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

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Having faced this same challenge several times now, I will see if 
there is a good opportunity to speak about leveraging the new Federal 
CIO Council-sponsored SOA Community of Practice (SOACoP), and nudging 
that group to look seriously at our work. Actually, we have a few 
strategies we can choose from, and I will also be doing a follow-up 
report about our work as an extension of a large series of reports I 
did in DM Review last year on Enterprise Architecture (EA) and SOA. 
The first conference on SOA for E-Government sponsored by the SOACoP 
has already issued a Call for Papers/Presentations and a couple of us 
have said we would be answering that call. Joe Chiusano has already 
done some similar work which captures our efforts and I am sure there 
will be more.

It is more a case of just plugging away at it until it becomes 
unavoidable, especially by those who have a good reason to avoid 
us.Those are the ensemble of companies whose efforts are both 
proprietary and wrapped around either the "Enterprise Service Bus" 
concept or the "Service-Oriented Architecture Fabric" idea. While in 
reality, both are variations on the same theme as the RM, they and 
their ilk seek to "own" the concept, but I doubt that they can do 
much more than muddy the waters.

Regards,
Rex

At 8:50 PM -0500 3/28/06, Ken Laskey wrote:
>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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