W3C WS Choreography WG Conference Call

MINUTES

9nd Sept 2003, 1pm PDT

 

Agenda

1.     Role Call
2.     Confirm scribe

The following is a list of recent scribes (in order): John Dart, Monica Martin, Tony, Fletcher, Jim Hendler, Kevin Liu, Tony Fletcher, Jon Dart, David Burdett, Ed Peters, Greg Ritzinger, Monica Martin, Len Greski, Jean-Jacques Dubray, Monica Martin, Mayilraj Krishnan, Francis McCabe, Michael Champion, Abbie Barbir, David Burdett, Jon Dart, Carol McDonald, Yaron Goland, Leonard Greski, Ed Peters, Greg Ritzinger, Daniel Austin, Peter Furniss, Jim Hendler

3.     Approve minutes
              Minutes 2nd September 2003

         

4.Action Item Review
   Actions from last week marked with *

 

Organisational

ACTION: Chairs, Oversee the organisation of the task forces. 

ACTION*: MC to send draft F2F agenda

ACTION*: Discuss F2F in Dec next meeting

 

 

Usecases/requirements

 

ACTION: David Burdett to provide a design collaboration use case.

ACTION: Martin to propose text for call-back use case.

ACTION*: SRT to send most recent requirements spreadsheet to the list

 

BurdettML

 

ACTION: DB to produce a commentary on how Burdett ML meets (or not) the current requirements.

            LATEST: Ongoing to determine if this meets our requirements and identify gaps. Analysis paper will be finished by David Burdett prior to the September meeting and he will try to post beforehand.

 

Issues

ACTION: SRT to send mail to the Semantics tag as to what he is looking for to initiate the discussion on semantics in the WS-Choreography language.

            LATEST (NEW ACTION): SRT Brought semantics question to the TAG. On chairs coordination call, he asked about semantics for/of choreography. A new Semantic Web Services Interest Group is being formed in about one month. Issue will be sent to that group when it is formed.

ACTION*: Group will review Bugzilla issues list

 

 

5.     Standing tracking items (a section designed to ensure that longer running items are properly tracked)

 

-Requirements – next steps (progress/review)
.Mission Statement
.  CSF Analysis
.    Use cases
. Requirements listing
-   Issue tracking (progress/review)
. Major issues to report
- Task forces – next steps (progress/review)
. Task list
.   Membership

 

6.    Face2Face in Seattle 

                   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-ws-chor/2003Sep/att-0009/SEPT03_F2F_DRAFT_AGENDA.htm

7.Threads (on the archive not covered elsewhere in the agenda)
               - Web Service awareness of choreography
                               First in thread, latest
-Correlation requirements
First in thread, latest
- Simultaneous execution
First in thread, latest
-Off topic (catch all)
                         First in thread, latest
8.     AOB.

 

Role Call:

 

Chairs

 

Steve Ross-Talbot

Enigmatec

 Martin Chapman

Oracle

W3C Staff Contacts

 

Yves Lafon

 

 

 

 

 

Attendees:

 

Yaron Goland

BEA Systems

Anthony Fletcher

Choreology Ltd

David Burdett

Commerce One

Francis McCabe

Fujitsu Ltd

Yoko Seki

Hitachi, Ltd.

Assaf Arkin

Intalio Inc.

Abbie Barbir

Nortel Networks

Greg Ritzinger

Novell

Kevin Liu

SAP AG

Ugo Corda

SeeBeyond Technology Corporation

Michael Champion

Software AG

Carol McDonald

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Monica Martin

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Jon Dart

TIBCO Software

Nickolas Kavantzas

Oracle Corporation

Jean-Jacques Dubray

Attachmate

 

 

·       Raw IRC log at: http://www.w3.org/2003/09/09-ws-chor-irc  (TO BE CHECKED)

Appointment of scribe:

 

Jean-Jacques Dubray, of Attachmate. kindly volunteered to scribe for the meeting.

 

The following is a list of recent scribes (in order): John Dart, Monica Martin, Tony, Fletcher, Jim Hendler, Kevin Liu, Tony Fletcher, Jon Dart, David Burdett, Ed Peters, Greg Ritzinger, Monica Martin, Len Greski, Jean-Jacques Dubray, Monica Martin, Mayilraj Krishnan, Francis McCabe, Michael Champion, Abbie Barbir, David Burdett, Jon Dart, Carol McDonald, Yaron Goland, Leonard Greski, Ed Peters, Greg Ritzinger, Daniel Austin, Peter Furniss, Jim Hendler

 

 

 

Minutes Approval

Minutes 2nd September 2003. Approved.

Action Item Review

   Actions from last week (2nd Sep 2003) marked with *

 

Organisational

ACTION: Chairs, Oversee the organization of the task forces. 

            – ON GOING

ACTION*: MC to send draft F2F agenda

            - DONE (see below)

ACTION*: Discuss F2F in Dec next meeting

            - DONE

 

 

Usecases/requirements

 

ACTION: David Burdett to provide a design collaboration use case.

            - NO PROGRESS

ACTION: Martin to propose text for call-back use case.

            - DEFERRED TO Seattle F2F

ACTION*: SRT to send most recent requirements spreadsheet to the list

            - NO PROGRESS

 

BurdettML

 

ACTION: DB to produce a commentary on how Burdett ML meets (or not) the current requirements.

            LATEST: Ongoing to determine if this meets our requirements and identify gaps. Analysis paper will be finished by David Burdett prior to the September meeting and he will try to post beforehand.

-       ON GOING

NEW ACTION:  David will deliver BurdettML proposal

 

Issues

ACTION: SRT to send mail to the Semantics tag as to what he is looking for to initiate the discussion on semantics in the WS-Choreography language.

            LATEST (NEW ACTION): SRT Brought semantics question to the TAG. On chairs coordination call, he asked about semantics for/of choreography. A new Semantic Web Services Interest Group is being formed in about one month. Issue will be sent to that group when it is formed.

ACTION*: Group will review Bugzilla issues list

MC pointed out that it would be very useful if people would come forward at the f2f to pull out issues they are interested in.

NEW ACTION:  We should start using bugzilla effectively. This will be on the agenda for the next meeting. 

 

Standing tracking items (a section designed to ensure that longer running items are properly tracked)

 

 

-Requirements – next steps (progress/review)

SRT pointed out that Daniel is not on the call, he also will not be at the f2f.
NEW ACTION:
 Members of the group must read the requirements Document before the F2F.
MC pointed out that we should defer all requirement work and discussion to the f2f.

-   Issue tracking (progress/review)
- Task forces – next steps (progress/review)

NEW ACTION: Address the requirements with respect to the taskforces at the Seattle F2F. Chairs to place on agenda. We need to reconcile the requirements with the taskforces at the f2f, since they are implementing the requirements.

 

Face2Face in Seattle

                   Draft Agenda for F2F

 

MC: We could move liaison discussion to accomodate Tony's presentation on BCS
Monica: Are we going to talk about liaison in general?

MC: Yes, we have only set up one at the moment. We could talk about other liaisons. One of the taskforces are required to look at other work (BCF)
MC: There are several forms of liaising, it is not just a harvesting activity, but also understand what the relationship should be. At the taskforce level, harvesting is enough

MC: The location should be Bellevue and not Belmont.

NEW ACTION: SRT to change the location from Belmont to Bellevue.

SRT: I hear no other changes of the agenda.

MC: We need to talk about Dial-in to the f2f. Are there any specific timeslots? Should the bridge be open all the  time?
NEW ACTION:
 Members should send an email about dial-in requirements so that we can organize it ahead of time.

CM: F2F conflicts with sun network conference so I will not attend or dial in.

 

SRT: Let’s move to the December F2F: the main issue is where? Currently it is Australia for the week of the 15th of December
 

SRT: Another issue is that BPEL will probably not be in Australia.
SRT: There is also another possibility to do it in Philadelphia along with XML 2003 conference
MC: We need concrete offers to host the meeting
YL: Remember the 8 weeks rule
MC: There is some requirements to go outside the US since all the meetings have happened in the US
MC: So far, we only have one offer
YL: I would be happy to go to australia, as I will be in japan at roughly the same time
SRT: What about Sophia Antipolis?
CM: Australia sounds good to me
YL: There will be a technical plenary on February so it would cover Europe at that time.
CM: Sophia would be great
 

Threads (on the archive not covered elsewhere in the agenda)

               - Web Service awareness of choreography
                             First in thread, latest
 

DB: if you have a web service that can behave in a predictable/deterministic way then it can take part in a choreography. However, most services have to be choreography aware since one can have complex and content based behavior

 

ChairNote: Segway into Correlation (I think)

 

-Correlation requirements

            First in thread, latest

 

FM: architecture should not require that choreography data be embedded in the messages

FM: the reason for having a CDL is to help designers and architects to put together their systems. In this case, the choreography management is already implemented in the ws agent

YG: all parties negotiate before hand because the code base is very brittle

YG: the scope: a spec is done when there is nothing left to "cut"

YG: variably of the choreography can be dealt with at the application layer

YG: we don't try to specify which branch of choreography is going to happen

JD: there is a point that keeps getting lost. At the implementation level you have a need for correlation id

YG: hear hear!

JD: ws-addressing would fulfill the requirements for this for instance this is part of a service description, WSDL and its extension mechanism can be used to describe how the parties are communicating. We should be able to punt this problem. It is at a different level.

DB: not suggesting to develop negotiation protocols

YG: thinks the feature can wait until V2.

YG: also thinks that in practice the URI you are talking to specifies which choreography you are talking to.

DB: Once we have a choreography definition, it would be useful, to identify specific message content that unambiguously determine which part of the choreography will happen

MC: the requirements is that given an incoming message you can relate it back to a message defined in the choreography definition

DB: if correlation can be given by some other spec, this is great

YG: disagrees, the URI binding can specify the choreography so there is no ambiguity.

DB: we cannot "punt" on the problem, we have to related how other specs can be used in the context of ws-chor

JD: not specifying things allows for layering, which is good ..

TF: If you use CD at design time, you don't need to use it at run-time

TF: Need to identify what instance a message relates to.

TF: so the fundamental problem is how a CD is actually used

FM: A large driver for CDL is at design time. But not ruling out to use it at run-time

FM: a large fraction of the value should be come from non choreography aware systems.

MC: there is a need at some level to express the decisions you make at the deployment level

MC: we have to have a way of anotating the CDL to capture this information

MC: there is going to come a point where we need to do everything that's needed in 18 months

SRT: "what it is you bind to" needs to be specified. Kind of dynamic MDA

TF: two different ways of achieving interoperability

TF: 1) keep it simple ("cut" as much options as you can)

TF: 2) ebXML, there is a situation like BPSS can be used at design and run-time.

TF: BPSS has a lot of variability, the way this is solved is buy separating the CD from the implementation binding (specified in the CPPA)

SRT: would be nice to be express the binding at a higher level, express what the requirements are for execution

DB: Middleware needs to identify when a message comes in: a) CDL, b)...   c) which instance of the choreography it is related too

DB: CDL should be able to use at run-time, therefore, we should specify run-time specific parameters

MM: CPPA is currently defining WSDL definitions

MM: this could be used for ws-chor

MC: we need to focuss back on requirements, look at what we need for version 1 and defer fansier features to later

 

ChairNote: Not sure we got to this item from the notes above.

- Simultaneous execution
First in thread, latest
-Off topic (catch all)
                         First in thread, latest

AOB.

NEW ACTION: Directions to attachmate MC/JJD

 

Summary of actions

 

NEW ACTIONS

NEW ACTION:  David will deliver BurdettML proposal

 

NEW ACTION:  We should start using bugzilla effectively. This will be on the agenda for the next meeting. 

NEW ACTION:  Members of the group must read the requirements Document before the F2F.

NEW ACTION: Address the requirements with respect to the taskforces at the Seattle F2F. Chairs to place on agenda. We need to reconcile the requirements with the taskforces at the f2f, since they are implementing the requirements.

NEW ACTION: SRT to change the location from Belmont to Bellevue.

NEW ACTION:  Members should send an email about dial-in requirements so that we can organize it ahead of time.

NEW ACTION: Directions to attachmate MC/JJD

 

ACTIONS FROM LAST WEEK

ACTION*: MC to send draft F2F agenda

            - DONE  Draft Agenda

ACTION*: Discuss F2F in Dec next meeting

            - DONE

ACTION*: SRT to send most recent requirements spreadsheet to the list

            - NO PROGRESS

ACTION*: Group will review Bugzilla issues list.

 

OLDER ACTIONS

ACTION: Chairs, Oversee the organization of the task forces. 

            – ON GOING

ACTION: David Burdett to provide a design collaboration use case.

            - NO PROGRESS

ACTION: Martin to propose text for call-back use case.

            - DEFERRED TO Seattle F2F

ACTION: DB to produce a commentary on how Burdett ML meets (or not) the current requirements.

ACTION: SRT to send mail to the Semantics tag as to what he is looking for to initiate the discussion on semantics in the WS-Choreography language.

            LATEST (NEW ACTION): SRT Brought semantics question to the TAG. On chairs coordination call, he asked about semantics for/of choreography. A new Semantic Web Services Interest Group is being formed in about one month. Issue will be sent to that group when it is formed.