Hey fellow TOC members – poke on this?  Thoughts?

A couple of questions in my mind:

• How does this relate to the proposed Runtime SIG? (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rftGB1Wkc_VcG9gz0072uCUHIddViGtLwaO4boEb4qA/edit)
• How do we look at the differences between WGs and SIGs? 
• At a procedural level SIGs are rooted with the TOC and seen as an extension.  WGs don’t have a formal relationship to the TOC.

Joe

TOC members,

On a previous TOC call there was a request for feedback from the Serverless WG as to whether or not it would be a good fit for inclusion in the new AppDelivery SIG. During last week's WG call this topic was discussed and the net result is that the WG members felt that while there is some possible overlap, the scope of the WG is different enough that the SIG would not be an appropriate home for the WG. As a concrete example, it seems as though a project like CloudEvents (which came out of the WG's work) would not be in-scope for the AppDelivery SIG. With that, the WG thinks that a separate SIG might be more appropriate.

However, the creation of a Serverless SIG might be too limited in scope. One of the things that we're noticing is that the lines between CaaS, PaaS, FaaS and Serverless are getting blurry. Which means the distinction between the various platforms, or underlying technologies for each *aaS, is becoming less clear. Instead, the differences are becoming more akin to configuration settings rather than entirely distinct platform considerations. As such, the WG felt that an "AppPlatform" SIG might be more appropriate. This SIG could then focus on the underlying hosting technologies leveraged by higher-level SIGs (such as AppDelivery). It would be something along the lines of "Topic 4" in the diagram here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gMhRz4vEwiHa3uD8DqFKHGTSxrVJNgkLG2WZWvi9lXo/edit#bookmark=id.qv45kp7nb29b

We can discuss this on a future TOC call, but if the TOC is interested in this we can take the action item to write-up a formal charter to further clarify the proposal that we have in mind.


thanks
-Doug Davis/Mark Peek/Ken Owens