NEXOF-RA Standardisation Support Franz Kudorfer, Siemens AG NEXOF-RA

Overview Open Standards... Implementation in NESSI Collaboration Meeting June 2009 Survey on Standardisation Interim Results Overview on Standardisation Topics NEXOF Standards Catalogue Request for Support Further Steps and Strategy Valencia, 12 and 13 April 2010NESSI Projects Summit

Open Standards build a foundation of NESSI and its Strategic Research Agenda … contribute to the overall interoperability of service-based applications … make the Internet of Services happen … enable wide adoption of NESSI technologies without creating barriers Valencia, 12 and 13 April 2010NESSI Projects Summit

Implementation in NESSI NESSI Standardisation Committee – Set NESSI’s positions for standardisation policies (NESSI position paper on standards in preparation) – Establish liks to standardisation bodies NEXOF-RA Standardisation Work Package – Coordinate NSP and NCP activities – Animate communication and collaboration – Give sustainable standardisation support – Ensure positioning of standards in the reference architecture Valencia, 12 and 13 April 2010NESSI Projects Summit

Collaboration Meeting June 2009 Jointly organised with Use ECSS facilities for the community Technical collaboration works well – Contribution to standards is mainly driven by institutions and individuals... – … but that is the nature of standardisation All NSP and NCP (Call 1) started to address standardisation Valencia, 12 and 13 April 2010NESSI Projects Summit

Survey on Standardisation Provide transparency of contributions from NESSI projects to standardization initiatives and standards organizations Provide the basis for agreed actions All NSP and NCP invited – also others may contribute Give details about – standards organization and standard – standards contribution and status – relation to NESSI and NEXOF Valencia, 12 and 13 April 2010NESSI Projects Summit

Preliminary Survey Results 7 projects submitted answers All increased their activities 2 projects have close collaboration Variety of topics Relation to NEXOF-RA top level patterns – To be further detailed (consolidation loop) – Some not directly related (orthogonal topics) Often project participants directly involved in standards committees etc. Valencia, 12 and 13 April 2010NESSI Projects Summit

Standardisation Areas I BPEL Extensions for Compliant Services Compliance Request Language SOA-RM - Evidence Model Web Services Modeling Ontology Semantic Annotation of Restful Services Reference Ontology for Semantic Service Oriented Architectures Semantic Execution Environment Reference Architecture Valencia, 12 and 13 April 2010NESSI Projects Summit

Standardisation Areas II Device Description Repository Simple Delivery Context Ontology WS-Agreement V2.0 WS-Agreement Negotiation Open Cloud Computing Interface Open Virtualization Format V1.1.0 Extended Access Control Mark-up Language SoaML - UML Profile and Metamodel for Services To be continued … Valencia, 12 and 13 April 2010NESSI Projects Summit

NEXOF Standards Catalogue 12/10/ available on

Request for Support To the community – STREPS have limited resources – requesting support in bringing their specifications into standardisation To NSP / NCP – Further contributions – Update of contributions To the auditory – Use NESSI Summit for networking on standards – Visit presentations, workshops and exhibition Valencia, 12 and 13 April 2010NESSI Projects Summit

Further Steps and Strategy Consolidate survey results – Contribution still possible – Update evaluation (End of April 2010) – Deliverable in NEXOF-RA (End June) – Present on ECSS Establish contacts to standards bodies – Create awareness on NESSI and NEXOF Introduce FP7 Call 5 projects – Collaboration Meeting October 2010 Repeat survey regularly Valencia, 12 and 13 April 2010NESSI Projects Summit

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