[soa-rm] Comment on Glossary

Working Draft Editors and TC Members,

 

While recognizing the disclaimer in Appendix A of 
Working Draft 10 of the OASIS SOA-RM Specification stating that this is still a 
work in progress (and why I'm not submitting an issue to the issues list), 
I did want to share an extract of the latest SysML Partners submission of the 
Systems Modeling Language (SysML) specification to the OMG's UML for Systems 
Engineering RFP on this very subject.  The passage in the spec reads 
as follows:

 

"Note: SysML v. 0.9 reviewer feedback found the 
previous version of this glossary to contain many definitions that were not 
meaningful to practicing system engineers, and numerous others that were 
inconsistent with the normative part of this specification, as well as itself. 
Consequently, the glossary is being rewritten so that all definitions will be 
meaningful to domain experts, and are consistent with the rest of the 
specification. The updated glossary will be included in the SysML v. 1.0 beta 
update."

 

Other specification communities are clearly 
struggling with this very issue and this is just another 
example.  I thought I would share this in an attempt to help us 
reconcile the contents of Appendix A prior to community review (and formal 
ratification).

 

Regards...

 

 - Jeff Estefan, 
JPL