[ebxml-cppa] Immediate updates to specification

[Martin W Sachs <mwsachs@us.ibm.com>]

We have a publicly accessible copy of the CPPA specification labeled version 2.0. If we make any changes now or to respond to comments from the OASIS public review and if the version finally approved by OASIS is also called version 2, there are is the danger that two implementations of version 2 will be based on different versions of version 2. I don't believe that people will distinguish them by approval dates or notice that one says "approved" and the other doesn't. Since some of the changes are substantive (however small), the mismatch has the potential of causing problems.

If we are going to make any changes at all now or at the end of OASIS public review, it is essential that the finally-approved specification have a version number greater than 2.

Regards,
Marty


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Martin W. Sachs
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