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

Jeff at al,

You may be glad to hear that I have actually had the exact opposite experience. I was at the OMG MDA/SOA/Web Services conference here in the DC area all day yesterday, and I had several people come up to me with compliments on our work (I mentioned it during a 3.5 hour session on MDA and SOA). In fact, one person is interested in creating an OWL ontology to represent our RM.

I think the issue here might be that you were at a very specific event in terms of domain (Ground Systems), while if one looks at the types of events/audiences that would most care about our work, the picture is quite different.

I also communicated our CD to the worldwide XML community via XML-DEV several months ago, to very positive reviews (as you saw on this list).

So I would say that yes, greater exposure is always needed (couldn't hurt), but I actually believe that we are doing very, very well in terms of that.

My $.02,

Joe

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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