OWS Quality of Service ad hoc			
18th August 2016 at 6-8 pm Finnish summer time (EEST)
Online using OGC GotoMeeting

Present:
●	Ilkka Rinne (IR, Spatineo, chair)
●	Luis Bermudez (LB, OGC)
●	Michael Gordon (MG, Ordnance Survey)
●	Emmanuel Mondon (EM, AdviceGEO)
Meeting minutes

1. Opening

The meeting was opened by IR (chair) at 18:15 EEST

2. Approval of minutes of the last meeting

The draft minutes were taken down by IR and were made available in the group's wiki space and in the Meetings folder of the project in the OGC Portal (see https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=69814).

The draft  minutes were accepted with no discussion.

3. Presentation: Copernicus World Alliance use cases (EM)

Michelle Anthony was not present, so the FGDC Status Checker presentation was postponed. Instead EM presented the overall idea and use cases related to the EO product/service market place functionality, related to describing the offered services and their QoS and service level agreements.

The presentation is available in the OGC Portal meeting folder at https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=70168

MG commented that the general layered architecture presented had a lot similarities with the ones he had faced in the Ordnance Survey. Especially the cases of harmonising and communicating the SLAs and QoS measurements across the components of a distributed systems were highly relevant.

EM asked if the group felt that the product descriptions for the multiple-marketplace use cases would fit in the group’s focus. IR expressed a doubt that these kind of product descriptions might be a bit far from the group’s business case. LB argued that if the market place use cases would be presented at a reasonable generic level, they should fit in. It was agreed that at a general level the harmonisation of the service descriptions for marketplace applications could fit in the group’s scope.

4. Use cases for the DWG

IR quickly presented the status of the use cases list in the wiki. MG noted that he had added content to some of the use case descriptions. EM had had some technical trouble with using the wiki, but those were solved with the kind guidance of LB. EM said he would add one or more use cases to the list.

LB also asked if it would make sense to organise the use cases into the ones considering more technical quality of service and to less technical quality of experience. IR argued that the current list is not that long yet, and it would take some effort to do this categorisation, as some of the current cases may cover both aspects.

It was decided to keep the structure as-is for now, and do the necessary harmonisation and categorization at a later point. 

5. DWG charter drafting

IR had moved the DWG charter template into the wiki (http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/QualityOfService/GroupCharter). For now only minor edits had been made.

LB noted that the most important things to get nailed down in the charter are the problem statement and purpose of the group.

IR promised to deliver the initial version of the charter by the Monday 22nd August, and send the link to it to the mailing list for comments. MG promised to dedicate time for drafting the charter during the following few weeks.

It was agreed that an online working meeting for charter drafting would be held in week 36 (5th - 9th September). IR will create a Doodle poll for the meeting date and time.

EM noted that for pronounceability the group name abbreviation QoSE DWG would be better than QoSX DWG. IR agreed.

6. Agenda for the meeting in Orlando TC

IR presented his initial ideas about the agenda for the Orlando ad hoc meeting held on the early morning of Tuesday 20th September at 08:15 - 10:00 AM EDT. The main focus will be in discussing the group focus, purpose and other charter drafting related issues.

LB promised to help in meeting practicalities on the spot, as IR will only be able to join remotely. MG also said that he is able to attend the Orlando meeting in person. EM said that he would only be able to join remotely.

IR will send the agenda and call for presentations to the ows-qos.adhoc and TC Announce lists. 

7. Next meeting

The next online meeting will be held on week 36 as agreed by Doodle.

8. Closing

The meeting was closed by IR at 19:15 EEST