Hi,
I attach for information a document from the SC38 secretariat concerning the future structure of the SC (please, not for redistribution).
Martin Chapman is in copy, both as a fellow OASIS Board member but also because he shares with Ken and me, a role as a liaison between OASIS and SC38.
As you can see, the proposed shift of focus is from “distributed systems” to cloud computing. In this new scenario, SOA becomes something of an architectural underpinning and paradigm for cloud, which makes sense.
So a question to tax our brains a little before the weekend:
If SOA concerns a paradigm of service delivery across ownership boundaries, then presumably anything, everything, beyond one’s own domain, is necessarily “cloud”?
All cloud architectures are arguably SOA (if you take the paradigmatic approach of the OASIS work at least) but can we think of *any* SOA ecosystem that is anything more than cloud? What?
If so, then I think we need to make the case against the shift of scope of the SC as there would be no home, in theory, for any non-cloud SOA work in the future. FWIW, I’m good with the approach proposed and actually think that our RAF
may even fit better in this new arrangement – but I don’t want to jump the gun.
Martin, we haven’t talked about this but happy to hear any other views. Also whether we want to look for opinions from other TCs, more squarely in the existing cloud scope.
Regards,
Peter
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