[OSLC-Configuration] Fw: [oslc-ccm] Call for Participation: OASIS OSLC Lifecycle Integration for Change and Configuration Management (OSLC CCM) TC

Steve K Speicher sspeiche at us.ibm.com
Tue Jan 7 09:09:40 EST 2014


OSLC-Configuration WG members, see details below about joining the OASIS 
OSLC Change and Configuration Management Technical Committee. 

Regards,
Steve Speicher
IBM Rational Software
OSLC - Lifecycle integration inspired by the web -> 
http://open-services.net


From:   Chet Ensign <chet.ensign at oasis-open.org>
Date:   01/04/2014 01:09 PM
Subject:        [oslc-ccm] Call for Participation: OASIS OSLC Lifecycle 
Integration for Change and Configuration Management (OSLC CCM) TC
Sent by:        <oslc-ccm at lists.oasis-open.org>



OASIS members & interested parties,

A new OASIS technical committee is being formed. The OASIS OSLC Lifecycle 
Integration for Change and Configuration Management (OSLC CCM) Technical 
Committee (TC) has been proposed by the members of OASIS listed in the 
charter below. The TC name, statement of purpose, scope, list of 
deliverables, audience, IPR mode and language specified in the proposal 
will constitute the TC's official charter. Submissions of technology for 
consideration by the TC, and the beginning of technical discussions, may 
occur no sooner than the TC's first meeting.

The eligibility requirements for becoming a participant in the TC at the 
first meeting are:

(a) you must be an employee or designee of an OASIS member organization or 
an individual member of OASIS, and

(b) you must join the Technical Committee, which members may do by using 
the Roster "join group: link on the TC's web page at [a].

To be considered a voting member at the first meeting:

(a) you must join the Technical Committee at least 7 days prior to the 
first meeting (on or before 28 January 2014); and

(b) you must attend the first meeting of the TC, at the time and date 
fixed below (04 February 2014).

Participants also may join the TC at a later time. OASIS and the TC 
welcomes all interested parties.

Non-OASIS members who wish to participate may contact us about joining 
OASIS [b]. In addition, the public may access the information resources 
maintained for each TC: a mail list archive, document repository and 
public comments facility, which will be linked from the TC's public home 
page at [c].

Please feel free to forward this announcement to any other appropriate 
lists. OASIS is an open standards organization; we encourage your 
participation.

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[a] https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/oslc-ccm/

[b] See http://www.oasis-open.org/join/


[c] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/oslc-ccm/

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


OASIS OSLC Lifecycle Integration for Change and Configuration Management 
(OSLC CCM) Technical Committee Charter

The charter for this TC is as follows.

(1)(a) Name of the TC

OASIS OSLC Lifecycle Integration for Change and Configuration Management 
(OSLC CCM) Technical Committee 

(1)(b) Statement of Purpose

Managing change and configurations within a complex systems and software 
development lifecycle can become very difficult, especially in 
heterogeneous environments including homegrown tools, open source 
projects, and commercial tools from different vendors. Organizations need 
to design, develop, deliver, and evolve a portfolio of products with 
variations in features, configurations, and functions to manage change 
requests from customers more effectively and efficiently and to align 
development with business objectives. 

In order to support these activities, there is a need for an open 
technical architecture that is minimalist, loosely coupled, and 
standardized. This provides common standardized data formats and 
operations. The OSLC (Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration) 
initiative applies World Wide Web and Linked Data principles, such as 
those defined in the W3C Linked Data Platform (LDP), to create a cohesive 
set of specifications that can enable products, services, and other 
distributed network resources to interoperate successfully. Therefore, the 
goal of the OSLC Lifecycle Integration for Change and Configuration 
Management TC (referred to subsequently as the OASIS OSLC CCM TC) is to 
produce specifications that leverage the OASIS OSLC lifecycle integration 
Core Specification and enable interoperation of essential change, 
configuration, and asset management processes across the entire 
application and product lifecycle to improve transparency, traceability, 
and agility. The purpose of the OASIS OSLC CCM TC is to define a common 
set of resources, formats, and RESTful services for use in tools 
supporting change, configuration, and asset management domains supporting 
scenarios motived from Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Product 
Lifecycle Management (PLM), Integrated Service Management (ISM), Cloud 
Computing, and DevOps.

(1)(c) Scope

The OASIS OSLC CCM TC defines a set of resources, formats, and a RESTful 
web services interface for:

Change Management – that is, the management of product change requests, 
activities, tasks and relationships between those and related resources 
during the application and product lifecycle. The OASIS OSLC CCM TC will 
accept as one input the OSLC MS Steering Committee approved versions of 
the OSLC Change Management 3.0 specifications from open-services.net and 
targeted for development at OASIS as indicated here: 

http://open-services.net/wiki/change-management/Specification-3.0/

Configuration Management – that is, the management of configurations, 
configuration items, baselines, and change sets for information resources 
from any domain. The OASIS OSLC CCM TC will accept as one input the OSLC 
MS Steering Committee approved versions of the OSLC Configuration 
Management 1.0 specifications from open-services.net and targeted for 
development at OASIS as indicated here: 

http://open-services.net/workgroups/configuration-management/

Asset Management – which allows enterprises to catalog, govern, manage, 
search for, and maintain assets. An asset is anything tangible or 
intangible that provides value through reference or reuse across a wide 
audience over an extended period of time such as software, documentation, 
or representations of equipment. The OASIS OSLC CCM TC will accept as one 
input the OSLC MS Steering Committee approved versions of the OSLC Asset 
Management 2.0 specifications from open-services.net, targeted for 
development at OASIS as indicated here: 

http://open-services.net/workgroups/asset-management/

Here are the key responsibilities of the OASIS OSLC CCM TC:

1) Expand on LDP and OSLC Core concepts, as needed, to support 
integrations with Change and Configuration Management tools, including
  a) Common vocabulary describing change configuration and asset 
management resources
  b) Standard links between change, configuration and asset management 
resources and other resources in the software and hardware development 
lifecycle
  c) State transitions of resources
  d) Binary attachments on resources
  e) Aggregation of configurations of resources across multiple providers 
  f) Integrating tools that already have an existing versioning system, 
possibly including configurations and baselines, without requiring such 
tools to re-implement those capabilities. In these cases, the resources to 
be managed by this cross-tool, cross-domain service may include 
configurations or baselines defined by existing tools; as such, the 
service provides composite or aggregate configurations and baselines.

2) Add additional technical elements as required to support current and 
future scenarios from OSLC User Groups, OSLC MS-affiliated TCs, 
Subcommittees, and the OSLC Member Section Steering Committee

3) Drive common change, configuration, and asset management and other 
domain needs with the OSLC Core TC

(1)(d) Deliverables

The OASIS OSLC CCM TC is expected to produce within 24 months of the first 
meeting:

1) Scenarios: these will guide the priorities and specification contents 
within the TC
  a) Also a prioritized list of scenarios both developed by the OASIS OSLC 
CCM TC and contributed from OSLC User Groups, OSLC MS-affiliated TCs, 
Subcommittees, and the OSLC MS Steering Committee.

2) Specifications: develop specifications to support the identified 
integration scenarios. The specifications will provide terminology and 
rules for defining resource vocabularies in terms of the property names 
and value-types and will recommend various resource representations. 
  a) These deliverables may constitute a collection of specifications, one 
per capability or a single specification covering a collection of 
capabilities
  b) Additional specifications may be introduced over time to satisfy 
capabilities needed by supported scenarios

3) Supporting and enabling material, produced in collaboration with other 
OSLC MS-affiliated TCs as appropriate or on an as-needed basis to support 
broad adoption including:
  a) Guidance – informative, non-normative material covering topics such 
as implementation, resource design, and specification development 
  b) Best Practices – publication of various best (and worst) practices to 
aid in the implementation of specifications and interoperable solutions. 

4) Terminology: a common set of terms intended to be used across OSLC 
MS-affiliated TCs

5) Vocabulary: in support of specifications, a set of machine and human 
processable vocabularies, including tools and best practices

6) Test suites: provide description test suites (perhaps manual) to 
illustrate how implementations of specifications should comply with the 
specification. OASIS OSLC CCM TC may also identify suitable  third party 
automated test suites, such as an open source suite from Eclipse Lyo, that 
can be used to execute such tests. 

The OASIS OSLC CCM TC plans to revise and expand its specifications over 
time, to enable functionality called for by revisions in, and expansions 
of, the motivational scenarios.  This means that new specifications that 
cover new capabilities may be introduced as scenarios are refined to 
support new capabilities.  The TC may produce separate specifications for 
various CCM focused areas such as for: Change, Configuration, or Asset 
Management.

Maintenance

Once the TC has completed work on a specific deliverable (whether 
“complete” means it has become an OASIS Standard, or simply a Committee 
Specification is left to the TC’s discretion), the TC will provide 
maintenance for that deliverable. The purpose of maintenance is to provide 
minor revisions to previously adopted deliverables to clarify ambiguities, 
inconsistencies, and obvious errors. Maintenance is not intended to 
enhance a deliverable or to extend its functionality. In addition to 
maintenance, the TC may choose to create new versions of specifications 
that support additional capabilities as needed by scenarios.

(1)(e) IPR Mode

This TC will operate under the "RF (Royalty Free) on Limited Terms" IPR 
mode as defined in the OASIS Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy. 

(1)(f) Anticipated audience of the work

The OASIS OSLC CCM TC will produce specifications that are applicable to 
two types of interest groups: 

1) Developers of OSLC specifications, including those produced by OSLC 
MS-affiliated TCs and other standards groups

2) End users of Specifications, including implementers (software vendors, 
open source projects, and developers of custom business software) 

The work should be of interest to anyone involved with integration of 
tools. 

(1)(g) Language

The OASIS OSLC CCM TC will conduct its business in English. The TC may 
elect to form subcommittees that produce localized documentation of the 
TC's work in additional languages.


(2) Non-normative information

(2)(a) Identification of similar or related work

1) OSLC Steering Committee approved versions of the OSLC Core 
specification from open-services.net, targeted for OASIS as indicated 
here:

http://open-services.net/wiki/core/Specification-3.0/

2) OSLC Steering Committee approved versions of the OSLC Change Management 
specification from open-services.net, targeted for OASIS as indicated 
here: 

http://open-services.net/wiki/change-management/Specification-3.0/

3) OSLC Steering Committee approved version of the OSLC Configuration 
Management specifications from open-services.net, targeted for OASIS as 
indicated here:

http://open-services.net/workgroups/configuration-management/

4) OSLC MS Steering Committee approved versions of the OSLC Asset 
Management 2.0 specifications from open-services.net, targeted for OASIS 
as indicated here: 

http://open-services.net/wiki/asset-management/OSLC-Asset-Management-2.0-Specification/

5) Linked Data Platform 1.0 (Draft) as indicated here: 

http://www.w3.org/TR/ldp/ 

(2)(b) Date, Time and Location of the first meeting

The first meeting will be held through teleconference on 10:00 AM-12:00PM 
(EST) February 4, 2014 and IBM will sponsor this call. 

(2)(c) Ongoing meeting schedule

The TC intends to meet by teleconference every two weeks. Sponsorship for 
these meetings will be rotated through the OASIS Organizational Members 
represented on the TC. 

(2)(d) The names, electronic mail addresses, and membership affiliations 
of co-proposers

1) Andreas Eberhart, andreas.eberhart at fluidops.com, fluid Operations OASIS 
member 

2) Derek Piette, dpiette at ptc.com, PTC OASIS Member

3) Matt Klassen, mklassen at ptc.com, PTC OASIS Member

4) Nick Crossley, ncrossley at us.ibm.com, IBM OASIS Member

5) Parham Vasaiely, parham.vasaiely at eads.com, EADS OASIS member

6) Peter Haase, peter.haase at fluidops.com, fluid Operations OASIS member

7) Robert Baillargeon, rbaillargeon at sodius.com, Sodius OASIS member

8) Samuel Padgett, spadgett at us.ibm.com, IBM OASIS Member

(2)(e) Statements of Support

I, Dave Ings, ings at ca.ibm.com, OASIS primary representative of IBM 
organization, confirm our support for this charter and endorse our 
proposers listed above as named co-proposers. 

I, David Helfinstine, dhelfinstine at ptc.com, OASIS primary representative 
of PTC organization, confirm our support for this charter and endorse our 
proposers listed above as named co-proposers. 

I, Irina Schmidt, irina.schmidt at fluidops.com, OASIS primary representative 
of fluid Operations organization, confirm our support for this charter and 
endorse our proposers listed above as named co-proposers.

I, Nicolas Figay, nicolas.figay at eads.net, OASIS primary representative of 
EADS organization, confirm our support for this charter and endorse our 
proposers listed above as named co-proposers.

I, Thomas Capelle, tcapelle at sodius.com, OASIS primary representative of 
Sodius organization, confirm our support for this charter and endorse our 
proposers listed above as named co-proposers. 

(2)(f) TC Convener

The TC Convener will be Steve Speicher, sspeiche at us.ibm.com, OASIS member.

(2)(g) Affiliation to Member Section 

The OASIS OSLC CCM TC intends to request affiliation with the OASIS OSLC 
Member Section (MS): http://www.oasis-oslc.org/

(2)(h) List of anticipated contributions

The OASIS OSLC CCM TC will accept as one input from the OSLC Steering 
Committee approved versions of the OSLC Change Management 3.0 
specifications from open-services.net, targeted for OASIS as indicated 
here http://open-services.net/wiki/change-management/Specification-3.0/, 
Configuration Management 1.0 specifications from open-services.net, 
targeted for OASIS as indicated here 
http://open-services.net/workgroups/configuration-management/, and Asset 
Management 2.0 Specifications from open-services.net, targeted for OASIS 
as indicated here 
http://open-services.net/wiki/asset-management/OSLC-Asset-Management-2.0-Specification/

References

[1] Linked Data Platform 1.0 (Draft)
http://www.w3.org/TR/ldp/ 

[2] Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC)
http://open-services.net/ 

[3] Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Core Specification Version 
2.0 (Final)
http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/OslcCoreSpecification/ 

[4] Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Core Specification Version 
3.0 (Draft)
http://open-services.net/wiki/core/Specification-3.0/

[5] Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Change Management 
Specification Version 2.0 (Final)
http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/CmSpecificationV2/ 

[6] Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Change Management 
Specification Version 3.0 (Draft)
http://open-services.net/wiki/change-management/Specification-3.0/

[7] Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Configuration Management 
Specification Version 1.0 (Scope)
http://open-services.net/workgroups/configuration-management/

[8] Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Asset Management 
Specification Version 2.0 (Final)
http://open-services.net/wiki/asset-management/OSLC-Asset-Management-2.0-Specification/

[9] Eclipse Lyo
http://eclipse.org/lyo/ 

[10] OASIS IPR Policy
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr/ 

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