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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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