Management Task Force

W3C Face To Face

03/04/03

Deliverables Proposed from January F2F

• Deliver – Proposal for base manageability requirements (All)

• Web Service (50% progress)

• Web Service Execution Environment

• Discovery Agency

– Management primer (Mark,Igor) - started

– Reviewable draft of manageability requirements (All)

– Glossary terms (All)

• Do we need an ongoing charter to address additional architectural elements as they are defined? (Yes)

Management Task Force Agenda

• MTF Submissions– Manageability for Web service Endpoint– Glossary terms

• MTF Previous Submissions– Lifecycle, discuss consensus development– Concepts and Relationships, discuss inclusion

• MTF Charter

A few words on Detail

• This is appropriately detailed description of manageability property of Web services.– Not specification – is a description of what is

required to attain a property– Cannot stand independent of the Web Services

Architecture document– WSA cannot be defined without addressing the

manageability properties

Manageability of Web Service Endpoint

• WSA Requirement AC018

• Scope of document

• Concepts – in addition to previous submission

• Management Capabilities for all elements

• Manageability Requirements for Web Service Endpoints

Glossary Submission

• General Management Definitions

• Management Application Definitions

• Terms used in the “Manageability of Web Service Endpoints” Submission

Chartering the Management Task Force

• This isn’t short work and we can’t be ‘finished’ before the WS Architecture is finished.

• There is set of ongoing work for MTF:– Management of WSA Primer

– Address manageability of other WSA Elements• Existing: Service? Service Provider? SEE? Discovery

Agency?

• Possible future: Intermediary? Proxy?

– Revising Current MTF submissions based on feedback from industry and other standards bodies

MTF Charter ProposalThe Management Task Force will will provide the architecture,

description, and requirements for the manageability property for existing and new WSA elements. This task force will also create a primer that demonstrates the defined manageability properties. All drafts will be submitted to the Web Services Architecture Working Group for consideration, consensus development, and inclusion into the Web Services Architecture specification.

The task force will report to the working group during conference calls and face to face meetings. Email exchanges will be done through the task force public mailing list.

Participants and MeetingsParticipants (new members welcome)

• IBM – Heather Kreger

• Computer Associates – Igor Sedukhin

• HP – Zulah Eckert, Yin Leng Husband

• Thomson – Hao He

• Talking Blocks – Mark Potts

• W3C - David Booth

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