Re: [regrep] Proposed changes to ebMS Binding and HTTP Binding

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

I fully support it.  It makes sense. 

Duane

Farrukh Najmi wrote:

>
> Here is a breath of fresh air. I am for once proposing reducing scope 
> instead of increasing it for 3.0 specs :-)
>
> 1. Based on implementation experience I think we should drop the ebMS 
> binding from the RS spec for the following reasons:
>
> -It is out of date and underspecified. In its current form of 
> specificity and accuracy it is unimplementable.
>
> -It would take major work to align it with ebMS 3.0 and define 
> template CPAs for registry and client
>
> 2. Based on implementation experience I think we should drop bindings 
> for all registry protocol methods that require HTTP POST from ebRS for 
> the following reasons:
>
> -Sending protocol messages over HTTP POST without SOAP is pointless 
> since we need to duplicate functionality of the SOAP Header. This is 
> very non-standard in other similar specifications.
>
> -SOAP Binding is already supporting any such protocol messages over 
> HTTP POST
>
> -It is not good to have two similar but different ways of implementing 
> the same protocol
>
> Note that one side effect of (2) is that we can now remove the 
> SignatureList element from RegistryRequestType and 
> RegistryResponseType since they were there to carry signatures when 
> there was no SOAP envelope (totally non-standard practice).
>
> I have discussed this with Matt who is an expert on both issues and he 
> supported my proposal.
>
> Does any one have any objections to above proposals (1) and (2)?
>

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