Proposed Functional Elements Areas

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ProposedFunctional Elements Areas

• Towards FE Specs 2.0

For FESC Discussion on 20 April 2005
Tan Puay Siew
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Major FESC Milestones
FE Specs, Comm. Draft Ver 2.0 30 Nov
Public Review of FE Specs 1.0 May 2005
FE RI-02 RI-03 28 Sep
FWSI Forum Apr 06
Towards FE Standard
FE RI-01 16 Mar
Jan-Mar
Apr-Jun
Jul-Sep
Oct-Dec
Jan-Mar
2005
2006

• This serves as a guide of working towards the
  major goals
• At each quarter, a more detailed schedule will be
  mapped

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Recap - Initial Requirements Categories
Management
Process

• Management relates to aspects of managing
  resources under the purview of the application,
  in a distributed environment.
• Examples
• Users Identity,
• Events,
• Services (Monitoring, Logging, Auditing)

• Process relates to requirements arising out of a
  series of operations performed in either a
  sequential or a parallel manner in completing a
  business process.
• Examples
• Aggregation
• Integration
• Workflow

Application
Common
Delivery
Security

• Security relates to aspects of securing a
  web-service enabled application over the open
  network (in particular the Internet)
• Examples
• Authentication Authorisation
• Non-repudiation
• Integrity
• Confidentiality
• Trust

• Delivery covers aspects of conveying,
• producing or transferring content to desired
  destinations in the preferred format or manner.
• Examples
• Delivery Channels
• Transport Protocols
• Supported Formats Devices

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Recap - Categories in FE Specs v1.0

• Management
• Areas Covered Management of Resources,
  Management of Access to Resources
• Rather exhaustive, but always open to more
  suggestions
• Process
• Areas Covered Worklow, Invocation
• Need more, especially in area of business process
  management
• Delivery
• Areas Covered 3rd form (transformation of SOAP
  msgs into preferred format)
• The 1st (mapping of inputs/outputs between
  services) and 2nd (transformation of SOAP into an
  acceptable native format) forms are not covered
• Question do we need to cover them?
• Security
• Areas Covered Protecting Users Identity,
  Securing Data Exchange and Safeguarding Resources
• Any other new areas to look at?

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Proposed New Sub-Areas
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Workplan for FESC version 2.0
FE Specs, Comm. Specs Ver 2.0 30 Nov
Requirements Doc, ver. 2.0 21 Sep
Call for Contribution _at_FWSI Forum 06 Apr
FE Specs, WD-02-01 19 Oct
FE Specs, WD-02-02 16 Nov (For Voting)
FE List Completed 20 Jul
FE Areas/List 18 May
Towards FE Standard
Apr-Jun
Jul-Sep
Oct-Dec
Jan-Mar
2006
FE RI-02 RI-03 28 Sep

• Work Sequence
• Call for contributions on Potential Area/FEs
• Requirements Consolidation
• FE Specs Voting as Com. Specs.