[Fiware-apps] Standards activities

[Leidig, Torsten]

Hi Pierre,

Although I really appreciate your work according to the adoption of USDL, I'm afraid that using USDL is not  considered part of standardization efforts by the reviewers. Standardization efforts are rather activities within a standardization group or activities leading towards a standardization.

Also I would say that the mediation support is not through UDSL. You use USDL rather to get or publish  information about services. The mediation itself is utilizing its own internal mediation methods, concepts and data formats. 

Anyway, I can understand that you were not concerned with standardization issues during the 1st year, just because it is too early and questionable. Maybe the Mediator will never require new standards or extensions to standards, because the purpose is rather to translate from one standard to another (e.g. protocols). That's fine for me. I just wanted to hear your (and each partners)  own opinion about this.


Thanks again for your responses!


Regards,
Torsten

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From: Pierre Châtel [chatelp at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 1:00 PM
To: Leidig, Torsten
Cc: fiware-apps at lists.fi-ware.eu; aliou.tall at thalesgroup.com; BISSON Pascal
Subject: Re: [Fiware-apps] Standards activities

Bringing our asset up to speed for USDL support is part of this standardization effort IMHO. Which was no small task indeed.

>From our side, mediation support will be offered both through USDL and REST interfaces (our asset is also geared toward SA-WSDL and OWL) to the FI-Ware infrastructure. At this point we are not pushing new standards per-se for mediation since, as you can see, existing approaches cover our work for now.

But TI and Athos should ellaborare on that from the general Mediation GE point of view. Since we are, or will be, included in the mediation effort as a whole :) So maybe they are standardization actions I'm not directly aware of, but indirectly implicated as a contributor to this GE!

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On 20 juin 2012, at 12:31, "Leidig, Torsten" <torsten.leidig at sap.com<mailto:torsten.leidig at sap.com>> wrote:

Hi Pierre,

thanks for the fast response. My question indeed was related to each partners individual contributions.
As I understand you support USDL "standards". However, are there any mediation specific standardization activities out there you focussed on and/or  contributed to?
Is the your work completely covered by existing standards?
How is it relevant for upcomming standards?

You know that in FI-Ware all partners are asked to care about standards. If no activities where done so far, we need an explanation of your approach according to standardization.

Best, Torsten

From: Pierre Châtel [chatelp at gmail.com<mailto:chatelp at gmail.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 12:18 PM
To: Leidig, Torsten
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Subject: Re: [Fiware-apps] Standards activities

Hello Torsten,

I will answer at the Thales level, maybe you were expecting something
at higher chapter level?

Thales effort on WP3 (my colleagues from other WPs/chapters will
answer for their own effort mainly on Security) has been centered on
working hand-in-hand with TI and Athos to define a first specification
deliverable of the Mediator GE.

We worked on bringing our own service mediation asset (SETHA2) to the
FI-ware level by implementing USDL support and now specifying the link
with so-called "Dynamic Mediation services" from Mediator GE
specification to come.

Regards,
Pierre

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On 20 juin 2012, at 11:58, "Leidig, Torsten" <torsten.leidig at sap.com<mailto:torsten.leidig at sap.com>> wrote:


Hi there,

I need to provide a slide about our standards activities. Could you please send me a paragraph describing your efforts. If there is nothing, you should give me some hint to defend this against the reviewers.


Regards,
Torsten

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