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

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

Perhaps ebMS 2.0 as well...

Joe

Anish Karmarkar wrote:
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> 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.
> >
> > --------------------
> > . Frequently Asked Questions
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 4. Who will benefit from the completed WS Reliability spec?
> >
> > • 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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