Exit Criteria for the SCA Specifications.

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

Folks,

My view of this proposal is that it
makes optional normative parts of any specifications pretty well untenable.
Perhaps this is the intention.

If this was what was intended from the
start, then I am sure that the approach to optional sections of any of
the
SCA specifications in any of the TCs
would have been very different.

The implication is that there would
be an arbitrarily high bar set to achieve the exit criteria for the SCA
specifications.
I see no point to this - it is a recipe
for never reaching standardization.

I see two alternative paths:

o Not accept this approach to the Exit
Criteria

o Start now removing all the optional
normative parts of the SCA specifications (either remove them entirely
or make
them non-normative - which of these
to adopt will vary depending on the specification).


I remind everyone that the impact of
this decision will be greater in some of the other TCs - some specifications
such
as  the Web Services one - have
significant optional sections.  It will also have an impact on the
development of the
1.2 version of the Assembly specification.


Yours, Mike

Dr Mike Edwards		Mail Point 137, Hursley Park
STSM		Winchester, Hants SO21 2JN
SCA & Services Standards		United Kingdom
Co-Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC
IBM Software Group
Phone:	+44-1962 818014
Mobile:	+44-7802-467431 (274097)
e-mail:	mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com

From:	Anish Karmarkar <Anish.Karmarkar@oracle.com>
To:	Danny van der Rijn <dannyv@tibco.com>
Cc:	OASIS Assembly <sca-assembly@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date:	08/03/2011 17:24
Subject:	[sca-assembly] Amendment to the amendment of today's motion

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Danny,

Here is the text from the chat:

"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'. The TC shall use the results (expected 
output) of the relevant tests, submitted by the implementer (in any 
form), to verify that the runtime passes the tests."


This + changes to talk about pair-wise (instead of all) implementation
of normative parts would change Mike's proposal 1 to:

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

o there shall be at least 2 independent SCA runtimes that are compliant
with each normative portion 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'. The TC shall use the results (expected 
output) of the relevant tests, submitted by the implementer (in any 
form), to verify that the runtime passes the tests.

-Anish
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