Re: [soa-rm] thoughts on 1 March telecom minutes

[Michael Stiefel <development@reliablesoftware.com>]

Wouldn't it be the capability of being realized because the RA is an 
abstract architecture?

Michael

At 11:59 PM 3/4/2006, Francis McCabe wrote:
>Realization in this context means realizing the reference
>architecture as a concrete architecture.
>Frank
>
>On Mar 4, 2006, at 8:07 PM, Michael Stiefel wrote:
>
>>I am not sure what the term "realization" refers to. Is this the
>>ability to be instantiated?  This would come from the RM's notion
>>of real world effect.  A RA must be capable of being implemented.
>>
>>Michael
>>
>>At 01:55 AM 3/3/2006, Ken Laskey wrote:
>>>I really resonate with the quote attributed to Frank:
>>>
>>>Infrastructure has a set of requirements at the bottom of the RA.
>>>A metric for the right level of abstraction is to identify points
>>>of management, points of action, points of decision, etc. and say
>>>this is where the requirement management shows up in the abstract
>>>architecture.
>>>
>>>I think the RA Topic List
>>>
>>>RA Topic List: Interoperability, life cycle, standards, policy,
>>>management, security, QoS, realization, capabilities, discovery,
>>>interaction, service composition, configuration (part of
>>>management), resources, description, information model, management
>>>of meta data, versioning, deployment
>>>
>>>is a set of requirements on an RA and the purpose of an RA (and
>>>more detailed architectures) is to show how you satisfy those
>>>requirements.  So we appreciate the need for life cycle and the
>>>question of the architecture is how does it support life cycle
>>>concept.  The RA should not itself define life cycle beyond what
>>>is necessary to describe the requirement being satisfied.
>>>
>>>Ken
>>>
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