Re: [wsbpel] Re: Issue 34 - Proposal for vote

[Ron Ten-Hove <Ronald.Ten-Hove@Sun.COM>]

Paco,

    I appreciate your response, but I respectfully have to say that I 
still don't understand the value of delay. To address your points:

    Let us suppose that we do delay, and that in two or three months a 
W3C working group is created to develop WS-MD/WS-A into public 
specifications. Could we, the WS-BPEL TC, then take a dependency on this 
anticipated new specification? The answer is clearly no, as the WSDL 2.0 
precedent you cited shows. Therefore waiting for such a working group to 
form is rather pointless. Or had you in mind something different from a 
dependency on such a specification?

    Our TC has a large number of outstanding issues to be resolved, many 
of which "interact" with each other. The sooner we resolve some issues, 
the easier it will be to resolve the remaining ones. We do have a 
limited amount of time available [1], and deliberate delays will 
ultimately delay the completion of our work. (This TC formed over a year 
ago; my eldest child has grown over ten centimetres in that time span! :-)

-Ron

[1] Our charter states that "The final draft of the resultant 
specification will be due within 9 months of the first meeting", so we 
are already late.

Francisco Curbera wrote:

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>Ron,
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>I was pointing out that things seem to be moving, after the recent w3c
>submission. Waiting for standards is clearly not a requirements, as our
>position wrt WSDL 2.0 shows. on the other hand, if a submitted document
>were to become the seed of a working group we would have a clear reference
>point to build upon. Since a delay of this decision comes at essentially no
>price, it seems unnecessary to rush to close it.
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>Paco
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