Re: [wsrm] Candidate Frequently Asked Questions for the OASIS website

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

The first question that is asked by people looking at ws-reliability is --
what is the difference between this spec and ws-reliablemessaging?

Are we going to put that in the FAQ?

-Anish
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Tom Rutt wrote:
> The following FAQ's were provided by Alan Weissberger in his White paper.
> 
> We should discuss these on email and on the call. OASIS Staff want us to 
> give them
> a set of FAQs to put on the web site.
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> . Frequently Asked Questions
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> 1. Who is participating in the OASIS WSRM TC and how often do they meet?
> A variety of companies are active in the WSRM TC. The members include: 
> Booz Allen Hamilton, BT, Cyclone Commerce, Fujitsu (3), Hewlett-Packard, 
> Hitachi(3), NEC Corporation(2), Novell, Oracle (3), SAP, See Beyond, SUN 
> Micro (2), University of Hong Kong. There are also many observers. 
> Membership in OASIS is required to participate in the WSRM TC. Telecon 
> meetings are held weekly and face-to-face meetings are held about every 
> two or three months.
> 
> 2. When will the WS Reliability spec be completed and what is it based on?
> Agreement was reached in Nov 2003 on a committee draft spec (v0.52), 
> which was implemented in a demo at the Philadelphia XML Conference, in 
> February 2004. The TC has recently voted on a committee draft spec 
> (v.0.992) which is out for public review, to complete on April 19, 2004. 
> Note that the spec is based on Requirements issues that have been 
> compiled for the committee’s internal use (over 100 requirements have 
> been identified).
> 
> - An OASIS standard could be approved in the 2nd Quarter of 2004, after 
> the public review.
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> 3. Who participated in the demo of WS Reliability?
> Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, Oracle, and SUN Micro. The demo was based on 
> v0.52 of the spec.
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> 4. Who will benefit from the completed WS Reliability spec?
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> • WS middleware companies that implement the spec will benefit because 
> it will be universally interoperable. Initial testing can be done with 
> any company that implements it. The license to implement the spec is 
> royalty free.
> 
> • Application program developers will also benefit, as their web based 
> applications will be reliable and robust, operating over WS Reliability 
> middleware. Using the implemented middleware will also be royalty free.
> 
> • WS End users will benefit in accordance with their application 
> requirements. For example, “at most once delivery” implies duplicate 
> elimination. This is important for placing orders, banking transactions, 
> and insurance claims processing. If an end user is sending a Purchase 
> Order, for example, he wants to know it actually arrived at the 
> destination and it arrived exactly once (not multiple times). This is 
> particularly vital for financial applications.
> 
> 5. Who will generate application specific profiles for the WS 
> Reliability spec?
> 
> WS-I will most likely develop such profiles. The WS-I Requirements 
> Working Group has already discussed doing this upon completion of the spec.
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