Re: [ebxml-bp] 2/2/2004: Evolving Versioning Requirements - WorkItem 7 Addl

[Kenji Nagahashi <nagahashi@fla.fujitsu.com>]

Dear All,

About Work Item 7, Versioning:

I reviewed work item 7 to find original issue raised by Michael Wang was 
about "versioning of BPSS XSD schema".
Mike's point was that BPSS specification should use different namespace 
URI for different version of schema. I think this is quite easy to 
address. Here are some observations:

- BPSS 1.05 uses namespace URI "http://www.ebxml.org/BusinessProcess";.
- CPPA 2.0 uses 
"http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-cppa/schema/cpp-cpa-2_0.xsd";.

If CPPA is following OASIS convention (Do we have such a thing?), 
naturally we would use

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ebxml-bp/schema/bp-2_0.xsd

for BPSS 2.0. I believe this resolves the work item 7 and we can close 
it if everyone agrees.

And, if I understand right, recent discussions on versioning is 
completely different from this work item 7. It was not about versioning 
of BPSS specification itself, but about versioning of business process 
description written in BPSS. We should add another work item for this 
issue, I suppose. I'll post another message to describe this new work item.

Let me know if I missing something here. Thanks.

Regards,
Kenji

Monica J. Martin wrote:

> Discussion|oasis.ebBP; Topic|Work Item 7 Versioning; 
> Point|Requirements identification; mm1@ Kenji: We discussed last week
>  about versioning.  It appears we have a few evolving requirements 
> related to versioning, and our work may complement: * To identify and
>  make available key BPSS elements * To support the identification of 
> the process description (specification) * To support the 
> identification of the computable process description (schema) * To 
> support any alignment to the ebXML set of specifications
> 
> I'd encourage others to comment or revise above. Thanks. @mm1
> 
> Point|Other potential business requirements; mm1@
> 
> The potential exists to have requirements to reconcile instances and 
> namespaces. This was discussed mid-last week in another ebXML forum. 
> This may apply to BPSS instances, fragments, elements or the process 
> description.
> 
> @mm1
> 
>