RE: New top goal proposal: Management and SLA

I am happy to explicitly state SLA as part of D-AC0018.  However, I feel
that SLA is more like at the usage level.  The implied purpose of D-AC0018
is that people can manage web services, reach SLA, and even evaluate web
services independently, and do other things (services integration, ...).
 
Basically, once you have a standard set of metrics and management, you can
do heaps of things (and SLA is just one of them).  
 
Hao
 
 
 
 -----Original Message-----
From: Sedukhin, Igor [mailto:Igor.Sedukhin@ca.com]
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 11:50 PM
To: Hao He; www-ws-arch@w3.org
Subject: RE: New top goal proposal: Management and SLA



Service Level Agreements are not part of D-AC0018. Management
instrumentation is needed to ensure SLAs, reliabiliy is usually one of the
parameters of an SLA. And while I have no problems with Reliability being a
top goal for other reasons, I propose to have *SLA* and Management as
another top goal. D-AC0018 is altogether part 4.1 of my proposal.

Again, I'm primarily concerned about *agreements* and management
instrumetation/metrics being a way to maintain an agreement.

-- Igor Sedukhin .. (Igor.Sedukhin@ca.com) 
-- (631) 342-4325 .. 1 CA Plaza, Islandia, NY 11788 



-----Original Message----- 
From: Hao He [ mailto:Hao.He@thomson.com.au <mailto:Hao.He@thomson.com.au> ]

Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 7:27 PM 
To: Sedukhin, Igor; www-ws-arch@w3.org 
Subject: RE: New top goal proposal: Management and SLA 


I believe this is what D-AC0018 was originally intended for.  
  
Hao 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Sedukhin, Igor [ mailto:Igor.Sedukhin@ca.com
<mailto:Igor.Sedukhin@ca.com> ] 
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 3:03 AM 
To: www-ws-arch@w3.org 
Subject: New top goal proposal: Management and SLA 



I was reading our requirements document and realized that there is not a
proper attention being paid to a very important aspect of a service:
agreements between a user and the owner. This is not any less important
element than security for that sake. How can business components comprise a
"digital economy" without agreements?

Now, agreements have to be established, maintained, accounted for, and may
be enforced. Management metrics/instrumentation is merely "how" details of a
bigger goal, and the Reliability is an intermediate effect/characteristic.

Reliability goal has other aspects in messaging, etc. and while I do not
want to contend with it in any way, I'd like to pull Manageability and SLAs
higher on the stack. Here is my proposal for the new top goal.

Goal: Manageability and Service Agreements 
Web Services Architecture must provide a manageable environment for
establishing, maintaining and enforcing Service Level Agreements.

Critical success factors for this goal are: 
To develop standard reference architecture for Web Services that: 

1. Identifies how to express SLAs and associate them with Web services 
1.1 Service usage policies 
1.2 Web service licensing standards 
1.3 Identify technical/legal boundary 

2. Identifies automatic/manual SLA negotiation process 

3. Identifies how agreements are established and preserved 
3.1 License persistence and verification procedures 
3.2 Privacy of SLAs 
3.3 Integrity and non-repudiation of SLAs 

4. Identifies management/instrumentation/metrics standards/technologies
necessary to meter and account for service usage

4.1 - subsume/reference D-AC018 

5. Identifies procedures/standards necessary to maintain the agreement 
5.1. Identify technology/commerce boundary 

6. Identifies SLA enforcement procedures 
6.1 Usage/metrics reconciliation procedures 
6.2 Attempt/provide for automatic conflict resolution 
6.3 Identify technology/legal boundary 

-- Igor Sedukhin .. (Igor.Sedukhin@ca.com) 
-- (631) 342-4325 .. 1 CA Plaza, Islandia, NY 11788