Target for submission of WSRP to OASIS

[Rich Thompson <richt2@us.ibm.com>]

Late discussion on today's TC call related
to when WSRP should be submitted to OASIS. Issues raised:

 - JSR 168 public review plans
were delayed from our discussion in May.
 - JSR 168 is just now going into
public review (expected public visibility on 7/11 [Sun is closed next week])
 - There has been a strong intent
of producing aligned WSRP and JSR 168 standards in order to keep the programming
models straight forward
 - Risk raised is that submitting
now would leave reviewing how the alignment changes during the JSR 168
public review with the OASIS Board. Any comments they produce would likely
start a new 3-month cycle.
 - Discussion in May set a target
of submitting in July as:
     - Several vendor
products are interoperating. The number involved continues to grow (currently
at 5).
     - Errata emanating
from these tests has tended toward clarification rather than changing things
that are broken.
     - Any real issues
are more likely to occur once the spec is released and supported by a number
of vendors and will have to be fixed in v1.1 or v2.

Question raised:
Why not delay 1 month to provide greater
opportunity to test interoperability and vet any impacts of issues discovered
during the JSR 168 public review?

Please use this email thread to vet
opinions on this subject. In addition, I will schedule an 8 PT, 11ET, 5CET
teleconference for tomorrow (6/27) for those wishing to discuss it verbally.
I will also establish a vote in the Kavi system for this question with
a closing date of next Tuesday (7/1).

Rich Thompson