WSRP v2.0 Submitted for OASIS Standard

["Mary McRae" <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>]

OASIS Members:

The OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) Technical Committee has
submitted the following specification, which is an approved Committee
Specification, to be considered as an OASIS Standard:

Web Services for Remote Portlets Specification v2.0

The text of the TC submission is appended.

You now have until 15 March to familiarize yourself with the submission and
provide input to your organization's voting representative.

On 16 March, a Call For Vote will be issued to all Voting Representatives of
OASIS member organizations. They will have until the last day of March,
inclusive, to cast their ballots on whether this Committee Specification should
be approved as an OASIS Standard or not.

Members who wish to discuss this ballot may do so through
member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org.

In accordance with the OASIS Technical Committee Process, this Committee
Specification has already completed the necessary 60-day public review period as
noted in the submission below.

The normative TC Process for approval of Committee Specifications as OASIS
Standards is found at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#s3.4

Any statements related to the IPR of this specification are posted at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wsrp/ipr.php

Your participation in the review and balloting process is greatly appreciated.

Mary

Mary P McRae
Manager of TC Administration, OASIS
email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
phone: 603.232.9090

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As a result of a vote of the WSRP Technical Committee that closed on February 8,
2008, and is recorded in the Kavi system at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=1415, the chair hereby
submits the Web Services for Remote Portlet v2.0 Specification (approved in a
ballot recorded at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=1411) for
consideration as an OASIS Standard. 

 (a) Links to the approved Committee Specification. The specification is
composed of the following components: 
Web Services for Remote Portlets Specification v2.0
HTML: http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-spec-cs-02.html 
PDF: http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-spec-cs-02.pdf
XML Schema: http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-types.xsd
WSDL:
- Interfaces: http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-interfaces.wsdl
- Bindings: http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-bindings.wsdl 

(b) The editable version of the specification document is the HTML version. 

(c) Certification by the TC that all schema and XML instances included in the
specification, whether by inclusion or reference, including fragments of such,
are well formed, and that all expressions are valid.
The HTML, schema and wsdl files have all been validated as well-formed documents
of their type. 

(d) A clear English-language summary of the specification.

WSRP version 2 extends the version 1 definitions to support more advanced use
cases; namely: 
.	Coordination between components 
.	Ability to move customized portlets across registration and machine
boundaries 
.	Mechanism for describing protocol extensions 
.	Support for leasing of resources 
.	In-band means of getting resources 
.	Support for the CCPP protocol (device characteristics)

WSRP version 2 consists of the following documents. 
.	WSRP version 2 Specification (Dated: 28 January 2008). 
This document describes the web service interface that is exposed by all
instances of compliant Producers as well as the semantics required both of the
service and its Consumers 
.	WSRP version 2 WSDL. These documents details of each of the operations
and XML messages exchanged by compliant services. 
WSRP version 2 schema, Dated: 28 January 2008 
WSRP version 2 portTypes, Dated: 28 January 2008 
WSRP version 2 bindings, Dated: 28 January 2008
 
(e) A statement regarding the relationship of this specification to similar work
of other OASIS TCs or other standards developing organizations.
The specification notes a number of standards developed at OASIS and other
organizations that are leveraged by WSRP. 

(f) Statements of Use: 
The chair is pleased to report that four OASIS organizational members have
provided attestations with respect to successfully using WSRP v2, as required by
the OASIS TC Process. In addition, the chair is also pleased to report that
there are at least four known implementations of the WSRP v2 Committee
Specification, each of which emanates from vendor organizations. 
BEA - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrp/200801/msg00006.html   
IBM - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrp/200801/msg00013.html  
Oracle - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrp/200801/msg00012.html  
Vignette - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrp/200801/msg00014.html 
 
(g) Pub The beginning and ending dates of the public review(s), a pointer to the
announcement of the public review(s), and a pointer to an account of each of the
comments/issues raised during the public review period(s), along with its
resolution: 
60-day Public Review 24 July 2007 - 22 September 2007
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200707/msg00011.html

15-day Public Review 31 October 2007 - 15 November 2007
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200710/msg00012.html

Comments and their resolution were captured on a wiki page which, a snapshot of
which has been captured in
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27186/WSRP_v2_PR_Comments.zip.




(h) An account of and results of the voting to approve the specification as a
Committee Specification, including the date of the ballot and a pointer to the
ballot .
Committee Specification 
The specification was approved as a Committee Specification in a ballot
(http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=1411) which closed on 28
January 2008. This ballot had one non-vote and two abstains with the rest voting
for approval. The abstains both commented on having not received an IPR
statement from WebCollage (which had issued such a statement relative to WSRP
v1). The TC has attempted to acquire such a statement from WebCollage, but had
little leverage as WebCollage had not been involved in the effort to define WSRP
v2 and was non-responsive to the Technical Committee's requests. 

(i) An account of or pointer to votes and comments received in any earlier
attempts to standardize substantially the same specification, together with the
originating TC's response to each comment. 
There have been no past attempts to submit WSRP v2 for OASIS standardization. 

(j) A pointer to the publicly visible comments archive for the originating TC.
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrp-comment/ 

(k) A pointer to any minority reports.
There have been no minority reports received from Committee members nor
statements that the specification has underlying technical issues or
non-reviewed substantive changes. 


Rich Thompson
OASIS WSRP TC Chair
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center / Hawthorne, NY