Re: [soa-rm] Resolution for Issue #519 (Rev 2)

["Jeffrey A Estefan" <Jeffrey.A.Estefan@jpl.nasa.gov>]

Team,

Here is a slightly revised response to Issue #519 based on my comments from
yesterday's note.  Only the explanatory note has been updated.  Spreadsheet
entry also attached.

 - Jeff

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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_IEC_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 currently 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-RA 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.

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