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Call for Participation: OASIS OSLC Lifecycle Integration for Change and Configuration Management (#OSLC CCM) Technical Committee

A new OASIS technical committee is being formed. The OASIS OSLC Lifecycle Integration for Change and Configuration Management (OSLC CCM) Technical Committee (TC) has been proposed by the members of OASIS listed in the charter below. The TC name, statement of purpose, scope, list of deliverables, audience, IPR mode and language specified in the proposal will constitute the TC’s official charter. Submissions of technology for consideration by the TC, and the beginning of technical discussions, may occur no sooner than the TC’s first meeting.

The eligibility requirements for becoming a participant in the TC at the first meeting are:

(a) you must be an employee or designee of an OASIS member organization or an individual member of OASIS, and

(b) you must join the Technical Committee, which members may do by using the Roster “join group: link on the TC’s web page at [a].

To be considered a voting member at the first meeting:

(a) you must join the Technical Committee at least 7 days prior to the first meeting (on or before 28 January 2014); and

(b) you must attend the first meeting of the TC, at the time and date fixed below (04 February 2014).

Participants also may join the TC at a later time. OASIS and the TC welcomes all interested parties.

Non-OASIS members who wish to participate may contact us about joining OASIS [b]. In addition, the public may access the information resources maintained for each TC: a mail list archive, document repository and public comments facility, which will be linked from the TC’s public home page at [c].

Please feel free to forward this announcement to any other appropriate lists. OASIS is an open standards organization; we encourage your participation.

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[a] https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/oslc-ccm/

[b] See http://www.oasis-open.org/join/

[c] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/oslc-ccm/

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

OASIS OSLC Lifecycle Integration for Change and Configuration Management (OSLC CCM) Technical Committee Charter

The charter for this TC is as follows.

(1)(a) Name of the TC

OASIS OSLC Lifecycle Integration for Change and Configuration Management (OSLC CCM) Technical Committee

(1)(b) Statement of Purpose

Managing change and configurations within a complex systems and software development lifecycle can become very difficult, especially in heterogeneous environments including homegrown tools, open source projects, and commercial tools from different vendors. Organizations need to design, develop, deliver, and evolve a portfolio of products with variations in features, configurations, and functions to manage change requests from customers more effectively and efficiently and to align development with business objectives.

In order to support these activities, there is a need for an open technical architecture that is minimalist, loosely coupled, and standardized. This provides common standardized data formats and operations. The OSLC (Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration) initiative applies World Wide Web and Linked Data principles, such as those defined in the W3C Linked Data Platform (LDP), to create a cohesive set of specifications that can enable products, services, and other distributed network resources to interoperate successfully. Therefore, the goal of the OSLC Lifecycle Integration for Change and Configuration Management TC (referred to subsequently as the OASIS OSLC CCM TC) is to produce specifications that leverage the OASIS OSLC lifecycle integration Core Specification and enable interoperation of essential change, configuration, and asset management processes across the entire application and product lifecycle to improve transparency, traceability, and agility. The purpose of the OASIS OSLC CCM TC is to define a common set of resources, formats, and RESTful services for use in tools supporting change, configuration, and asset management domains supporting scenarios motived from Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Integrated Service Management (ISM), Cloud Computing, and DevOps.

(1)(c) Scope

The OASIS OSLC CCM TC defines a set of resources, formats, and a RESTful web services interface for:

Change Management – that is, the management of product change requests, activities, tasks and relationships between those and related resources during the application and product lifecycle. The OASIS OSLC CCM TC will accept as one input the OSLC MS Steering Committee approved versions of the OSLC Change Management 3.0 specifications from open-services.net and targeted for development at OASIS as indicated here:

http://open-services.net/wiki/change-management/Specification-3.0/

Configuration Management – that is, the management of configurations, configuration items, baselines, and change sets for information resources from any domain. The OASIS OSLC CCM TC will accept as one input the OSLC MS Steering Committee approved versions of the OSLC Configuration Management 1.0 specifications from open-services.net and targeted for development at OASIS as indicated here:

http://open-services.net/workgroups/configuration-management/

Asset Management – which allows enterprises to catalog, govern, manage, search for, and maintain assets. An asset is anything tangible or intangible that provides value through reference or reuse across a wide audience over an extended period of time such as software, documentation, or representations of equipment. The OASIS OSLC CCM TC will accept as one input the OSLC MS Steering Committee approved versions of the OSLC Asset Management 2.0 specifications from open-services.net, targeted for development at OASIS as indicated here:

http://open-services.net/workgroups/asset-management/

Here are the key responsibilities of the OASIS OSLC CCM TC:

1) Expand on LDP and OSLC Core concepts, as needed, to support integrations with Change and Configuration Management tools, including
a) Common vocabulary describing change configuration and asset management resources
b) Standard links between change, configuration and asset management resources and other resources in the software and hardware development lifecycle
c) State transitions of resources
d) Binary attachments on resources
e) Aggregation of configurations of resources across multiple providers
f) Integrating tools that already have an existing versioning system, possibly including configurations and baselines, without requiring such tools to re-implement those capabilities. In these cases, the resources to be managed by this cross-tool, cross-domain service may include configurations or baselines defined by existing tools; as such, the service provides composite or aggregate configurations and baselines.

2) Add additional technical elements as required to support current and future scenarios from OSLC User Groups, OSLC MS-affiliated TCs, Subcommittees, and the OSLC Member Section Steering Committee

3) Drive common change, configuration, and asset management and other domain needs with the OSLC Core TC

(1)(d) Deliverables

The OASIS OSLC CCM TC is expected to produce within 24 months of the first meeting:

1) Scenarios: these will guide the priorities and specification contents within the TC
a) Also a prioritized list of scenarios both developed by the OASIS OSLC CCM TC and contributed from OSLC User Groups, OSLC MS-affiliated TCs, Subcommittees, and the OSLC MS Steering Committee.

2) Specifications: develop specifications to support the identified integration scenarios. The specifications will provide terminology and rules for defining resource vocabularies in terms of the property names and value-types and will recommend various resource representations.
a) These deliverables may constitute a collection of specifications, one per capability or a single specification covering a collection of capabilities
b) Additional specifications may be introduced over time to satisfy capabilities needed by supported scenarios

3) Supporting and enabling material, produced in collaboration with other OSLC MS-affiliated TCs as appropriate or on an as-needed basis to support broad adoption including:
a) Guidance – informative, non-normative material covering topics such as implementation, resource design, and specification development
b) Best Practices – publication of various best (and worst) practices to aid in the implementation of specifications and interoperable solutions.

4) Terminology: a common set of terms intended to be used across OSLC MS-affiliated TCs

5) Vocabulary: in support of specifications, a set of machine and human processable vocabularies, including tools and best practices

6) Test suites: provide description test suites (perhaps manual) to illustrate how implementations of specifications should comply with the specification. OASIS OSLC CCM TC may also identify suitable third party automated test suites, such as an open source suite from Eclipse Lyo, that can be used to execute such tests.
The OASIS OSLC CCM TC plans to revise and expand its specifications over time, to enable functionality called for by revisions in, and expansions of, the motivational scenarios. This means that new specifications that cover new capabilities may be introduced as scenarios are refined to support new capabilities. The TC may produce separate specifications for various CCM focused areas such as for: Change, Configuration, or Asset Management.

Maintenance

Once the TC has completed work on a specific deliverable (whether “complete” means it has become an OASIS Standard, or simply a Committee Specification is left to the TC’s discretion), the TC will provide maintenance for that deliverable. The purpose of maintenance is to provide minor revisions to previously adopted deliverables to clarify ambiguities, inconsistencies, and obvious errors. Maintenance is not intended to enhance a deliverable or to extend its functionality. In addition to maintenance, the TC may choose to create new versions of specifications that support additional capabilities as needed by scenarios.

(1)(e) IPR Mode

This TC will operate under the “RF (Royalty Free) on Limited Terms” IPR mode as defined in the OASIS Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy.

(1)(f) Anticipated audience of the work

The OASIS OSLC CCM TC will produce specifications that are applicable to two types of interest groups:

1) Developers of OSLC specifications, including those produced by OSLC MS-affiliated TCs and other standards groups

2) End users of Specifications, including implementers (software vendors, open source projects, and developers of custom business software)

The work should be of interest to anyone involved with integration of tools.

(1)(g) Language

The OASIS OSLC CCM TC will conduct its business in English. The TC may elect to form subcommittees that produce localized documentation of the TC’s work in additional languages.

(2) Non-normative information

(2)(a) Identification of similar or related work

1) OSLC Steering Committee approved versions of the OSLC Core specification from open-services.net, targeted for OASIS as indicated here:

http://open-services.net/wiki/core/Specification-3.0/

2) OSLC Steering Committee approved versions of the OSLC Change Management specification from open-services.net, targeted for OASIS as indicated here:

http://open-services.net/wiki/change-management/Specification-3.0/

3) OSLC Steering Committee approved version of the OSLC Configuration Management specifications from open-services.net, targeted for OASIS as indicated here:

http://open-services.net/workgroups/configuration-management/

4) OSLC MS Steering Committee approved versions of the OSLC Asset Management 2.0 specifications from open-services.net, targeted for OASIS as indicated here:

http://open-services.net/wiki/asset-management/OSLC-Asset-Management-2.0-Specification/

5) Linked Data Platform 1.0 (Draft) as indicated here:

http://www.w3.org/TR/ldp/

(2)(b) Date, Time and Location of the first meeting

The first meeting will be held through teleconference on 10:00 AM-12:00PM (EST) February 4, 2014 and IBM will sponsor this call.

(2)(c) Ongoing meeting schedule

The TC intends to meet by teleconference every two weeks. Sponsorship for these meetings will be rotated through the OASIS Organizational Members represented on the TC.

(2)(d) The names, electronic mail addresses, and membership affiliations of co-proposers

1) Andreas Eberhart, andreas.eberhart@fluidops.com, fluid Operations OASIS member

2) Derek Piette, dpiette@ptc.com, PTC OASIS Member

3) Matt Klassen, mklassen@ptc.com, PTC OASIS Member

4) Nick Crossley, ncrossley@us.ibm.com, IBM OASIS Member

5) Parham Vasaiely, parham.vasaiely@eads.com, EADS OASIS member

6) Peter Haase, peter.haase@fluidops.com, fluid Operations OASIS member

7) Robert Baillargeon, rbaillargeon@sodius.com, Sodius OASIS member

8) Samuel Padgett, spadgett@us.ibm.com, IBM OASIS Member

(2)(e) Statements of Support

I, Dave Ings, ings@ca.ibm.com, OASIS primary representative of IBM organization, confirm our support for this charter and endorse our proposers listed above as named co-proposers.

I, David Helfinstine, dhelfinstine@ptc.com, OASIS primary representative of PTC organization, confirm our support for this charter and endorse our proposers listed above as named co-proposers.

I, Irina Schmidt, irina.schmidt@fluidops.com, OASIS primary representative of fluid Operations organization, confirm our support for this charter and endorse our proposers listed above as named co-proposers.

I, Nicolas Figay, nicolas.figay@eads.net, OASIS primary representative of EADS organization, confirm our support for this charter and endorse our proposers listed above as named co-proposers.

I, Thomas Capelle, tcapelle@sodius.com, OASIS primary representative of Sodius organization, confirm our support for this charter and endorse our proposers listed above as named co-proposers.

(2)(f) TC Convener

The TC Convener will be Steve Speicher, sspeiche@us.ibm.com, OASIS member.

(2)(g) Affiliation to Member Section

The OASIS OSLC CCM TC intends to request affiliation with the OASIS OSLC Member Section (MS): http://www.oasis-oslc.org/

(2)(h) List of anticipated contributions

The OASIS OSLC CCM TC will accept as one input from the OSLC Steering Committee approved versions of the OSLC Change Management 3.0 specifications from open-services.net, targeted for OASIS as indicated here http://open-services.net/wiki/change-management/Specification-3.0/, Configuration Management 1.0 specifications from open-services.net, targeted for OASIS as indicated here http://open-services.net/workgroups/configuration-management/, and Asset Management 2.0 Specifications from open-services.net, targeted for OASIS as indicated here http://open-services.net/wiki/asset-management/OSLC-Asset-Management-2.0-Specification/

References

[1] Linked Data Platform 1.0 (Draft)
http://www.w3.org/TR/ldp/

[2] Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC)
http://open-services.net/

[3] Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Core Specification Version 2.0 (Final)
http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/OslcCoreSpecification/

[4] Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Core Specification Version 3.0 (Draft)
http://open-services.net/wiki/core/Specification-3.0/

[5] Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Change Management Specification Version 2.0 (Final)
http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/CmSpecificationV2/

[6] Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Change Management Specification Version 3.0 (Draft)
http://open-services.net/wiki/change-management/Specification-3.0/

[7] Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Configuration Management Specification Version 1.0 (Scope)
http://open-services.net/workgroups/configuration-management/

[8] Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Asset Management Specification Version 2.0 (Final)
http://open-services.net/wiki/asset-management/OSLC-Asset-Management-2.0-Specification/

[9] Eclipse Lyo
http://eclipse.org/lyo/

[10] OASIS IPR Policy
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr/