The SOA-RM is intended to define the term clearly and technically for developers and architects. It might be hoped that the new standard will keep SOA terminology from being hijacked by software marketers eager to make sure their latest product release is buzz-word compliant whether or not it has anything to do with the service-oriented approach to application development.
The OASIS technical committee that worked on SOA-RM described it as "an abstract framework for understanding significant entities and relationships between them within a service-oriented environment, and for the development of consistent standards or specifications supporting that environment. It is based on unifying concepts of SOA and may be used by architects developing specific service-oriented architectures or in training and explaining SOA."
