On 01/07/08 15:40, Luis Villa wrote: > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:33 AM, Masayuki Hatta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Unfortunately, I don't come up with any good candidates -- possibly, >> OSSD(means the Open SaaS Definition)? I know it sounds rather bad >> and/or stupid ;-) > > Maybe SaaOS? (Software as an Open Service?) Not sure where the D goes there.
Hmm, it is not proving easy to get consensus here :) > Do we have anyone actually using the definition yet? I'm always If you mean is there anyone out there currently stating "We're compliant with the Open Service Definition" then I would guess no but that's because ... > reluctant to call things 1.0 until they've had significant amounts of > rubber-meeting-road. I don't think anyone will start using something like this until it appears fairly stable -- hence strict adherence to this principle will lead to a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation. Nevertheless, I take your point about stuff being used though I would note that the definition has seen a good amount of discussion. My impression from those discussions is that a) the core is pretty stable and includes the key features that people want to see b) while there might be some future clarifications these are likely to be minor and, as yet, there is no consensus as to what these are (e.g. around questions of dependency on external closed libraries, or around 'identity' -- something I know you've frequently commented on. Furthermore, I do think there are a fair few services already out there / about to be launched (I know Evan has several items in this category) for which the definition is highly relevant and it would be nice to have it out there in a form that people were ready to start linking to. As such I think it not unreasonable to move this to 1.0 to reflect its overall maturity and to encourage people to start using -- after all it can always be updated to 1.1 (or even 2.0!) in light of future feedback. Of course if you, or anyone else, have suggestions for mods, big or small, right now that they think are needed they would be most welcome! ~rufus _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
