RE: [soa-rm] Resolution for Issue #519

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

I have 2 comments:

(1) Change "and the RM-ODP Architecture standards to the OASIS SOA-RM
emerging standard, respectively." to "and the RM-ODP Architecture
standards to the work of the OASIS SOA-RA SC, respectively." (should
refer to the RA SC)

(2) Rather than take the "we will be referencing it" approach as we have
done in our response below, should we perhaps consider that RM-ODP uses
an object-oriented approach, while we do not, and state that we
recognize that these fundamental differences in the reference models
will make it very difficult for us to leverage anything from RM-ODP?

Joe

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey A Estefan [mailto:Jeffrey.A.Estefan@jpl.nasa.gov] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 10:35 PM
To: soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [soa-rm] Resolution for Issue #519

Issue:
"I would strongly urge you to both consider and refer to the RM-ODP as
you develop the SOA-RM, as much of the territory you are entering has
been explored there quite exhaustively.  I would view SOA-RM as a
spcialization of the concepts presented there. Some good starting
points:
http://www.dstc.edu.au/Research/Projects/ODP/standards.html
http://www.lcc.uma.es/~av/RM-ODP/
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c020696_ISO_IE
C_10746-1_1998(E).zip"

Proposed Resolution:
No change to text;
Explanatory note to submitter:

"The OASIS SOA-RM Technical Committee (TC) recognizes the excellent body
of work for joint standardization of open distributed processing by the
International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU-T) that resulted in the Reference Model of
Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP).  The scope of three of the four
basic International Standards that comprise the RM-ODP can loosely be
mapped to the work current being carried out by the OASIS SOA-RM TC and
its Reference Architecture Subcommittee (SOA-RA SC).  Specifically, the
RM-ODP Overview and Architectural Semantics standards to the OASIS
SOA-RM emerging standard, and the RM-ODP Architecture standards to the
OASIS SOA-RM emerging standard, respectively.  Work by the OASIS SOA-RA
SC will be reviewing the applicability of the RM-ODP standards for open
distributed processing to service-orientation, particularly with respect
to infrastructure.  In addition, the SOA-RA SC fully expects to exploit
the RM-ODP concept of "viewpoints;" however, it will do so in concert
with the more recent ANSI/IEEE 1471-2000 Std. that formalizes the
concept of "views" in addition to viewpoints; both of which are integral
to describing software-intensive architectures.  The remaining RM-ODP
International Standard that needs further exploration by the SOA-RM TC
and SOA-RA SC is the Foundations standard that provides the analytical
framework for normalized description of arbitrary distributed processing
systems.  As mentioned before, such exploration will need to be
conducted in a "service-oriented" context."

Jeff

Note that I've also added the explanatory note to the Issues spreadsheet
under a new Column "I" entry (see attached).