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Subject: RE: [soa-rm] Public Review Comment
Don, Miko: If Miko wants to do this, he needs to follow the OASIS process. I am sure he is aware of this given he is a TC chair as well. Alternatively - we could discuss it on an informal basis in the TC, after which Miko is welcome to still enter a comment if he wishes to. It is Miko's decision how he wants to proceed. Miko? D ******************************* Adobe Systems, Inc. - http://www.adobe.com Vice Chair - UN/CEFACT http://www.uncefact.org/ Chair - OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee Personal Blog - http://technoracle.blogspot.com/ ******************************* -----Original Message----- From: Don Flinn [mailto:flinn@alum.mit.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 6:59 AM To: Miko Matsumura Cc: Duane Nickull; soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [soa-rm] Public Review Comment Miko Do you want me to include this in the Public Comments Issues list or is this something for discussion on the RM e-mail list? I have been taking comments from the Public Comments section for inclusion in the official Issues List. I will be happy to include this in the Issues List if that is your intent. Thanks Don On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 06:26 -0800, Miko Matsumura wrote: > Hi folks. > > I have a comment on this section: > A service is opaque in that its implementation is typically hidden from the service consumer 273 > > except for (1) the information and behavior models exposed through the service interface and (2) 274 > > the information required by service consumers to determine whether a given service is 275 > > appropriate for their needs. 276 > > I am curious about this definition because it appears to exclude in the definition of the service description any additional information used by service providers for the purpose of maintaining a service. This is just one example of a purpose and a constituency which does not appear to be sufficiently served by this definition. In my experience, services are "viewed" by a diverse set of provider and consumer constituencies which each require information about the service implementation. An example would be lifecycle management of a service from the perspective of a service provider. Or would this be viewed as a part of the implementation? In this case, substantial metadata description is needed within the implementation. > > It is also referred to in an earlier section here: > > In general, entities (people and organizations) offer capabilities and act as service providers. 172 > > Those with needs who make use of services are referred to as service consumers. The service 173 > > description allows prospective consumers to decide if the service is suitable for their current 174 > > needs and establishes whether a consumer satisfies any requirements of the service provider. 175 > > Services are wonderfully opaque. This is good stuff. Abstracting away the implementation is one of the benefits and provides a degree of commoditization of the implementation. Very handy. However, in practice, dealing with services requires a great deal of service description --only some of which is targeted at service consumers. > > One interpretation is that you could define, for example, someone who is a member of the provider organization, but who is managing the promotion of a service from development stage to production as a "service consumer" in that they are "making use" of the service, and modifying . But I think this definition is a little awkward > > Thoughts? > > Miko > -- Don Flinn President, Flint Security LLC Tel: 781-856-7230 Fax: 781-631-7693 e-mail: flinn@alum.mit.edu http://flintsecurity.com
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