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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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