60-day Public Review for OASIS Reference Architecture Foundation for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA-RAF)

The OASIS SOA Reference Model TC [1] members have recently approved a  
Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification for  
60-day public review:

Reference Architecture Foundation for Service Oriented Architecture  
Version 1.0

Committee Specification Draft 03 / Public Review Draft 02

06 July 2011 

Specification Overview:

This document specifies the OASIS Reference Architecture Foundation for

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA-RAF). It follows from the concepts and  
relationships defined in the OASIS Reference Model for Service Oriented  
Architecture. While it remains abstract in nature, the current document  
describes the foundation upon which specific SOA concrete architectures can  
be built. 

The focus of the SOA-RAF is on an approach to integrating business with  
the information technology needed to support it. These issues are always  
present but are all the more important when business integration involves  
crossing ownership boundaries. 

The SOA-RAF follows the recommended practice of describing architecture in  
terms of models, views, and viewpoints, as prescribed in the ANSI /IEEE  
1471-2000, (now ISO /IEC 42010-2007) Standard. The SOA-RAF is of value to  
Enterprise Architects, Business and IT Architects as well as CIOs and other  
senior executives involved in strategic business and IT planning. 

TC Description:

The OASIS Service Oriented Architecture TC was constituted to develop a

Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA-RM). This is primarily  
to address SOA being used as a term in many contexts and specific technology  
implementations, sometimes with differing - or worse, conflicting -  
understandings of implicit terminology and components. The Reference Model,  
which became an OASIS Standard, has provided

a common layer of understanding about what is SOA. The continuing work on the  
Reference Architecture Foundation will document needs and considerations in  
applying SOA-RM concepts towards SOA realizations.  

Public Review Period:

The public review starts today, 24 August 2011 and ends 24 October 2011. The  
specification was previously submitted for public review on 13 November 2009  
[2]. This review is limited in scope to changes made from the previous  
review. 

Changes are highlighted in the diff-marked PDF file: 

http://docs.oasis-open.org/soa-rm/soa-ra/v1.0/csprd02/soa-ra-v1.0-csprd02-diff.pdf

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from  
potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the  
sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

URIs:

The prose specification document and related files are available here:

PDF (Authoritative):

http://docs.oasis-open.org/soa-rm/soa-ra/v1.0/csprd02/soa-ra-v1.0-csprd02.pdf

HTML:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/soa-rm/soa-ra/v1.0/csprd02/soa-ra-v1.0-csprd02.html

Editable source:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/soa-rm/soa-ra/v1.0/csprd02/soa-ra-v1.0-csprd02.doc

ZIP distribution file (complete):

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose  
specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download  
the ZIP file here:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/soa-rm/soa-ra/v1.0/csprd02/soa-ra-v1.0-csprd02.zip

Additional information about the specification and the OASIS SOA Reference  
Model TC can be found at the TC's public home page:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/soa-rm/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the  
OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located via the button labeled "Send A  
Comment" at the top of the TC public home, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=soa-rm

Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of  
this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/soa-rm-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License,  
which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at  
least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public  
review of for OASIS Reference Architecture Foundation for Service Oriented  
Architecture (SOA-RAF), we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [3]  
applicable especially [4] to the work of this technical committee. All  
members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create  
obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member's patent,  
copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS  
specification. OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to  
disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above  
specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for  
this TC's work.

========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS SOA Reference Model

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/soa-rm/

[2] Previous public review announcement

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200911/msg00010.html

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/icom/ipr.php

http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#10.2.3

RF on Limited Terms 

Best Regards,

/chet

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Chet Ensign

Director of Standards Development and TC Administration

OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society

http://www.oasis-open.org

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