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Subject: RE: [ws-rx] [WS-RX] Issue i014
My conjecture is that the specification produced by the WS-RX WG will have significant differences from the earlier WS-RM specifiaction. A new name will prevent confusion. All the best, Ashok > -----Original Message----- > From: Jorgen Thelin [mailto:jthelin@microsoft.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:26 AM > To: ashok.malhotra@oracle.com; ws-rx@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: RE: [ws-rx] [WS-RX] Issue i014 > > At least 7 companies are already shipping products > implementing the submitted WS-ReliableMessaging specs, so the > current name for this spec is already well established in > customers minds and the market place at large. > > According to MSN Search, there are already 10x more > occurrences of the term WS-RM than for WS-RX. Google produces > similar results (modulo confusion with various similarly > named radio stations around the world). > These figures illustrate how established the current name > already is in the industry, and how much of an uphill push it > would be to switch to a new name. > > Regarding "possible confusion with [the name of] other > documents in the same space", the name "Reliable Messaging" > is already just as different from "Reliability" as "Reliable > Exchange" is. This is like saying "oranges are better than > apples when compared to bananas"! Why make a gratuitous > change to something that clearly isn't broken? > > As a comparison, are there any of the specs being produced by > the WS-CAF TC that will be named "WS-CAF". Will Oracle be > making a similar proposal there too? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ashok Malhotra [mailto:ashok.malhotra@oracle.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 8:51 AM > To: ws-rx@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: [ws-rx] [WS-RX] Issue i014 > > The Oracle folks would like to express our preference on issue i014. > > We would like the documents to be named WS-RX (Web Services > Reliable Exchange). > This aligns the names of the documents with the name of the > WG. It also removes possible confusion with other documents > in the same space. > > All the best, Ashok > > > >
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