Re: [soa-rm] change of SOA-RM TC chair and quarterly meeting

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Thanks Ken,

Appreciated.

Cheers,
Rex

Ken Laskey wrote:
> Dear SOA-RM community,
>
> Duane Nickull has undertaken new responsibilities for his day job at 
> Adobe and felt he could no longer devote the attention necessary for a 
> TC chair.  Under his leadership, the TC turned the idea of a SOA 
> reference model into an OASIS standard in 18 months -- light speed in 
> standards development terms.  A big "thank you" goes to Duane from all 
> of us, and a welcome to the ranks of Voting Member (because the chair 
> does not vote except to break ties).
>
> That leads to the need for a new chair and during the meeting on 21 
> October 2009, I was chosen to fill that position.  Our major work 
> product, the Reference Architecture Foundation for SOA, remains the 
> same and continues to be chaired by Frank McCabe.  For those of you 
> who have not been following the details of the RA work, you will note 
> a slight change with the addition of "Foundation" to the title of the 
> spec as a result of our discussions with OMG and The Open Group.  
>
> There has also been separate discussion of taking on a more concrete 
> example of using the RA, but that is still in the earliest discussion 
> stages.  
>
> The fact that such changes have or may occur fits in well with another 
> discussion point at the 21 October meeting:  we should hold regular 
> quarterly RM meetings to provide updates to RM members who are not 
> members of the RA TC.  Scheduling such meetings in advance will allow 
> interested RM members to get a date on their calendars for a focused 
> status on the work, a summary of what has been accomplished in the 
> previous quarter, and what are the plans for the quarter to follow. 
>  It will also make it easier for members to meet attendance 
> requirements to gain or retain voting member status.
>
> For the RM meeting, we chose (somewhat arbitrarily) the third 
> Wednesday of the calendar quarter at the time of the usual RA meeting. 
>  *The first quarterly RA meeting will then be 20 January 2010* and you 
> will receive an email notice when I get that on the OASIS calendar. 
>  The quarterly RM meeting will last no more than 90 minutes, and if it 
> finishes sufficiently early, the RA subcommittee will make use of the 
> remaining time.
>
> More immediately, there should be an announcement shortly of a second 
> public review for the RA spec.  If there are questions on this or 
> anything else before the January meeting, feel free to contact me or 
> send you questions/comments to the list.  
>
> Ken
>
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