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Subject: RE: [wsbpel] RE: Requirements and Scope Documents?
+1 > -----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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: wsbpel-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: wsbpel-help@lists.oasis-open.org > >
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