John was the primary contributor to today's call on RTx/CML
The RTx focuses on a much narrower problem set than CML
CML is an information model, RTx is meant to reconcile the same real world objects that may be referred to with different or overlapping properties
RTx is not a resource model, it is a schema to help enable CMDBf (not required for federation, but can help)
RTx is very flat. There is no inheritence in RTx. Inheritence was discussed but not implemented (may or may not be necessary, usage will determine if inheritence is desirable)
RTx consists of facets and various properties that can be used to identify the object
Discussion ensued where I (Jason) asked about how SDD could make use of RTx. John recommended to explore using general object types and compose in the needed specifity as identified
Summation was that RTx can be input to the CML group but is otherwise unrelated to CML. SDD can potentially leverage the RTx. Jason to explore further.
