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This is why I did a morning long presentation for MITRE and had people bring their sponsors. Most people aren't aware of and don't go out of their way to follow what goes on in standards development organizations (SDOs) and I usually have to explain what OASIS is and what is a Technical Committee. (I have to do the same when talking about IETF, W3C, ... .) Part of the effort is to get it into the horizon of "experts" writing articles and for us to plug it whenever we are in a new venue.
Other than that, I don't know where there is other magic.
Ken On Mar 28, 2006, at 7:31 PM, Jeffrey A Estefan wrote: 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
--- Ken Laskey MITRE Corporation, M/S H305 phone: 703-983-7934 7515 Colshire Drive fax: 703-983-1379 McLean VA 22102-7508
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