A conference call has been scheduled for Monday, 16 June 2008 to discuss the
proposed charter for the SOA-EERP Technical Committee.
Participants include the TC Convenor, the OASIS TC Administrator, and optionally
other members of OASIS staff and TC Proposers. Other interested OASIS Members
are invited to observe.
Call in details:
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The proposed charter is included below for reference.
Regards,
Mary
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Mary P McRae
Manager of TC Administration, OASIS
email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
web: www.oasis-open.org
phone: 603.232.9090
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PROPOSED CHARTER
FOR REVIEW AND COMMENT
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, anyu.lee@gmail.com, ChangFeng Alliance
Abbie Barbir, abbieb@nortel.com, Nortel
William Cox, wtcox@CoxSoftwareArchitects.com, Cox Software Architects
James Guo, james.guowei@gmail.com, Digital China
Alex Wang, dlwang@sursen.com, Beijing Sursen Co. Ltd
Kirk Yang, yangyp@digitalchina.com, Beijing Digital China Limited
Pine Zhang, pine_zhang@sursen.com, UOML Alliance
Chen XiuZhi, chengxz@ch2000.com.cn, Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000 Co. Ltd.
Hu GuangBin, huguangbin@myce.net.cn, CE Open Source Software Co. Ltd
Jin YouBing, jinyb@redflag2000.cn, Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000 Co. Ltd.
Li ChunQing, cli@tongtech.com, Beijing Tong Tech Co Ltd
Li ZiangKai, xiangkaili@redflag-linux.com, Redflag Software Co. Ltd
Yuan Yuan, yuanyuan@myce.net.cn , CE Open Source Software Co. Ltd
Xie ZhenMo, zmxie@redflag-linux.com, Redflag Software Co. Ltd
(2)(e) The name of the Convener who must be an Eligible Person.
Anyu Lee, anyu.lee@gmail.com, 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.