RE: [soa-rm] More on the Diagrams

["Peter F Brown" <peter@justbrown.net>]

Rex:
If you are copyrighting the fancy graphics, fine: but the content is a mix
of SOA-RM TC output so far - which belongs to all of us - or stuff not
directly related and which I do not think (at best) reflects the TC
consensus so far or is (at worse) misleading.
Also, the phrase "Registries-Repositories facilitate discovery of service
descriptions, T-Models, WSDL Bindings" should at the very least have an
"etc." at the end. I would not otherwise be happy that this is a statement
of our position.
On a more presentational concern: I think it is not a good idea to represent
an abstract reference model using "real life" images. The (what look like)
nested wooden drawers at the bottom are misleading. These concepts (and they
are no more concrete than that for the RM) are not nested, for starters...
I strongly feel we should keep it as a simple "chalkboard" drawing. Let's
agree the diagram first...then maybe we could commission you to come up with
a nice figure (and the graphics are good, they just need to be appropriate
too)

-Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com] 
Sent: 30 May 2005 03:38
To: soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [soa-rm] More on the Diagrams

Hi Folks,

I decided to go ahead  and build one of my presentation type diagrams,since
I will inevitably do so and waiting until we have finalized the RM will not
allow me to use it in the interim. The fact is I need to add it to my
explanations of SOA and the presentations I have built over the last two
years, so here it is as far as I can take it now, reflecting my own opinion.
While I am willing to donate it to the TC according to the OASIS guidelines,
I am hereby giving the chair official notice that my copyright rides along,
free of charge only to the TC for use in the RM, and that I am willing to
make reciprocal agreements with any company or individual
(independent) OASIS member for royalty-free use of my materials between that
organization and Humanmarkup.org, Inc., the non-profit I represent and to
which I am donating this work for this purpose. I am also including a sister
diagrams that reflects how I see this diagram of RM fitting into the Web
Services Stack and the OSI Model. Please note that I represent the overlap
of OSI layers by repeating the Application Layer. The diagram titled SOA-RM
Infrastructure reflects my interpretation of Ken Laskey's diagram but with
Service Description subsumed in the Registry/Repository-SOA RM Central
Stack. 
I wanted to show that the Resources and Service Consumers connect to the
common infrastructure of the Internet with Intranets considered as part and
parcel of that backbone, while Services aggregate and coordinate those
resources through the central registry model.

Ciao,
Rex

P.S. I leave the Mind-Map to those more familiar with it, since I am more
familiar with the task of explaining and building graphics to aid that.
--
Rex Brooks
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