NEW ISSUE: Default qualifier for SOAP intent should not be 1_1

[Simon Nash <oasis@cjnash.com>]

TARGET: Web Services Binding Specification

DESCRIPTION: Default qualifier for SOAP intent should not be 1_1

The Policy spec defines the SOAP intent as having a default qualifier
of 1_1.  This is incompatible with the semantics for the SOAP intent
and the SOAP.1_1 intent as defined by the Web Services binding spec.
These semantics are defined in section 4.1 as follows:

So as to narrow the range of choices for how messages are carried,
the following policy intents affect the transport binding:
  • SOAP
    When the SOAP intent is required, the SCA runtime MUST transmit
    and receive messages using SOAP. One or more SOAP versions can
    be used [BWS40001].
  • SOAP.1_1
    When the SOAP.1_1 intent is required, the SCA runtime MUST transmit
    and receive messages using only SOAP 1.1 [BWS40002].
  • SOAP.1_2
    When the SOAP.1_2 intent is required, the SCA runtime MUST transmit
    and receive messages using only SOAP 1.2 [BWS40003].

The SOAP intent allows SOAP 1.2 to be used, but the SOAP.1_1 intent
does not allow SOAP 1.2 to be used.  This shows that specifying the
SOAP intent is not equivalent to specifying the SOAP.1_1 intent.

PROPOSAL:

Add a new qualifer ANY to the SOAP intent and define this as the
default qualifier.