[oslc-core] Proposed agenda items for Wed

[Jacob Yackenovich]

Hi Team,

"Steve's suggestion in [1] was to change the vocabulary name from "Common 
Resource Type Vocabulary" to "Common IT Resource Type Vocabulary", but if 
Core has another that it feels is clearer I suspect that would be 
agreeable as well.  In anticipation of the "why not call it 
Reconciliation?" question, the simple answer is that Tivoli expects these 
resource types to be widely re-used across multiple domains, with 
reconciliation being merely one of those.  The Performance Monitoring WG 
is already re-using several terms, despite having no need for 
reconciliation itself. "


2 Questions: 

Q1) There is 0 guarantee that the set of resource types defined by current 
of future OSLC domains will restrict themselves to IT resources only. Why 
would we change the name of a common vocabulary, where the intent of that 
common vocabulary is to be widely re-used across multiple domains, to a 
name that inherently pigeonholes the purpose and scope to an IT-centric 
set of resources?

Q2) The Common Resource Type Vocabulary currently contains resource 
definitions that represent non-IT resources. Will there be an action to 
delete these resource types from the Common Resource Type Vocabulary, upon 
name change? If a deletion does occur, is there another common vocabulary 
that will be in use to contain these resource definitions? What is the 
proposal to handle conditions where there are common resource definitions 
that have both an IT and non-IT perspective?
http://open-services.net/ns/crtv#Asset
http://open-services.net/ns/crtv#Location
http://open-services.net/ns/crtv#Path
http://open-services.net/ns/crtv#ServiceInstance



[1] 
http://open-services.net/pipermail/oslc-recon_open-services.net/2012-November/000010.html 




Regards,
Jacob

Jacob Yackenovich
Tivoli Software |  IBM  |  Research Triangle Park, NC
jyackeno at us.ibm.com  |  (919) 224-1373
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