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Subject: RE: [ws-rx] [WS-RX] Issue i014
Chris, I'm sure that if IBM had joined the WS-RM TC *before* there was a published WS-RM specification, and asked that the specification be renamed to WS-RM that said group would have been overjoyed to do it. :-) Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher B Ferris [mailto:chrisfer@us.ibm.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 12:11 PM > To: Green, Alastair J. > Cc: ashok.malhotra@oracle.com; Marc Goodner; ws-rx@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: RE: [ws-rx] [WS-RX] Issue i014 > > Alastair writes: > > > Plus, the TC/spec name clash is, as Ashok, points out, confusing to the > > outer world. My contacts in the end-user world are already confused. > > How do you reconcile that with the fact that the WSRM TC produced a spec > called WS-Reliability? > > I, for one, prefer that the name of the spec not be changed as that will, > IMO, keep the confusion > to a minimum. Adding yet another spec name to the mix will only serve to > increase confusion, not decrease it > as Marc points out. > > Cheers, > > Christopher Ferris > STSM, Emerging e-business Industry Architecture > email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com > blog: http://webpages.charter.net/chrisfer/blog.html > phone: +1 508 377 9295 > > "Green, Alastair J." <Alastair.Green@choreology.com> wrote on 07/28/2005 > 02:00:17 PM: > > > I agree with Oracle. The name WS-RX becomes associated with the open > > process spec, as an output. This differentiates it from the proprietary > > process input spec, and also is symbolic of the fusion of input from the > > WS-Reliability group. > > > > A + B = C <> A, even if A > B. > > > > Plus, the TC/spec name clash is, as Ashok, points out, confusing to the > > outer world. My contacts in the end-user world are already confused. > > > > Alastair > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Marc Goodner [mailto:mgoodner@microsoft.com] > > Sent: 28 July 2005 18:48 > > To: ashok.malhotra@oracle.com; ws-rx@lists.oasis-open.org > > Subject: RE: [ws-rx] [WS-RX] Issue i014 > > > > I disagree. Adding yet another document name does nothing to stop any > > confusion regarding names, it only increases it. The document names as > > contributed are already well established, changing them only introduces > > a new challenge for this TC that we don't need of promoting the new > > name. Keeping the document names the same as the contributions keeps the > > status quo that has been in this area for some. Asking people to learn a > > new name for these specs to reduce confusion is counter intuitive. > > > > -----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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