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Call for Consent opens for #TOSCA Simple Profile in YAML V1.1 as OASIS Standard

The OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) TC members [1] have approved submitting the following Candidate OASIS Standard to the OASIS Membership in a call for consent for OASIS Standard:

TOSCA Simple Profile in YAML Version 1.1
Candidate OASIS Standard 01
04 October 2017

This Call for Consent is taking place under the revised TC Process rules effective 01 July 2017 [2]. This is a call to the primary or alternate representatives of OASIS Organizational Members to consent or object to this approval. You are welcome to register your consent explicitly on the ballot; however, your consent is assumed unless you register an objection [3]. To register an objection, you must:

1. Indicate your objection on this ballot, and

2. Provide a reason for your objection and/or a proposed remedy to the TC.

You may provide the reason in the comment box or by email to the Technical Committee on its comment mailing list or, if you are a member of the TC, to the TC’s mailing list [3]. If you provide your reason by email, please indicate in the subject line that this is in regard to the Call for Consent.

This Committee Specification was approved by the Technical Committee and was submitted for the required 60-day public review [4]. All requirements of the OASIS TC Process having been met [5][6], the Candidate OASIS Standard is now submitted to the voting representatives of OASIS Organizational Members.

— Details —

The Call for Consent opens at 17 January 2018 00:00 UTC and closes on 30 January 2018 23:59 pm timezone. You can access the ballot at:

Internal link for voting members: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/voting/ballot.php?id=3161

Publicly visible link: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=3161

OASIS members should ensure that their organization’s voting representative responds according to the organization’s wishes. If you do not know the name of your organization’s voting representative is, go to the My Account page at

http://www.oasis-open.org/members/user_tools

then click the link for your Company (at the top of the page) and review the list of users for the name designated as “Primary”.

— Information about the Candidate OASIS Standard and the TOSCA TC —

The TOSCA TC works to enhance the portability and operational management of cloud applications and services across their entire lifecycle.

YAML is a human friendly data serialization standard with a syntax much easier to read and edit than XML. The TOSCA Simple Profile in YAML specifies a rendering of TOSCA which aims to provide a more accessible syntax as well as a more concise and incremental expressiveness of the TOSCA DSL (Domain Specific Language) in order to minimize the learning curve and speed the adoption of the use of TOSCA to portably describe cloud applications.

The TC received 7 Statements of Use from Ubicity Corp, FastConnect, Vnomic, GigaSpaces, ZTE, University of Pisa, and IBM [2].

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

PDF (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML/v1.1/cos01/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML-v1.1-cos01.pdf

HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML/v1.1/cos01/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML-v1.1-cos01.html

Editable source:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML/v1.1/cos01/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML-v1.1-cos01.docx

Distribution ZIP files:

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

http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML/v1.1/cos01/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML-v1.1-cos01.zip

— Additional information —

[1] OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tosca/

TC IPR page
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tosca/ipr.php

[2] https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process-2017-05-26#OScallForConsent

[3] TOSCA comment mailing list: tosca-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
(You must be subscribed to send to this list. For instructions on how to subscribe, see https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=tosca.)

TOSCA main mailing list: tosca@lists.oasis-open.org

[4] Candidate OASIS Standard Special Majority Vote:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=3126

[5] Public reviews:

60-day public review, 19 October 2017:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201710/msg00003.html
– Comment resolution log:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML/v1.1/cos01/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML-v1.1-cos01-comment-resolution-log.txt

15-day public review, 16 February 2017:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201702/msg00002.html
– Comment resolution log:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML/v1.1/csprd02/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML-v1.1-csprd02-comment-resolution-log.xlsx

30-day public review, 18 October 2016:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201610/msg00005.html
– Comment resolution log:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML/v1.1/csprd01/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML-v1.1-csprd01-comment-resolution-log.txt

[6] Statements of Use:
Ubicity Corp.: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tosca/201708/msg00019.html

FastConnect: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tosca/201708/msg00023.html

Vnomic: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tosca/201708/msg00025.html

GigaSpaces: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tosca/201708/msg00034.html

ZTE: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tosca/201708/msg00061.html

University of Pisa: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tosca/201708/msg00062.html

IBM: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tosca/201708/msg00070.html