[bt-spec] Call for email vote: BT TC issue 1

[William Z Pope <zpope@pobox.com>]

This is a call for an email vote on the proposed resolution included
below for BT TC issue # 1

The voting period is one week, seven days, commencing Dec 3, 2001
and closing at your local midnight on December 10, 2001.

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Issue URL
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http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/business-transactions/issues.html#Issue
1

Issue
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Bindings need to state explicitly the format of the "binding address"
component of their addresses - this should be a requirement in the
binding proforma. For the SOAP/HTTP bindings, the format is a URL.

Proposed Resolution
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in Carrier Protocol Binding proforma, add paragraph

  Binding address format: This section status the format of the
  "binding address" field of a BTP address for this binding. For
  many bindings, this will be a URL of some kind; for other bindings
  it may be some other form.

in SOAP Binding, add paragraph

  Binding address format: shall be a URL, of type HTTP.

In SOAP + Attachments binding, add paragraph

  Binding address format: as for soap-http-1

In XML representation of Message Set, Addresses, in the informal XML ,
element btp:binding address, change "carrier specific URI" to "carrier
specific address", and similarly in schema.



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Regards,
=bill

William Z Pope
zpope@pobox.com