Re: [soa-rm] [soa-ra] Notes from telcon on 2/1/06

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Sorry I missed this. One too many things to squeeze into this week's schedule.

However, this is the part of the committee's work with which I am 
most concerned personally, so I will find a way to fit it in.

Regards,
Rex

At 10:14 AM -0800 2/1/06, Frank McCabe wrote:
>Since this was not an official formal meeting, we did not take 
>formal official minutes :)
>
>However, a summary of the results of the meeting is:
>
>Attendees:
>
>Theo Beack
>Duane Nickull
>Joe Chiusano
>Michael Stiefel
>Al Brown
>Danny Thornton
>Greg Kohring
>Ken Laskey
>Jeff Estefan
>Frank McCabe
>
>The name of the new committee will be: The OASIS Service Oriented 
>Architecture Reference Architecture Sub-TC
>
>The purpose will be: To develop one or more Reference Architectures 
>for SOA based on the current SOA RM (versions 1 and later as 
>appropriate).
>
>The deliverables will be: One or more specification documents 
>containing descriptions of the Reference Architecture(s).
>
>The chair will be: Frank McCabe
>
>Process:
>
>We will use an official OASIS email list, together with a WIKI and a 
>folder in KAVI for documents and other artifacts associated with the 
>work.
>We will have regular telephone conferences, alternating with the SOA 
>RM TC every other week. (I.e. every other Wednesday, on those weeks 
>where the SOA RM TC is not meeting)
>
>Technical Discussions:
>
>There was a wide ranging discussion about many topics; including 
>issues about the scope of the RA, whether it includes POA, BPM etc. 
>how concrete it should be, whether issues involving migration from 
>stovepipe systems to service markets was included, and so on.
>
>There was some thought about what an Reference Architecture actually 
>is. This will probably evolve some, but in essence it seems that it 
>is an architectural design pattern; with, of course, a focus for us 
>on architecting SOAs.
>
>We will need to evolve a set of requirements. This process will be 
>critical in determining if we need more than one RA.


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