Scope of work

The OASIS Telecom Member Section will consider the following topics to be included in its scope:

• Development of telecommunications SOA-oriented standards to support a range of flexible business models
• Organization of the telecommunications service layer as a service oriented architecture, in which composition of IT services and telecommunications resources can support synchronous and asynchronous interactions:
  • Creation of capabilities for composite telecommunications/IT services
  • Development of capabilities such as fine grained call control, multimedia control, conference control, service associated policy management, etc.
  • Addressing deficiencies in existing specifications, e.g., to align the existing APIs into the composite service model
  • Evaluation of use of BPEL- and WSDL/XPATH-based composite service toolkits in the composite services space, and inclusion of policy, security, and other bolt-on APIs
  • Exposure of wire-line, wireless, mobile, and fixed telecommunications resources as Web services
• Development of techniques and frameworks for integrating telecommunications services with content-based and context-aware services, e.g., dynamic invocation of network capabilities based on the content of the information being exchanged (on-the-fly service composition), or based on time-of-day, user profile, location, user device capabilities, etc.
• Support for end user service personalization and privacy management
• Support of Web services and SOA aspects in service mobility
• Support of Identity portability, mobility, management, interoperability, and information assurance
• Development of WS specifications for expediting interchange of specific structured information among telecommunications Operations Support System (OSS) components, with a particular focus on reducing the number of discrete messages required
• Evaluation of telecommunications-based requirements of the existing and emerging Web services specifications for distributed management (WSDM, WS-Management, and ongoing related specification work), and how they tie to underlying information models, e.g., the Common Information Model (CIM)
• Development of infrastructure for service discovery and deployment of components such as cross-domain component access and service exposure layer
• Support of service creation and service life-cycle management (execution, monitoring, initiate charging)
• Support for dynamic Service Composition
• Support of service access control and trust management such as the creation of Federated policy-based access control methods
• Support of dynamic SLA enforcement for composite services, measurement of QOS and links to business process
• Support of Policy management working with policy engines and policy languages
• Developments for Service Description Languages (examine existing languages, identify gaps and/or extensions, define descriptions for failure modes, reliability, and ontology of the service)
• Development of Meta-Models and Model Driven Architecture approaches, data-driven models, and information models
• Validation, verification, and testing of services in an SOA environment to verify, offer, and comply with SLAs, particularly for composite services
• Integration of new standards into a Telecommunications SOA framework, creating an ecosystem for incubating new telecommunications services based upon new standards or specifications that may emerge from other sources.