SOA ecosystem; and the Ownership in a SOA Ecosystem view which focuses on what is meant to own a SOA-based system. The SOA-RAF is of value to Enterprise Architects, Business and IT Architects as well as CIOs and other senior executives involved in strategic business and IT planning. Status: This document was last revised or approved by the OASIS Service Oriented Architecture Reference Model TC on the above date. The level of approval is also listed above. Technical Committee members should send comments on this specification to the Technical Committee’s email list. Others should send comments to the Technical Committee by using the “” button on the Technical Committee’s web page at . For information on whether any patents have been disclosed that may be essential to implementing this specification, and any offers of patent licensing please refer to the Intellectual Property Rights section of the Technical Committee web page (). Citation format: When referencing this specification the following citation format should be used: [SOA-RAF] Reference Architecture Foundation for Service Oriented Architecture Version 1.0. 01 August 2012. OASIS Committee Specification Draft 04 / Public Review Draft 03.
Acknowledgements The following individuals have participated in the work of the technical committee responsible for creation of this specification and are gratefully acknowledged: Participants: Chris Bashioum, MITRE Corporation Rex Brooks, Individual Member Peter F Brown, Individual Member Scott Came, Search Group Inc. Joseph Chiusano, Booz Allen Hamilton Robert Ellinger, Northrop Grumman Corporation David Ellis, Sandia National Laboratories Jeff A. Estefan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Don Individual Member Anil John, Johns Hopkins University Ken Laskey, Corporation Lublinsky, Nokia Corporation Francis G. McCabe, Individual Member Christopher McDaniels, USSTRATCOM Tom Merkle, Lockheed Martin Corporation Jyoti Namjoshi, Patni Computer Systems Ltd. Duane Nickull, Adobe Inc. James Odell, Associate Michael Poulin, Fidelity Investments Kevin Smith, Individual Member Michael Stiefel, Associate Danny Thornton, Northrop Grumman Timothy Vibbert, Lockheed Martin Corporation Robert Vitello, New York Dept. of The committee would particularly like to underline the significant writing and conceptualization contributions made by Chris Bashioum, Rex Brooks, Peter Brown, Dave Ellis, Jeff Estefan, Ken Laskey, Boris Lublinsky, Frank McCabe, Michael Poulin, Kevin Smith and Danny Thornton
Index of Defined Terms Action 40 Action Real World Effect 51 26 Authority 28 Business functionality 30 Business solution 38 Capability 31 Communication 36 Composability 38 Constitution 25 Consumer 29 Contract 36 Delegate 26 Endpoint 65 Governance 81 Governance Framework 82 Governance Processes 82 Identifier 32 Joint Action 40 Leadership 82 Logical Framework 76 Manageability 100 Manageability property 100 Mediator 29 Message Exchange 68 Need 31 Non-Participant 26 Obligation 29 Operations 68 29 Ownership 33 Ownership Boundary 33 Participant 26 Permission 28 Policy 35 Policy Conflict 77 Policy Conflict Resolution 77 Policy Constraint 76 Policy Decision 76 Policy Enforcement 77 Policy Framework 75 Policy Object 76 Policy Ontology 76 Policy 76 Policy Subject 76 Presence 65 Private State 41 Protocol 65 Provider 29 Real World Effect 31 Regulation 83 Requirement 31 Resource 32 Responsibility 28 Right 28 Risk 34 Rule 83 Security 90 Semantic Engagement 37 Service Contract 104 Service Level Real World Effect 51 Shared State 41 SOA Ecosystem 22 SOA-based System 22 Social Structure 24 Stakeholder 26 41 34 Willingness 34