Re: [wsn] WS-Addressing submitted to W3C as input

[Anish Karmarkar <Anish.Karmarkar@oracle.com>]

Steve Graham wrote:

> 
> Folks:
> Please see: http://www.w3.org/Submission/2004/05/.
> This is a submission request to the W3C by BEA, IBM, Microsoft, SAP and 
> Sun to submit WS-Addressing to W3C as input to the standardization process.
> 
> I would like to recommend that we consider using WS-Addressing as 
> submitted to the W3C in our work in WS-RF and WS-N.  Note, our use of 
> WSDL 1.1 (which was a submission to W3C, just like WS-Addressing is now) 
> is a precedence for this sort of pre-requisite.
> 
> I formally move that we use WS-Addressing as our only means of reference 
> mechanism. In particular, I propose that we avoid abstracting the 
> reference mechanism, such as BPEL has done, in light of this submission 
> of WS-Addressing to W3C.  Note, this minimizes the perturbation to the 
> currently specified message exchanges, and reduces migration impediments 
> for implementations that are building to the 1.1 and 1.2 versions of our 
> specifications.
> 

I think this is a very good first step.
But I don't see how this changes things for us in the short term. There 
are now two submissions made to W3C [1] [2] that "address" the same 
problem domain. There is also an effort to get a charter [3][4][5][6][7] 
(pl. note that references [5], [6] and [7] are accessible to W3C member 
only) for a W3C Working Group. Given that there are two submissions and 
that there *may* be a W3C WG, it would in fact make more sense to 
abstract the reference mechanism. This will also future proof our specs 
to what ever comes out of a W3C WG (if it happens).

-Anish
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[1] http://www.w3.org/Submission/2004/02/
[2] http://www.w3.org/Submission/2004/05/
[3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws/2004Jun/0000.html
[4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws/2004Aug/0003.html
[5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-ws/2004May/0001.html
[6] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-ws/2004May/0002.html
[7] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-ws/2004May/0003.html