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Subject: RE: [wsbpel] RE: Requirements and Scope Documents?


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Assaf Arkin [mailto:arkin@intalio.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:56 AM
> To: John Evdemon
> Cc: David RR Webber - XML ebusiness; Diane Jordan; saskary@nuperus.com;
> wsbpel@lists.oasis-open.org; James Bryce Clark; Yaron Y. Goland
> Subject: Re: [wsbpel] RE: Requirements and Scope Documents?
> 
> 
> John Evdemon wrote:
> 
> >We're working with an established spec.  I'm (once again) not sure why
> >we need to write a requirements document for an established spec.
> >  
> >
> We do have an established spec and it is a waste of time to 
> reverse-engineer the requirements that led to this spec just for the 
> purpose of having them written down.
> 
> But, the TC consists of around a hundred members who have joined in 
> order to contribute to the development of the spec. We can't expect 
> people to participate and contribute if they do not all have an 
> understanding of what the spec is about. The recent discussion about 
> execution vs modeling vs authoring stems from that simple fact.
> 
> Should I spend my employeer's time contributing ideas to improve the 
> usefulness of the spec to address XML authoring if that was never a 
> requirement? Should Edwin contribute an example for using coordination 
> protocols if that is not a requirement? And so forth.
> 
> The authors made a conscious decision to target the spec to solve a 
> particular set of requirements. And given that we are working on an 
> established spec, I believe that for the most part we have well defined 
> requirements. Some of them are implicit and well understood. Other are 
> not. If the TC is to make any forward progress it need to consider 
> clearly specifying some of these requirements so they are understood to 
> the larger group.
> 
> arkin
> 
> 
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