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Objective of Meeting

Wednesday was devoted to architecting solutions for High-Assurance and Mission-Assurance with particular focus on extending the TOGAF ADM to the platform and high-assurance domains.  The primary objective was to present ideas via a draft presentation and reach consensus on the benefits and the advocated methodology for extending TOGAF to accommodate high-assurance environments and architects.

Summary

The morning session in the RT&ES Forum: Extending TOGAF with High Assurance Issues Workshop was facilitated by Ed Roberts of Elparazim. Ed is a consultant, teacher, and developer of architecture and software for various clients including the US Department of Defense.

This session was a combination of a presentation of the overall discussion of TOGAF and its use within the RT&ES community to support an architectural process for the Forum.

Specifically, requested changes to TOGAF that would allow TOGAF to be easily tailored for use in our industry, were presented to the Forum. The main thrust of the workshop was to gather consensus on what things in TOGAF needed to be extended to make the use of TOGAF a reality in the RT&ES world.

Ed Roberts presented the RT&ES perspective.

There were, throughout the session, lively discussions with valuable participation from Judith Jones, from the Architecture Forum, John Rushby, Carolyn Boettcher, and Edwin Lee from the RT&ES Forum.  Ed Roberts captured some of the RT&ES mission-critical requirements for input as the Forum progresses this work.

Edwin Lee captured some of the discussions in a short presentation, which began to form the basis of an RT&ES Reference Framework.

Edwin Lee is a Senior Principal Systems Engineer and a Certified Enterprise Architect at Raytheon, also an Open Group Certified Architect and a member of AOGEA. Edwin has been an Engineer for over 20 years working on RT&ES, Software and Digital Electronics development, DoD Architecture including the deployment of Open Systems, and Mission-Critical SOA for Net-Centric Operations. Edwin is currently serving as the Vice-Chair of the RT&ES Forum at The Open Group.

Outputs

Ed Roberts finalized the RT&ES Forum suggested approach for extending TOGAF which he was to present at the Joint Architecture, RT&ES, Security Forum and the SOA Work Group on Thursday morning. Edwin Lee produced a draft RTE&S Reference Model approach for future vetting.

Next Steps

Work with the Architecture Forum to agree an approach for evolving TOGAF for use by high-assurance architects, and specifically to advocate for modeling and tooling TOGAF.

Edwin to present the Reference Model at a future meeting to further refine and specify RT&ES-specific elements/requirements for TOGAF.

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