RE: [soa-rm] Fwd: Users of SOA Refrence Model or Architecture?

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Thanks for clarification and update, Martin,

Cheers,
Rex

At 12:40 PM -0500 3/1/09, Smith, Martin wrote:
>Ken -- The GLOBAL Justice Information Sharing Initiative (GLOBAL) 
>has three related technology projects that together are setting 
>standards and providing implementation guidance for 
>cross-organizational information sharing standards in the national 
>justice and public-safety community (that is State and city police 
>departments, courts, emergency management orgs, etc.)  The 
>Departments of Justice and Homeland Security are actively supporting 
>these efforts.
>
>They are:
>
>National Information Exchange Model (originally sponsored by GLOBAL 
>as GJXDM and then gone broader in the Federal community in 
>partnership with DHS and other agencies.) This is a metadata 
>framework that has produced a large number of "IEPDs" -- XML 
>documents defining standard data exchanges with a specific line of 
>business (e.g., an arrest report.) (NIEM is an alternative to the 
>EBXML framework.)
>
>The GLOBAL Federated Identity and Privilege Management (GFIPM) 
>project, which is a "trust framework" based on SAML/SHIB standards, 
>with an emphasis on the authorization part of access control and 
>federation; it uses the NIEM framework to define data elements in 
>SAML exchanges (which implements complex types for attributes.)
>
>The Justice Reference Architecture (JRA), which is pretty strictly 
>modeled on SOA-RM and -RA, but profiled for Web-services exchanges 
>(of NIEM IEPDs) in the State & local justice environment.
>
>I think you might be familar with these efforts (or at least JRA) 
>since I believe there is some overlap in membership between the JRA 
>project and the OASIS SOA-RM TC.
>
>A link:  http://it.ojp.gov/default.aspx?area=nationalInitiatives 
><https://dhshqowa.dhsnet.ds1.dhs/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://it.ojp.gov/default.aspx?area=nationalInitiatives>
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Martin
>
>
>Martin F. Smith
>Branch Chief, National Security Systems
>DHS/I&A/IM
>202 447-3743 desk
>202 441-9731 cell
>888 272-3610 pager
>
>________________________________
>
>From: soa-rm-return-545-martin.smith=dhs.gov@lists.oasis-open.org on 
>behalf of Rex Brooks
>Sent: Sun 3/1/2009 11:30 AM
>To: Ken Laskey; soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: Re: [soa-rm] Fwd: Users of SOA Refrence Model or Architecture?
>
>
>
>Hi Ken,
>
>DoJ Reference Architecture based on RM.
>
>I suspect they will update based on the RA, but don't know that for
>ssure without contacting the folks there. That's not currently on my
>to-do list, but I could add that. The main task I was on is going to
>its 60-Day Public Review, so I have a breather for a couple of weeks.
>
>I will be using the parts of the RA that interest me most for work in
>the Emergency Management TC including:
>Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL)  Reference Information Model
>(EDXL-RIM) specifications, which are abstracted from components of
>existing EDXL specifications to be guidance blueprints for revisions
>and future new specifications and which will include ontological
>representations:
>EDXL Distribution Element (EDXL-DE) including next revision 1.1;
>EDXL Hospital AVailability Exchange (EDXL-HAVE) next revisions,
>including errata;
>EDXL Resource Messaging (EDXL-RM)  next revisions, including errata;
>
>EDXL-RIM will then be a set of blueprints for the various features of
>the family of specifications, both for revisions to the existing
>members above and the next members of the family:
>EDXL-Situation Reporting (EDXL-SR) (due for submission end of March)
>EDXL-Patient Tracking (EDXL-PT) (not anticipated till mid-09).
>
>We will eventually take on the next full version of the Common
>Alerting Protocol (CAP) 2.0 which include some accommodation to EDXL,
>particularly EDXL-DE.
>
>If I was working in the various Web Services TCs, I would recommend
>that they schedule work on revisions that would bring them into clear
>alignment with the RM and RA. But that's just me.
>
>Cheers,
>Rex
>
>At 9:34 PM -0500 2/28/09, Ken Laskey wrote:
>>I figured I'd pass this along in hopes of getting a more
>>comprehensive list that I would tally myself.  Send to me and I'll
>>collate and cc this list on the results.
>>
>>Ken
>>
>>
>>Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>>From: "Huhns, Michael" <<mailto:huhns@cec.sc.edu>huhns@cec.sc.edu>
>>>Date: February 28, 2009 6:16:28 PM EST
>>>To: "Laskey, Ken" <<mailto:klaskey@mitre.org>klaskey@mitre.org>
>>>Subject: Users of SOA Refrence Model or Architecture?
>>>
>>>Hi Ken,
>>>
>>>My colleagues and I working on services and agents at the
>>>University of South Carolina are very impressed with the SOA
>>>Reference Model and Reference Architecture that you have helped
>>>produce.
>>>
>>>Do you know of any organizations, individuals, or agencies that
>>>have implemented systems based on your Reference Model and
>>>Architecture?  I am planning to recommend that my university adopt
>>>your Model and Architecture to guide the development and deployment
>>>of its services, and it would nice if I could point to some success
>>>stories or even just strong interest.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Mike Huhns
>>>
>>
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>
>
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