should not
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>exist without a service.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>- redrew the line between metadata and policy / 
> contract to 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>connect with the outer container of "constraints"
> >>>>>>>>>>>>- removed the words "enables discoverability" from the 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>association.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>If we use this, we should probably build an appendix 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>containing clear and concise rules about how to
> >>>interpret this
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>mind map since it borrows association conventions
> >>>from UML and
> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>mixes them together with other conventions.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>Comments?
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>Duane
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>><CoreRM6.png>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>--
> >>>>>>>Rex Brooks
> >>>>>>>President, CEO
> >>>>>>>Starbourne Communications Design
> >>>>>>>GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison
> >>>>>>>Berkeley, CA 94702
> >>>>>>>Tel: 510-849-2309
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>--
> >>>>>Rex Brooks
> >>>>>President, CEO
> >>>>>Starbourne Communications Design
> >>>>>GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison
> >>>>>Berkeley, CA 94702
> >>>>>Tel: 510-849-2309
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >
> 
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