Fwd: [tc-announce] Proposed Charter for OASIS SOA-EERP TC

For those of you who may have missed this.

One of their deliverables is: Reference model for SOA Optimization Implementations

They do not mention SOA-RM which one would think would be a basis for their work.

Looking at the conveners, this appears to be an effort to bring in the Chinese folks that were the focus of the recent China trips by OASIS management.  That's fine but does anyone who has been working SOA know anything about this?

Ken

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From: "Mary McRae" <>

Date: May 30, 2008 11:18:51 AM EDT

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Subject: [tc-announce] Proposed Charter for OASIS SOA-EERP TC

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To OASIS Members:

  A draft TC charter has been submitted to establish the OASIS Service-Oriented

Architecture End-to-End Resource Planning (SOA-EERP) Technical Committee. In

accordance with the OASIS TC Process Policy section 2.2: 

(http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process-2008-02-05.php#formation) the

proposed charter is

hereby submitted for comment. The comment period shall remain open until 11:45pm

ET on 13 June 2008. 

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  A telephone conference will be held among the Convener, the OASIS TC

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  We encourage member comment and ask that you note the name of the proposed TC

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PROPOSED CHARTER FOR REVIEW AND COMMENT

OASIS Service-Oriented Architecture End-to-End Resource Planning (SOA-EERP) TC 

1) The Charter of the TC, which includes only the following items: 

(1)(a) The name of the TC

OASIS Service-Oriented Architecture End-to-End Resource Planning (SOA-EERP) TC

	 

(1)(b) A statement of purpose, including a definition of the problem to be

solved. 

As Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has matured as a development, deployment,

and governance paradigm, the performance of SOA deployments has received

increasing attention.

End-to-End Resource Planning (EERP) applies service discovery, composition,

simulation, and optimization techniques in a novel way to improve business

results. As the software industry has applied SOA to eBusiness deployments,

self-optimizing systems as exemplified by EERP have become more feasible and

necessary.  

Different deployments of services onto a business process have varying business 

Value. For example, a shipper might offer faster but more expensive service.

EERP models the business process and the range of potential services, then guide

the selection and deployment of services based on the overall end-to-end

business value.

Modeling the business characteristics of a service is a prerequisite for

estimating the business value of the process that uses those services; likewise,

the reliability of the service provided needs to be understood.  Finally,

establishing agreements about the business service is essential to long-term

value chain improvement.

Challenges include: 

_ The discovery, selection, assembly, and management of services supporting

business processes

_ Monitoring and evolution over time of both the set of services selected and of

the performance of the business process itself

_ Determining the varieties of optimization to be supported

The focus of the TC will be on enablers for optimization and process

improvement. Local and more global optimization of distributed business

processes should prove more effective with consistent requirements and

definitions.

References on EERP are in section (2)(h).

 (1)(c) The scope of the work of the TC.

The SOA-EERP Technical Committee will focus on enablers for optimization. The

enablers are, for example, definitions of the framework for representing the

business process service rating terms, such how to represent cost, time, value,

etc. We define "optimization" as maximizing business value by enabling improved

real-life eBusiness process and resource planning at both design time and run

time. In particular,

_ Resources are services performed by people, machines, and hardware/software

applications, and represented by SOA services. Defining the qualities of such a

business service will be done with metrics expressed as Business Quality of

Service (BQoS).  The nature of BQoS varies across industries and services.

_ Business processes are optimized in order to reduce cost, improve efficiency,

and otherwise improve business results. Extensions to Business Process

Management Notation and execution environments such as WS-BPEL will facilitate

process improvement through automatic optimization and evolution.

The TC intends to address the following to support optimization technologies.

The parenthetical notes are proposed specification names:

_ A vocabulary and model for design-time and run-time optimization

_ Business characteristics of services demanded and supplied (BQoS)

_ Business reliability and reputation of suppliers of services (WS-Rating)

_ Business service-level agreements to manage and evaluate services  (Business

SLA)

_ Such additional work as determined necessary by the TC to enable evaluation

and optimization of the business value of SOA-deployed Business Processes

_ A reference model for SOA optimization

The TC will, insofar as possible, rely on existing work.

Specific work with which the TC intends to coordinate is listed in Section

(2)(a).

 (1)(d) A list of deliverables, with projected completion dates.

Projected times are from inception, the date of the initial TC meeting.

1. Vocabulary, high level model, use cases, and requirements document (4 months

from inception)

2. Business Quality of Service specification (BQoS) (8 months from inception)

3. Service and business process extensions to BPMN, WS-BPEL, and CSA-BPEL (12

months from inception)

4. Business Reliability and Reputation specification (WS-Rating) (12 months from

inception)

5. Business Service Level Agreement specification (Business SLA) (15 months from

inception)

6. Reference model for SOA Optimization Implementations (21 months from

inception)

(1)(e) Specification of the IPR Mode under which the TC will operate.

 The TC shall operate under RF on Limited Terms 

(1)(f) The anticipated audience or users of the work.

Parties who would have interest in this work include business and government

enterprises that deploy and manage solutions which use SOA techniques and which

want to develop effective business processes and improve the performance and

agility of their solutions. 

Extensive applications of SOA-EERP techniques will likely be most cost-effective

for long-running business processes, although SOA-EERP enabling specifications

will also help in the definition and design of SOA end-to-end business

processes.  

Earlier versions of EERP, specifications for which are anticipated to be

contributed, are currently deployed in industry portals in China to facilitate

service selection and business process improvement.

(1)(g) The language in which the TC shall conduct business.

The TC will use English as the language for conducting its operations.

(2) Non-normative information regarding the startup of the TC: 

(2)(a) Identification of similar or applicable work that is being done in other

OASIS TCs or by other organizations, why there is a need for another effort in

this area and how this proposed TC will be different, and what level of liaison

will be pursued with these other organizations.

There is not currently any known work producing a coordinated set of SOA

optimization enabling specifications.  The composition of work into an EERP-like

optimization framework, together with the required support specifications, is

unique to this proposal.

The assembly and reassembly of optimized business process implementations will

leverage the OASIS Service Component Architecture, in particular the SCA

Assembly and SCA-Policy specifications.

Policy application may leverage the OASIS SCA-Policy specification.

Business Process notation and execution environments are expected to leverage

the OMG BPMN and OASIS WS-BPEL and SCA-BPEL specifications, extended to carry

BQoS information.

Business Quality of Service may leverage the WS-Quality Management (WS-QM)

project and aspects of the Universal Business Language (UBL) standards.

WS-Rating may leverage aspects of the proposed OASIS Open Reputation Management

Systems (ORMS) TC work as well as WS-QM.

The SOA-EERP TC will establish TC liaisons as needed with appropriate TCs and

working groups in other organizations, including the OASIS OpenCSA member

section or its appropriate component TCs, the OASIS ORMS TC, the OASIS WSQM TC,

the OASIS UBL TC, and the SOA-RM TC.

 (2)(b) The date, time, and location of the first meeting, whether it will be

held in person or by phone, and who will sponsor this first meeting. The first

meeting of a TC shall occur no less than 30 days after the announcement of its

formation in the case of a telephone or other electronic meeting, and no less

than 45 days after the announcement of its formation in the case of a

face-to-face meeting.

The initial meeting will be a face-to-face meeting sponsored by Nortel, with

teleconference available for those who cannot attend in person. It will be

August 5-7, 2008, at the Nortel facilities in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

(2)(c) The projected on-going meeting schedule for the year following the

formation of the TC, or until the projected date of the final deliverable,

whichever comes first, and who will be expected to sponsor these meetings.

The TC will conduct its business via weekly or biweekly teleconference calls.

The time and frequency of the call will be determined during the first meeting

of the TC. The TC will conduct F2F meetings as needed and determined by the TC.

Teleconference facilities and F2F meetings will be sponsored by the TC

participants or OASIS.

Time zone difference of participants may require flexibility in meeting times,

quorum, and subcommittees (if any); identified members to date are in East Asia

and North America.

 (2)(d) The names, electronic mail addresses, and membership affiliations of at

least Minimum Membership who support this proposal and are committed to the

Charter and projected meeting schedule.

Note: need a minimum of 5, of which at least two of which must work for OASIS 

Organizational Members.

Anyu Lee, , ChangFeng Alliance

Abbie Barbir, , Nortel

William Cox, , Cox Software Architects

James Guo, , Digital China

Alex Wang, , Beijing Sursen Co. Ltd

Kirk Yang, , Beijing Digital China Limited

Pine Zhang, , UOML Alliance

Chen XiuZhi, , Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000 Co. Ltd.

Hu GuangBin, , CE Open Source Software Co. Ltd

Jin YouBing, , Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000 Co. Ltd.

Li ChunQing, , Beijing Tong Tech Co Ltd 

Li ZiangKai, , Redflag Software Co. Ltd 

Yuan Yuan,  , CE Open Source Software Co. Ltd

Xie ZhenMo, , Redflag Software Co. Ltd

 (2)(e) The name of the Convener who must be an Eligible Person.

Anyu Lee, , ChangFeng Alliance

 (2)(f) The name of the Member Section with which the TC intends to affiliate

The SOA-EERP TC intends to affiliate with the OASIS ChangFeng Open Standards Lab

(COSL) Member Section.

 (2)(g) Optionally, a list of contributions of existing technical work that the

proposers anticipate will be made to this TC.

Beijing eBridge China: development versions of EERP and specifications.

 (2)(h) Optionally, a draft Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document regarding

the planned scope of the TC, for posting on the TC's website.

To Be Developed.

Additional information on EERP can be found in the following OASIS Symposium

presentations and tutorials:

http://www.oasis-open.org/events/symposium/2007/slides/Andy-Lee-Sunday.ppt 

http://events.oasis-open.org/home/sites/events.oasis-open.org.home/files/EERPTut

orial.ppt 

http://events.oasis-open.org/home/sites/events.oasis-open.org.home/files/ALee%20

EERP%20Portal%20Design.ppt

http://events.oasis-open.org/home/sites/events.oasis-open.org.home/files/Guo-Cha

ng%20EERP.ppt 

(2)(i) Optionally, a proposed working title and acronym for the specification(s)

to be developed by the TC. 

To Be Developed. 

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