Re: [soa-rm] Greater SOA-RM Visibility is Needed!

["Ram Kumar" <ram.kumar@oasis-open.org>]

Hi Jeffrey,

 

OASIS TCs are encouraged to promote its work.  If you need to know about the

policies of OASIS around communicating with the media on OASIS work,

have a look at:

 

http://www.oasis-open.org/news/media_relations_policy.php

 

If you need any further information, please feel free to contact me.

 

Regards,

 

Ram 

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  ----- Original Message -----

From: Jeffrey A Estefan

To: soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org

Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:31 AM

Subject: [soa-rm] Greater SOA-RM Visibility is Needed!

Duane and the SOA-RM TC,

 

I'm attending the Ground System Architectures Workshop (GSAW) in L.A. this week and just this morning, I sat through a number of talks describing SOA in general and SOA in the context of ground system architectures for space data systems.  There was a great deal of discussion surrounding SOA and Web Services and unfortunately, not enough about distinguishing between the two (i.e., architectural style vs. technology).  The only references to OASIS were with respect to various WS-* specs.  I was even more disheartened to hear one speaker state explicitly during his talk (and captured as a bullet) that "no standards-based reference model exists for SOA."  Of course, I had to set the record straight during the Q&A following this speaker's presentation, and was promptly approached by many in the audience asking where they could find a copy of the SOA-RM Public Draft!

 

My point is that each and every speaker this morning used a different lexicon for defining SOA and none of them acknowledged or even made reference to the OASIS SOA-RM.  I think we need to do some better job marketing this work.  Do the OASIS By-Laws allow us to do this?  We [this body of work] needs much more visibility whether in various industry rags, user group forums, consortia, etc.   This is particularly true in the Government contexts (i.e., Military, Civil, and Intel space communities) that I witnessed today.

 

Would like to hear your thoughts on how we might address this problem.

 

Regards...

 

 - Jeff Estefan, JPL