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Subject: Re: [business-transaction] Issue 89
I'm getting distant from the details of this one, but my view on procedure, with the necessary declaration of my bias, is a) delay of the spec for this item would not be justified b) that the proposed insertion, which Bill Pope summarized well a couple of days ago, does not undermine or alter the central thrust or details of any other part of the specification, and continues in my view to be a useful placeholder, optional and at worst harmless (and at best very useful). c) that the proposed insertion is not inherently complex or novel in content d) that votes exist to decide differences, and that a split vote on this issue is not going to create civil war, nor I assume, lead anyone to vote against the whole spec (whether the insertion is in or out). ... so, why don't we vote on counterposed (mutually exclusive) proposals, one of which is defer to the future, as we have done with other issues, and the other is to adopt whatever the latest text is that the pro's are in favour of -- and be done with it? I would have thought that this could either be done via telecon + e-mail, or at the F2F, and then we can all move on to making BTP known and, I hope, widely adopted in the industry. If we finalized this issue at the F2F then we do have more time to discuss it -- I presume that the next three weeks allows quite a lot of further discussion, does it not? Yours, Alastair William Z Pope wrote: > Apologies to the participants but it is worth making visible to > a wider audience this point from email on the bt-spec list. > Paraphrasing from the ongoing conversation on Issue 89 ... > > We (the TC) need to spend more time discussing this before > voting on it. > > Which re-raises the issue that there is no guarantee we will > have made enough progress on this before the (self-imposed) > 1.0 deadline. In that case how do we proceed? Vote on what > may be insufficient knowledge, delay the spec, or postpone > the vote? > > I'm posing the question at this point so people can think about > it. We are not, quite, at the point where that decision must > be made but it's coming soon. > > William Z Pope > zpope@pobox.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>
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