Concrete Exit Criteria for the SCA Assembly TC - Proposal

[Mike Edwards <mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com>]

Folks, 

I'd like to focus us back on the proposal for the Exit
Criteria for the Assembly TC.
Let's separate this from any discussion of Conformance
and whether any changes are
needed in the Conformance section of the Assembly spec.


I propose the following as the Exit
Criteria to be adopted by the SCA Assembly TC: 

"The Concrete Exit Criteria for
the SCA Assembly V1.1 specification are that: 

o there shall be 2 independent SCA runtimes
that are compliant with all normative portions of the

specification as described in Section
12.2 of the SCA Assembly V1.1 specification  

o the 2 independent runtimes shall pass
the Test Suite for SCA Assembly as described in the document

'TestCases for the SCA Assembly Model
Version 1.1 Specification' " 



There is some debate over the first point and some more
debate over the second point:

- for the first point, the question of how to handle optional
portions of the specification is under debate

- for the second point, the question of whether it is
necessary to have this point at all is under debate 



I observe that strictly, all that is
really required is the first point.  
The second point is simply one way of
getting assurance that the first point has been achieved.

We could relax the second point, at
the cost of less simple language, something like this:

o the 2 independent runtimes must provide
a demonstration of their conformance to the SCA Assembly specification
and it is recommended but not required
that this is done by the runtime passing the Test Suite for SCA Assembly
as described in the
document 'TestCases for the SCA Assembly
Model Version 1.1 Specification'


However, I believe that ultimately the
TC will simply make a decision based on whatever SCA runtimes are presented

claiming conformance - and the TC can
make a judgement (vote) based on any materials it thinks fit.

 
Yours, Mike

Dr Mike Edwards		Mail Point 146, Hursley Park
STSM		Winchester, Hants SO21 2JN
SCA & Services Standards		United Kingdom
Co-Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC
IBM Software Group
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e-mail:	mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com

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