Draft Agenda for Wednesday June 15 - revision 1

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

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Draft Agenda:

1. Welcome, Roll call & determination of quorum - secretary
2. Note taker appointed (those who have volunteered in the past are excused)
3. Approval of minutes from last meeting (or suggested changes if any).
4. Procedure Items:
    - discussion (possible vote) to allow motions to be made 
electronically between official meetings via the list server.
5. Action items from last meeting:
    - update on Vancouver meeting - Chair.
       We have one proposal for a very trendy hotel in Yaletown.  Opus 
is a big high end and cool (REM stayed there when they recorded their 
last CD, so do many movie people and other musicians).  It is in the 
restaurant and bar district and very near the water.  The prices will be 
available at the conference call.  We may need to confirm by Friday.
    - London for next face to face (Peter Brown proposed)
6.Technical discussions:
    - Peter to introduce Motion on SC (motion, second, discussion, vote 
or electronic vote) See Reference 1 below:
    - Figure 2-1 - use the graphic from Matt for next revision.  Do we 
do this then allow only specific comments to it.  This means that we 
worry about the final expression later, just use it as placeholder to 
scope the RM properly.
8. Editing Team Report (Editors - please chose one of you to give a 
report and lead the discussion)
   - status of comments disposition
   - (ADD HERE) any specific set of proposed dispositions you feel can 
be quickly resolved.
9. Other (time permitting).

If I have missed something, please send me a message privately.

Duane
 

Reference One:

My motion is:
Given the debate in the TC regarding the correct scoping of the proposed
Reference Model, I move that the TC agree that the concept of 'service
customer' shall not be considered an a normative concept within scope of the
RM. Further discussion of this concept shall be pursued only on this basis
and may be used indicatively in any illustrative appendix to the RM or in
subsequent work on reference architectures but shall not be included as a
normative part of the reference model.

Rationale:
I fear we are running ahead of ourselves and sometimes running in circles. I
see the importance and relevance of concepts such as consumer, message, etc.
to building actual SOA architectures, but - after following the exchanges on
the list in the last weeks on this and related issues - I now feel that this
concept is distracting or attention and risks taking further bandwidth.

Comments:
- I think that if the TC can focus its attention on this motion for a couple
of days, we can nail down a key issue that will also help us all clarify the
scope of the RM.
- I would also suggest (this is not a motion!) that at the next TC confcall,
an item for discussion could be whether it would be useful to establish an
RA sub-cttee already/soon that could serve to channel some of these
discussions without shutting them down.