Artefacts to describe services

Service Definitions

• The comments on the draft specification have been

• processed and the statement of responses approved.

  • none of the comments

• • led to fundamental

• • changes 

  • the requirements will be unaffected.

  • publication is on the way.

• supporting material

  • The supporting material will adopt the same structure and format as the other handbooks. The plan is to upload the material

• • based on what we already have and then enter the commenting/revision phase.

  • needs identified:

    • can already recuperate some of the Service Design Activities work

    • guidance on registration aspects would be appreciated, taking into account the work of the ICAO Information Management Panel

    • guidance on quality of service and quality of data

      • It is proposed to explain the options available to implementers using supporting material e.g. publishing exact figures or schedules of outages etc.

    • templates - these can evolve from Service

• • • definition template if any changes are needed

• ICAO

• • the service definition framework has been broadly accepted

  • the next step is to agree the content of an ICAO information service definition.

  • obviously we can promote our work.

Service Overviews

• We are still awaiting PANS-IM but it should be published soon.
  

  • The supporting material will be shorter and concentrate on mapping to the relevant service description requirement - service overviews are subsets of service descriptions.

  • We already have a lot of this written but it is worth a check.

Service Descriptions

• Archived v1 of the service description handbook as it should no longer be used.

• SWIM-TEC is considering if we need more on how to validate a service. Maybe this is something that will impact us e.g. the creation of test suits attached to the specifications.

  • It would be good to have the survey results presented at the next SSCONE-SITCOM meeting.

Service Metadata Schema

• no updates

Support

FAQ

• Agreed to move the following FAQs to the live page:

  • How is the quality of service documented at various service lifecycle stages?

  • How is the quality of data documented at various service lifecycle stages?

SWIM service ecosystem

Service Harmonisation Resources

• Agreed: Based on PANS-IM, the information security category

• should be added to the list of categories on the reference website.

• Agreed: Based on Quantitative Volcanic Ash Information Subscription and Request Service - Service Definition add METEOROLOGICAL_COVERAGE_ACCESS_SERVICE to https://reference.swim.aero/information-services/service-categories/CodeServiceType.html

Service Registry

• ICAO

  • ICAO IMP registry interoperability team is looking at metadata to describe services. This allows us to present the service metadata schema (and semantics).

  • The registry interoperability concept will be discussed at the IMP meeting in Montreal in April.

  • An update will be given at the next SSCONE-SITCOM.

Service Portfolio

• no updates

Service Developments

• it would be good to start collecting experiences on service developments from SSCONE-SITCOM members.