I
have 2 specific recommendations:
1) create a standard presentation of the SOA-RM that folks on the TC
could re-use. Maybe based on merging the one Ken just did with
the one that Rebekah and Joe are going to do sometime in
April.
2) Add a link to the TC page for people to post requests for
presentations - then, if a TC member is willing and able they can brief the
RM.
Jeff,
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
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