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Subject: Re: [ebxml-bp] [ebBP] 4/30/2004: Keeping the Momentum for v2.0 [RSD]
Monica, Thanks as ever for the excellent notes. Sorry I was not available for a much time as I'd have wished - given the clash with the OAGi meeting at NIST and a project meeting in NY. However - I feel urged to comment on this piece in your notes. ----- Original Message ----- > In addition, we will have the following either tailored TC or special > sessions over the next two weeks for: > > * Conditionality of attributes: What attributes should be changed to > elements to allow for conditionality. What are the parameters for > conditionality (offshoot from our discussion on late binding and TTP). > This is *exactly* the ugly side-effect that I strongly cautioned we should be avoiding. This will cause havoc and chaos across the whole structure. I understand member implementers need to have a "quick-fix" for their time-to-perform issue, but then having this influence the entire schema, and have to support this in-perpetua - is exactly what we do not need - especially with attendent interoperability issues. This can potentially hamstring BPSS in one stroke. The long term solution is a consistent context mechanism that works seamlessly with elements and attributes. We already have this designed and detailed. Obviously this requires a context aware software component - and I understand that managers never want anyone developing more code. However - since the code for this is already available as open source - there is no severe development barrier here. So in summary - context mechanism - good; re-wiring our entire schema structure - not good. Thanks, DW
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