[OSLC-RM] Link types

Tue Oct 6 10:18:42 EDT 2009

Ian

As per my other email on reporting, I feel that such such collaboration 
and consistency across domains will be extremely important, if not 
absolutely necessary.
Specifically in the context of reporting, the features exposed by service 
providers across each domain will need to (consistently) support the 
requirements and use-cases defined in the Reporting domain such that 
reporting consumers can leverage lifecycle data without needing any 
knowledge of the source domains and any differences in the way they expose 
data.

The scenarios and use-cases that we are defining in the reporting domain 
should be entirely domain agnostic, as far as I am concerned. We can use 
specific examples for both single domain reporting as well as cross domain 
reporting, but the domains used in the examples should be freely 
interchangeable without any impact on the reporting consumer.

The reporting domain is still in its infancy, and my involvement in OSLC 
is only just beginning, but from what I understand, the reporting domain 
might be one of the first things to force us to think about some of the 
cross domain issues that you and Simon have discussed.

/Ben

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From:
Ian Green1/UK/IBM at IBMGB
To:
"Simon Wills" <simon.wills at integrate.biz>
Cc:
oslc-rm at open-services.net
Date:
06/10/2009 14:16
Subject:
Re: [OSLC-RM] Link types
Sent by:
oslc-rm-bounces at open-services.net

Hello Simon, 

this is good progress both on explaining our current position w.r.t. link 
types, and also taking a longer term view of the role we see link types 
playing the future.  Thanks very much for putting this together. 

Steve/Scott: whilst there is no pressure as yet to drive this forward, 
Simon makes a good case for any such effort to be cross-OSLC domains.  How 
do you see this shaping up over time?  Is there some tension between 
designing an OSLC-wide vocabulary and being entirely scenario-driven? 

best wishes,
   -ian

ian.green at uk.ibm.com (Ian Green1/UK/IBM at IBMGB)
Chief Software Architect, Requirements Definition and Management
IBM Rational 

From: 
"Simon Wills" <simon.wills at integrate.biz> 
To: 
Ian Green1/UK/IBM at IBMGB 
Date: 
05/10/2009 15:42 
Subject: 
Link types

Hi Ian 

Just to let you know ... I?ve put a new section titled ?Discussion Topics? 
in the right hand sidebar of the main RM page, and put a link to a 
discussion document on link types (at 
http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/RmDiscussionLinkTypes).  Haven?t 
quite sussed out how to format tables properly in the Wiki editor, but the 
content is all there. 

Would you like me to put out an announcement on the mailing list? 

Cheers 

Simon 

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