DSML Teleconference Minutes September 20, 2001

[James Tauber <jtauber@bowstreet.com>]

		DSML Teleconference Minutes September 19, 2001

List of attendees:

Winston Bumpus, Chair
James Tauber
Jeff Parham
Andy Harjanto
Christine Tomlinson
Nigel Jacobs
Trey Drake (sp?)
Shon Vella
John McGarvey
Keith Attenborough
Marty Schleiff

Issue 0

James explained the OASIS process, particularly with regard to timing. In
summary, the committee must submit a final specification, along with a
statement of three successful implementation, at least 30 days prior to the
start of the calendar quarter. In other words, if the committee completes
the DSML specification by the end of November and three implementations
exists, then it can be put up for voting as an OASIS standard in the first
quarter of next year.

Issue 1: encoding of controls: string/XML/BER

1A. using "any" (as opposed to "string") allows for XML control values
    BER encoded

ACTION: Christine to draft verbage around 1A

1B. improved controls - leave open

ACTION: if someone has a proposal they can submit

ACTION: Winston to look into current work on ASN.1 -> XML mapping

Issue 2: numeric oid or ldap equivalent of nametoken

It was proposed that we stick to a straight transformation fo 2251 ASN.1 for
now and once we've made more progress on other issues and the spec itself,
if we have time can come back;

RESOLUTION: tabled

Issue 3: definition of DsmlValue

"type" in XML Schema Instance namespace to be used.

ACTION: Christine to prepare usage cases

AGREED in principle (awaiting usage cases)

Issue 4: fixed definition of substring filter

AGREED

Issue 5: Remove of objectclass as special case

AGREED

Issue 6

AGREED to rework definition of batch response so as to include
SearchReponse, and exclude SearchResultDone, SearchResultReference,
SearchResultEntry
(is this correct? - JT)

Issue 7: Errors

A. separate error response

local errors that are returned in an error response versus
individual request reponse

AGREED to go with draft of 9/19 (majority vote dissent: MSFT)

B. having a proper enumerated list

ACTION Christine to add John's list to spec

Issue 8: NumericOID or anyURI for types

AGREED to put back to just NumericOID

Issue 9: name versus desc 

Internal consistency principal goal

AGREED to use 'name'.

Issue 11: SOAP fault

AGREED to only send SOAP fault if failure at SOAP layer

Issue 12: Namespace organization

AGREED that this is important but out of scope

issue 13: one xsd or two

ACTION: Christine and Jeff to produce position paragraphs