The paper is just a starting point for discussion on how to promulgate the federal architectural model. An IA Forum discussion topic will be created for it on GSA's IA Forum page. There are many collaborative activities ongoing governmentwide, but there is little interoperability resultant and much duplication of effort. The model is intended to be an organizing framework for these activities. He further noted that there is a strong link between what this group creates and the business process reengineering activities in the Capital IT Planning Committee and the group with the Interoperability Committee looking at cross-cutting activities.
Additional comments are welcome.
The responses will be summarized and tallied and provided as feedback to the group. Where the results go from there is up to the group. If consensus cannot be reached, he guessed the group will drop back to majority vote. The people attending the meeting have a significant vested interest in something happening at the federal level, as well as, representing a significant knowledge base. In terms of what is trying to be achieved, the actual things that happen as a result of the architecture, and the process of getting to an architectural approach are all issues the group will have to decide.