[acs-wg] OASIS SDD TC Formal requirements

[Keisuke Fukui]

Folks in acs-wg,

As mentioned in the Tom's message, SDD TC agreed to work on the
converging AAD into relevant part of the SDD. The initial proposal
is already presented by Mr. Randy George. It can be publicly
viewable through the below link:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=18471&wg_abbrev=sdd

I welcome this proposal since it contains necessary information
in the current AAD and I believe the ACS Repository Interface can
work with it with a simple translation of the SDD format document.
To make this even easier, the IUDD V2 descriptor was split into
one that contains AAD equivalent information and the other that
contain deployment information which is optional.

I'd like to hear your opinion or comments on this to give a feedback
to the SDD TC. Replies to the message is fine. I am also planning to
have a teleconference to hear your voice. I propose an irregular date
in order to give a feedback at the next SDD TC telecon.

ACS Telecon Candidate Date & Time:
Jun 5 Mon 20:00 EDT/Jun 6 Tue 9:00 JST or
Jun 6 Tue 20:00 EDT/Jun 7 Wed 9:00 JST

Please let me know if either doesn't work for you. Otherwise
I would arrange the meeting with the first candidate date.

Thanks in advance!
-Keisuke


Thomas Studwell wrote:
> Dear ACS WG members,
> attached you will find a link to a document that has been approved by 
> the OASIS Solution Deployment Descriptor Technical Committee as the 
> formal requirements for the SDD specification. This document is a result 
> of compilation of over 200 use cases brought by TC members including 
> representatives from your workgroup. We appreciate your input and we 
> believe that we have captured the requirements needed to meet your use 
> cases. Please take a look at the requirements and provide feedback 
> through your representative, Keisuke Fukui.
> 
> In addition to these requirements, in our recent face to face meeting 
> the SDD TC voted to work with representatives of the ACS WG to try to 
> converge ACS's AAD with relevant portions of the SDD. Work has already 
> begun in this area and we look forward to agreeing on a converged 
> mapping of key elements necessary in both sets of specifications.
> 
> We understand that you are nearing approval of your V1.0 specification 
> and any changes would most likely be reflected in later versions of the 
> ACS specification but we believe this convergence is important to 
> industry acceptance of both specifications and look forward to working 
> with your representatives on this matter.
> 
> Link to SDD Requirements Document: 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sdd/document.php?document_id=17882
> 
> Thomas W. Studwell
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