RE: [soa-rm] SOA-RM 1.1 - and then 2.0?

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

Peter,

I would like to very respectfully offer an alternate view: I do in fact
believe that reference models have versions. In fact, the US federal
government has expressed (informally, through federal folks mentioning
at conferences, etc.) that there will be future versions of the FEA Data
Reference Model (DRM), for example (and as someone who was heavily
involved in the 2.0 version, I can say that I am very certain that this
will happen in the next few years). I see "[some reference model] v1.1"
as distinct from "SOA 1.1" (or 2.0, etc.).

Of course, now folks are talking about Web 3.0 as being the Semantic
Web+...

Joe

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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter F Brown [mailto:peter@justbrown.net] 
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 12:49 PM
To: soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [soa-rm] SOA-RM 1.1 - and then 2.0?

<rant>
I saw a couple of worrying references to a 1.1 version of the RM, in the
discussion around the one dissenting vote on the proposed move to a
standard...

Most of us lambasted Gartner for their SOA 2.0 hype, and I think we
should be careful: a reference model by definition, imho, does not
*have* versions: it's *the* reference, not a reference... We need some
stability in this mad world ;-)

Maybe I'm just allergic to the average developer's approach that all the
missed bits will appear in the next release cycle but I think we'd be
playing with fire to try that with the RM.

If there was something wrong or missing, we would have spotted it by
now, we've been through enough cycles on this.
If there really *is* something wrong or missing, we should rectify the
RM by a revision note or correction, but steer way clear of versions...

Please, can we avoid *any* hints about a 1.1 (heaven help us, a 2.0) and
just STFU on the issue?
</rant>

Peter

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