Time:
10:00 AM Eastern US (contact
MichaelFiedler if you'd like to participate)
The Automation meetings alternate times each meeting to accomodate the global team.
Agenda
* Reoccurring agenda items:
* New pages started to compliment the specification
* Main agenda items:
- Draft Spec discussion: AutoSpecificationV1
- Continue discussion
- More formal definition of parameters. See this e-mail to the mailing list.
- Result Contribution attribute representation - does this need to be made more formal as well?
- Review other resource attributes
- Do the proposed V1 artifacts satisfy the V1 scenarios?
- Additional workgroup members interested in participating in spec authoring?
- Next meetings:
Minutes
Attending: Michael Fiedler, David Brauneis, Charles Rankin, Nathan Bak, Pete Steinfeld, Max Vohlken, Pramod Chandoria, Rich Rakich, Louis Paul, Srimanth Gunturi, John Arwe
* Primary topic was discussion around the "parameter definition" and "parameter instance" proposal which started on the mailing list during the week
- clarification of the scenarios driving the proposal
- for simple execution where Automation Requests are being created with a delegated UI, formally defined parameter definitions and instances not required
- for composition scenarios: having default values and knowledge of which parameters are required is needed.
- Is "required" an essential attribute of parameters? Agreement that it is.
- Agreement to not force the parameter type to string. Give guidance, but allow consumers/service providers flexibility
- Discussion on parameter ordering. Acknowledgement that consumers/service providers have flexibility to use additional predicates (e.g. foo:index) to achieve this
- Confirmed a particular parameter name can appear multiple times in an Automation Request (or other artifacts)
* Discussion on Automation spec's requirements for RDF/XML, "plain" XML and JSON
- Agreement to make RDF/XML a MUST requirement. Plain XML and JSON will be MAY requirements
* Will request on mailing list for everyone to review the spec and be ready with comments next Thursday
Next meeting: 26 January at 1PM Eastern US time