RE: Example Statement of Use

["Lipton, Paul C" <Paul.Lipton@ca.com>]

Hi all,

Sorry to ping you all on this once again. I am still being schooled on the fine points of SoU by the ever-helpful OASIS staff. One more clarification regarding your SoU, if I may. Your SoU MUST indicate one way or the other if you did the interoperation with another independent implementation. In short, please select the nicely crafted words in either A OR B for the end of your SoU:

[A) ] This successful use/implementation included the interoperation of multiple independent implementations
[B) ] This successful use/implementation did not include the interoperation of multiple independent implementations

Thanks,
Paul 



-----Original Message-----
From: Lipton, Paul C 
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 10:20 PM
To: tosca@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: Simon D Moser (SMOSER@de.ibm.com)
Subject: RE: Example Statement of Use

Hi all,

Just to reiterate the clarification that I shared verbally in the TC meeting of March 7th regarding an additional statement that can  be appended at the end of your statement of work, a statement like: "This implementation has been used with other independent implementations," OASIS does actually require you to consider in your SoU whether you have tested with other independent implementations or not. If so, you are required to add a statement similar to the above to the SoU. If you have not done such testing, you can omit such a statement. 

Please see the minutes of our March 7th meeting for more information and feel free to ping Simon and me should you have any questions, as well. 

By the way, it would be helpful to our planning if you could drop us a line if you think it possible that you might submit an SoU within the next several weeks. 

Thanks,
Paul 



-----Original Message-----
From: Lipton, Paul C 
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 11:59 PM
To: tosca@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Example Statement of Use

Hi all,

As an action item, I promised to share a "template" of a Statement of Use (SoU). As you remember from past conversations, presuming that the TC approves the special ballot to advance the specification to Committee Spec over the next couple of weeks, we may find soon afterwards find that we would like to submit that Committee Specification to the OASIS Membership. 

As part of the requirements, we will need to have at least 3 SoU and will need to agree to a deadline for accepting these SoU, please consider this a "heads-up." The TC must approve by resolution each SoU as acceptable. When issued by an OASIS Organizational Member, a SoU must be endorsed by that member's Primary Representative. 

Here's an example:

To Whom it May Concern,
 The XXX Corporation is successfully using the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) Version 1.0 Committee Specification 01 as approved on DATE in accordance with the mandatory conformance clauses specified therein and OASIS policy. 

NOTE: This phrase to commonly appended, but if you have not tested against other implementations, then I don't think it's required: "This implementation has been used with other independent implementations." 

Thanks,
Paul