More on Governance
The ZapThink guys put on a great ZapForum today on SOA Governance with Andrew Nash from Reactivity and Sean Kline from Systinet. You may have even heard me on it if you stuck around for the Q&A portion, since Ron and Jason were kind enough to take one of my questions for about the 5th forum in a row, I think. While my last post mentioned that the key to governance was process, and not technology, I also pointed out that technology can make governance easier. If you want to get a good picture of how it can, check out the replay of this when it’s available. There were some really great nuggets in this one. Two of them that I’d like to point out:
• Ron and Jason set a goal for the future of using SOA principles to assist governance, not just governing SOA. I’ve said the same thing about Systems Management.
• Andrew and Sean actually had elements of this in their talk when they suggested using BPM/Workflow to assist in the policy setting process associated with a service invocation. This was one of the first times I’ve seen this recognized in a presentation, although I’ve had many a conversation about it.
My question for this forum was on the lack of standard policy assertion languages. To that end, OASIS has announced that they are considering forming a TC on Domain Independent Policy Assertion Languages. Progress, progress, progress…
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