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Subject: The riot act (toned down version)
TC: I would like to defer on the current questions for a moment and reflect on a few things. Things are starting to heat up in the TC and if we are going to make progress, we have to agree on something. My observations is that we are all after the same goals (or hope we are). The high level goal is to define SOA. In our charter, we have agreed to do this by first building a Reference Model, followed possibly by a RA. This idea of two separate documents is in our charter. The current proposal for this is therefore conceptually in alignment, just the names and details require sorting. We also have a definition of Reference Model in our charter and some Q&A further explaining it. We all agreed to this when we signed up. "Reference Model - A reference model is an abstract framework for understanding significant relationships among the entities of some environment, and for the development of consistent standards or specifications supporting that environment. A reference model is based on a small number of unifying concepts and may be used as a basis for education and explaining standards to a non-specialist. [1] A reference model is not directly tied to any standards, technologies or other concrete implementation details, but it does seek to provide a common semantics that can be used unambiguously across and between different implementations." Here is the problem: A TC needs some common ground it can stand on in order to operate. This TC needs to have our charter and referenced materials as common ground to start. At this point, I hope that no one challenges this definition of a RM. If we do not have that as common ground, we have some hard times ahead. We also have defined Architecture in our charter: "Architecture - Software architecture for a system is the structure or structures of the system, which consist of elements and their externally visible properties, and the relationships among them.[2]" This appears to be in alignment with what several on this TC are calling for WRT the second document (Which I am also in favor of since it clearly has great value). The RA (second document) is where things like Service Consumers are going to be present, along with messages, security etc. SOA RM TC recap: What is going well: We have tons of very good talent in this TC and a huge number of active participants with lots of ideas. What is not going well: We have tons of very good talent in this TC and a huge number of active participants with lots of ideas. In other words our greatest strength is also our greatest weakness. So how do we move forward? 1. We have to have our charter as common ground. If there is a serious desire to challenge the tenets of what constitutes a Reference Model, that argument does not belong in this TC. That can be done elsewhere. It is out of order for this TC to do this and we need to rely on common ground to move forward. 2. Let's keep focused on the RM. 3. Let's start the RA soon. Duane
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