Re: [soa-rm] Service Consumer in RM or not?

[John Harby <jharby@gmail.com>]

The difficult aspect is that everyone and their brother is now used to
the SOA buzzword. If we start inventing more do we run the risk of
confusing the audiences and losing adoption?

On 6/8/05, Francis McCabe <fgm@fla.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> Since SOA was itself a buzz word invented by an analyst, perhaps we
> can also coin a new buzzword :)
> Frank
> 
> On Jun 7, 2005, at 12:52 PM, Duane Nickull wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Chiusano Joseph wrote:
> >
> >
> >> - A Service Orientation Reference Model (SO RM) - that is, don't
> >> label this as "SOA RM" but rather "SO RM"
> >> - A SOA Reference Architecture (SOA RA)
> >>  rather than a single SOA Reference Model (SOA RM).
> >>
> >>
> > Joseph:
> >
> > Our intent (as expressed in our charter) has always been to do
> > this.  The only difference is the change of the name from SOA RM to
> > SO RM.
> >
> > Pro of renaming to SO RM:
> >
> > - more accurate reflection of what it really is.
> >
> > Con of renaming to SO RM:
> >
> > - losing the correlation with SOA.  We are trying to define SOA.
> > If we change the name, it may be perceived as defining something
> > different which means we are in the same place as we started when
> > we finish.
> > - People may not reconcile the work with SOA which is the primary
> > goal of the TC
> >
> > If there is a desire to explore this further, I would ask that
> > someone who is a voting member please ask that this be put up for a
> > web ballot.
> >
> > Duane
> >
> 
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