RE: [soa-rm] 08 draft publicly available

[Robin Cover <robin@oasis-open.org>]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Chiusano Joseph wrote:

> My understanding is that all drafts are supposed to be publicly
> available, per OASIS policy. But Duane and/or Jamie can confirm for us.

Indeed, Jamie Clark can confirm this, or one can inspect the TC Process.

Not just "all drafts".  OASIS TC Process (2.8) "Visibility" specifies:

"All web pages, documents, ballot results and email archives of all TCs 
and SCs shall be publicly visible."

In other words, working in OASIS TCs means transparency, openness,
and visibility to the public.  It's part of accountability and
auditability -- as opposed to some standards venues in which the
public cannot see what's being done, as it's being done in the
back room, by the pay-for-play players: at OASIS, it is generally 
pay-to-play [modulo public feedback channels] but NOT pay-to-see.

It's unfortunate [IMO] that the default setting on the Kavi tool
makes it so easy for people to forget to ensure that materials
uploaded into Kavi are accessible at a publicly-visible URI.  What
often gets published in email to the list is a URI like:

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/soa-rm/download.php/14353/wd-soa-rm-08.pdf

which the "public" cannot see unless the public-person knows how to
rewrite the URI to:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/14353/wd-soa-rm-08.pdf

Hope this helps,

[completely unofficially]

Robin Cover
XML Cover Pages
http://xml.coverpages.org/

PS  Having noted Joe Chiusano's "-08, great job" and remembering that I 
had made a public reference to the Semantion FERA-based SOA Information
Model, I wanted to ensure that the SO-RM TC's work was adequately known

... Semantion FERA-based SOA Information Model and its
reference architecture -- "The main components of the FERA reference 
architecture are: federates, interfaces, and SOA Federation. Each 
participant involved in the collaboration is called a federate. Federates 
can be systems or people..."

http://xml.coverpages.org/soa.html#Semantion

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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ken Laskey [mailto:klaskey@mitre.org] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:17 PM
> > To: SOA-RM
> > Subject: [soa-rm] 08 draft publicly available
> > 
> > Someone sent me the following
> > 
> > Reference Model for Service Oriented Architectures.
> > by
> > OASIS SOA Reference Model TC, Working Draft 08
> > 
> > This Service Oriented Architecture Reference Model is an 
> > abstract framework for understanding significant entities and 
> > relationships amongst them within a service-oriented 
> > environment, and for the development of consistent standards 
> > or specifications supporting that environment. It is based on 
> > unifying concepts of SOA and may be used by architects 
> > developing specific services oriented architectures or for 
> > education and explaining SOA. 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.
> > http://xml.coverpages.org/soa.html#SOA-RM-WD08
> > http://xml.coverpages.org/SOA-RM-WD08.pdf
> > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/soa-rm/
> > 
> > where the pdf link is our 08 draft.  I was under the 
> > impression that we were not supposed to be handing out draft 
> > that were not intended for public review.  Am I mistaken?
> > 
> > Ken
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