RE: [ebxml-msg] Question about OPTIONAL

[Martin W Sachs <mwsachs@us.ibm.com>]

Yes, this is the real world and businesses that don't follow the spec are
creating a serious interoperability exposure for themselves.  Nonetheless,
if a message violates the intent of the creaters of the CPA (or equivalent)
one or the other has made a serious error and processing of the message
should not continue.

Regards,
Marty

*************************************************************************************

Martin W. Sachs
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
P. O. B. 704
Yorktown Hts, NY 10598
914-784-7287;  IBM tie line 863-7287
Notes address:  Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM
Internet address:  mwsachs @ us.ibm.com
*************************************************************************************



David Fischer <david@drummondgroup.com> on 11/08/2001 10:19:07 PM

To:    Dan Weinreb <dlw@exceloncorp.com>, arvola@tibco.com
cc:    Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM@IBMUS, ebxml-msg@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject:    RE: [ebxml-msg] Question about OPTIONAL



I find myself outnumbered so I will acquiesce -- with one final comment.

Businesses in the real world don't like strict rules.  I think this will
fail,
or more likely implementors will not follow the spec.

  - David

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Weinreb [mailto:dlw@exceloncorp.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 9:07 PM
To: arvola@tibco.com
Cc: mwsachs@us.ibm.com; david@drummondgroup.com;
ebxml-msg@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [ebxml-msg] Question about OPTIONAL


   Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 11:07:47 -0800
   From: Arvola Chan <arvola@tibco.com>

   I vote for option 1: Stop processing and send back an Error --
   NotSupported/Error.

I agree, and with the rest of what you said.

----------------------------------------------------------------
To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription
manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>