SOA Workshop: Telecom Standards Session

This session had 4 speakers:

• Hanane Becha, OMG
• Marco Carugi, ITU-T
• Musa Unmehopa, OMA
• Tony Richardson, TM Forum

• OMG
  Possible new OASIS WGs
  Extend WS protocols to allow the expression of the non-functional properties of services and support their discovery based on their NFP, enable testing …, address OMG resulting work to support SOA push model
  Develop lightweight Process-oriented runtime languages (e.g. BPEL) for composing modern time sensitive, context-aware Telecom services
  Harmonize complimentary OMG and OASIS standards such as BPEL with OMG BPMN

• OMA
  There are some concerns in OMA regarding the real-time, carrier-grade performance of BPEL, when policy processing is transparently applied to all requests in the OSE.
  For their Web Services related activities, OMA may benefit from the input and WS expertise of the OASIS Telecom Member Section… improvements to OWSER, PEEM

• TM Forum
  SDF initiative
  Bi-lateral collaboration in progress
  Specific issues from SDF as “proposals of improvement / gaps” on OASIS standards
  NGOSS Contracts: proposed for examination by OASIS

• ITU-T SG13
  Capabilities as service enabling toolkit
  Work Item on Open Service Environment capabilities for NGN: Working on Functional requirements for OSE
  Need to enhance existing collaboration with other SDOs