[Oslc-steeringcommittee] 15-day Public Review for Product Life Cycle Support V1.0

Steve K Speicher sspeiche at us.ibm.com
Fri Sep 6 16:47:09 EDT 2013


Hi Mark,

To quote a wise man (I'm not sure who made the quote) "The great thing 
about standards is that there are so many to choose from".  I haven't run 
into this work before and its name alone caught my attention.  I 
definitely think it makes sense for the StC to consider, or maybe just 
someone within the PLCS TC, to invite some OSLC people for a discussion 
and knowledge sharing.  PLCS takes an approach to define a large common 
information model and then allow profiling it for certain purposes.  It 
also defines some data exchange spec (DEX).  I have only had time to dig a 
few inches into PLCS.  Though the 1.4 MB OWL file has me a bit 
intimidated, hopefully it isn't that bad.  I hope to be able to spend a 
little more time on it.

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



From:   "Schulte, Mark D" <mark.d.schulte at boeing.com>
To:     Steve K Speicher/Raleigh/IBM at IBMUS
Cc:     "oslc-steeringcommittee at open-services.net" 
<oslc-steeringcommittee at open-services.net>
Date:   09/05/2013 11:31 AM
Subject:        RE: [Oslc-steeringcommittee] 15-day Public Review for 
Product Life    Cycle Support V1.0



From my standpoint, having become engaged with the StC has helped me be 
more aware of related standards work (as with the TestIF interface std at 
the OMG) which seem to have parallel or overlapping interest in the areas 
of linking data and related work with data exchange.  I am not entirely 
sure yet how the StC views that but it would seem to me that when we run 
into those kinds of things we should try to ascertain whether they are 
doing something which conflicts or relates or parallels our own 
specifications that are in work, and if so, at a minimum exchange 
information with those thought leaders on the OSLC approach and 
specifications being developed.
 
For example, having a particular interface for defining XML std data for 
exchanging test information between tools as well as an OSLC Quality spec 
for defining test-related linked data queries, would seem to signal a 
couple of things.  Vendors have to support multiple ways to exchange or 
link data between tools to cover the bases.  And as a user of tools in a 
systems or software engineering toolchain, I don’t want to find that some 
of my preferred tools support exchange of data with one std 
(import/export) while other tools do not, but instead support an OSLC 
interface.  Essentially, multiple conflicting but related standards don’t 
really help my long term integration problems.
 
Of course,  I realize that we can’t get alignments in this area any time 
soon and I know we don’t have the resources to engage and work all of the 
parallel efforts that may come up,  but I think engaging as much as we can 
with these other organizations will help at least increase awareness and 
perhaps help us understand any gaps in what we are doing.
 
Steve, 
With respect to this one in particular, since it was within OASIS already, 
I just thought maybe someone already knew something about and could 
provide an overview and comment on whether it was related to our work or 
really covering something totally different.
 
Thanks,
 
Mark
 
From: Steve K Speicher [mailto:sspeiche at us.ibm.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 8:18 AM
To: Schulte, Mark D
Cc: oslc-steeringcommittee at open-services.net
Subject: Re: [Oslc-steeringcommittee] 15-day Public Review for Product 
Life Cycle Support V1.0
 
Hi Mark and all, 

I have been doing some learning on this but had a question on 
clarification on what is expected from me: 
- Are you looking for a summary or this effort?   
- Perhaps stated a different way, what level of understanding do the 
Steering Committee members have about this effort? 
- I'd be interested to hear any thoughts on synergies, please send to me 
and I can consolidate into a report. 

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



From:        "Schulte, Mark D" <mark.d.schulte at boeing.com> 
To:        "oslc-steeringcommittee at open-services.net" <
oslc-steeringcommittee at open-services.net> 
Date:        08/14/2013 07:19 AM 
Subject:        [Oslc-steeringcommittee] 15-day Public Review for Product 
Life        Cycle Support V1.0 
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I was just curious as to whether others had seen this. 
  
 
The OASIS Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) TC (which I know nothing 
about) sent out information on a review last week that sounded like it 
would have some relationship to the same things we are doing here with 
OSLC, although perhaps that is not quite the case.  Is this a concern?

“to establish structured data exchange and sharing capabilities for use by 
industry to support complex engineered assets throughout their total life 
cycle. The OASIS Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) standard is defined by 
Data Exchange Specifications (DEX) that are based upon ISO 10303 (STEP) 
Application Protocol 239 Product Life Cycle Support. This draft includes 
the PLCS library, templates, derived SysML and XML models and associated 
reference data.”

Is there any synergy needed between this effort and the OSLC work? 
  
  
Mark D. Schulte, Associate Technical Fellow 
Systems, Software, PLM & ESML Engineering 
Boeing Defense Systems 
The Boeing Company 
mark.d.schulte at boeing.com 
Office: +1 314-777-7331 

  
 
----- Message from Chet Ensign <chet.ensign at oasis-open.org> on Mon, 5 Aug 
2013 22:09:54 +0000 ----- 

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Subject:
[members] 15-day Public Review for Product Life Cycle Support V1.0 

The OASIS Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) TC members [1] have produced 
an updated Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this 
specification for 15-day public review:

Product Life Cycle Support Version 1.0
Committee Specification Draft 02 / Public Review Draft 02
19 July 2013

Specification Overview:

The purpose of the OASIS Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) standard is to 
establish structured data exchange and sharing capabilities for use by 
industry to support complex engineered assets throughout their total life 
cycle. The OASIS Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) standard is defined by 
Data Exchange Specifications (DEX) that are based upon ISO 10303 (STEP) 
Application Protocol 239 Product Life Cycle Support. This draft includes 
the PLCS library, templates, derived SysML and XML models and associated 
reference data.

Please note that this Committee Specification Draft is a highly 
interlinked collection of HTML documents. The navigation links on the top 
and in the left column provide accesss to the components of the draft. The 
link to Help on the navigation links includes an explanation of the 
organization of the material. The Help topic "PLCSlib navigation" explains 
how to use the interface.

TC Description:

The TC is currently developing templates for deployment of the ISO 
10303-239 standard, together with associated SysML and XML models to 
facilitate implementation. It is intended that the work be adopted by ISO.

Public Review Period:

The public review starts 6 August 2013 at 00:00 GMT and ends 21 August 
2013 at 23:59 GMT. The specification was previously submitted for public 
review [2].

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from 
potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for 
the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical 
work.

Due to the complex structure of the material, the TC requests that, when 
making a comment, you prefix the comment with a label identifying the 
artifact against which the comment is made:

- For comments against the PLCS Platform Specific Model: EXPRESS 
information model, use "(plcs-psm.exp)."

- For comments against the PLCS Platform Specific Model: SysML information 
model, use "(plcs-psm.xmi)."

- For comments against the XML Schema, use "(plcs-psm.xsd)."

- For comments against the Schematron, use "(plcs-psm.sch)."

- For comments against the PLCS Platform Specific Model: OWL Reference 
Data, use "(plcs-psm-en.owl)."

- For comments against the PLCS OWL Reference Data, use 
"(plcs-rdl-en.owl)."

- For comments against a template, use "Template: <template name>."

The members of the TC thank reviewers in advance for helping to make the 
comments traceable.

URIs:
The prose specification document and related files are available here:

HTML (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/plcs/plcslib/v1.0/csprd02/plcslib-v1.0-csprd02.html


PDF (Cover pages only with links to specification):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/plcs/plcslib/v1.0/csprd02/plcslib-v1.0-csprd02.pdf


ZIP distribution files (complete):

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose 
specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can 
download the ZIP file here:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/plcs/plcslib/v1.0/csprd02/plcslib-v1.0-csprd02.zip


Additional information about this specification and the PLCS TC may be 
found on the TC's public home page located at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/plcs/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the 
OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be accessed by following the 
instructions at "Send A Comment" at the top of the TC public home page, or 
directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=plcs

Feedback submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of 
this TC is publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/plcs-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, 
which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations 
at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this 
public review of "Product Life Cycle Support Version 1.0", we call your 
attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [3] applicable especially [4] to the 
work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar 
with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure 
and availability of a member's patent, copyright, trademark and license 
rights that read on an approved OASIS specification. OASIS invites any 
persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be 
essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice 
of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC's work.

========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/plcs

[2] Previous public reviews:
30-day public review, 27 March 2013: 
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201303/msg00007.html
Comment resolution log: 
http://docs.oasis-open.org/plcs/plcslib/v1.0/csprd01/plcs-plcslib-v1.0-csprd01-issues.xls


[3] https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr

[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/plcs/ipr.php
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#s10.2.3
RF on Limited Terms Mode


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