MnM Minutes CC 20090320

M&M Conference Call Noon Eastern Time (Date above)

Attendance

• Lloyd McKenzie
• Woody Beeler
• Austin Kreisler
• Andy Stechishin
• Bernard Jackson
• Craig Parker
• Dave Carlson
• Gregg Seppala
• Patrick Loyd
• Ioana Singureanu
• Galen Mulrooney
• Mead Walker
• Dale Nelson
• Adam Flinton
• Leslie

Agenda

• Graphical Representation of RMIMs (continued)

Minutes

• We will review any MnM harmonization proposals next week.

Graphical Representation of RMIMs

• Two questions to answer today:
  • Will we support multiple formats?
  • What graphical format(s) will be acceptable?

Will we support multiple formats?

• Gregg asked if the agreed upon formats would be used for services. The response was that the current discussion only concerns diagrams
• Mead stated that it would probably be best to have one format so people reading the models would only have to understand one representation.
• Ioana asked if the RIM would be represented in the agreed upon format. This question was deemed to be out of scope for today's discussion.
• We did a straw poll of preferred formats (people could vote for more than one format). There were 7 votes for A, 8 votes for B, and 1 vote for C.
  • Both A and B require on standardized graphical format, but B also allows for the publishing of additional formats.
  • As use cases were discussed there seemed to be a consensus toward option B.
  • Woody questioned about whether alternate formats are really needed for normative ballots. Not having alternate formats in the normative material would NOT prevent them from being used in other settings.
• From a methodology perspective, we agree to support multiple formats.
• We will seek publishing's input on how to support alternate formats.

What graphical format(s) will be acceptable?

• Lloyd discussed some of the issues around representing choices in other formalisms such as UML.

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