RE: [saf] review of Educational powerpoint

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Hi
Jeff,

 

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1.      
    The first six slides do not clearly differentiate SAF from (yet
    another) CEP/Workflow.  The remaining slides, however, do a great
    job of differentiation.  Would recommend starting with slide 7, and
    moving the first 6 slides to the back of the deck. 

  
 It's a
  good idea to start with the problem setting, but then in the cartoon slides we
  use terms that haven't been defined yet (Diagnostician, Practitioner, etc). So
  this is problematic...

  
[Vaught,
  Jeffrey A] I’m worried that readers will already be convinced about SAF (that
  it is just another rules framework) before getting to slide 7. 
  Diagnostician & Practitioner terms don’t really need defining.  It is
  obvious from the medical analogy. 

 I share
your concerns Jeff and I agree with starting with the problem first. However, I
do not think all the stuff in the following slides are self-explanatory or
obvious. I run through the slides internally with some colleagues and got some
expected questions: confusion of Protocol with communication etc protocols; what
is the Catalogue? Is it an index? Is it a service catalogue? And various other
similar questions. So we need to work on how to present and set those terms in
context if we follow this approach (which as I said I agree we should
follow).

 

Cheers,

 

Stavros

 

  
    
2.      
    Slide 3 explains Symptom, Syndrome, Protocol, and Prescription. 
    It would be good to articulate that these entities are primarily envelopes
    for events, rules, action templates, and actions.  Thus we aren’t re-inventing
    BPEL, RuleML, etc. 

  
+1

  
    
3.      
    The “cartoon” slides are great, but missing two important
    pieces:

    
a.      
    The provider is likely to provide Symptoms (and thus contribute
    Syndromes to the catalog).  The Symptoms would generally describe
    service notifications such as “service will be out for maintenance”, or
    “unplanned outage”, etc. 

  
I
  agree with this as well. But then it might get bloated,
  no? 

  
    
b.     
    There is no discussion of composability.  The consumer would
    typically compose Syndromes from other syndromes (contributed from various
    sources) and also “glue” Syndromes to Protocols.  In my opinion – composability of
    diverse syndromes/protocols is the key differentiator for
    SAF. 

  
 This
  is also interesting but very difficult to depict properly I think! Open to
  suggestions.

  
[Vaught, Jeffrey A] I’ll give this an attempt.  I
  think this is critical to depict.

  
    
4.      
    Getting nitpicky, but slide 23 is titled “Collaborations”, and I
    initially thought it was describing SAF catalog collaborations. 

  
 :-) Do
  you want to rewrite the title? Jeff has the pen!

  
[Vaught, Jeffrey A] Yes – this slide is a call for TC
  members.

  
 

  
Cheers,

  
 

  
Stavros

  

  
    
    

      
        
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