Re: [sca-bindings] Re: Groups - Ballot closed: "Approve SCA Web Service

Subject: Re: [sca-bindings] Re: Groups - Ballot closed: "Approve SCA Web Service Binding Specification v1.1 as a Committee Specification"

All,

I am surprised at the 'No' vote on the Web Service Binding Committee Specification ballot as no objections were raised when we discussed the ballot during the last TC call. Doing so would have allowed members to address concerns directly.

Unfortunately, the reasons provided for the 'No' votes cast by Oracle are extremely subjective and offer no constructive way forward. Explaining Oracle's position, Anish said the 'No' votes were a corporate decision predicated on the opinion that "uptake of SCA by the industry has fallen well short of expectations" and not due to technical concerns. A single organization has blocked the advancement of a committee draft specification because in their view it is no longer relevant to the "industry".

Based on the ballot outcome, it appears the other TC voting members - who represent a wide industry cross-section - disagree with that assessment. I would like to present the following facts which highlight how SCA is still a relevant technology:

1. There are no other standards which address what SCA does, composite services in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

2. Major vendors holding significant market share have invested in SCA-based products and runtimes including IBM, TIBCO, RedHat and Siemens.

3. There are at least five *active* independent open source SCA implementations. There are not many other middleware standards with five open source implementations, including Java EE:

a. Apache Tuscany

b. Fabric3

c. Trentino

d. FraSCAti

e. SwitchYard

4. The SCA standards are supported and used by a wide variety of industry participants including vendors, corporations, open source organizations, and individuals.

Relegating SCA - which has received positive technical reviews in the industry - to permanent CSD status would be a disservice to the early adopters of SCA who looked to OASIS for standards leadership. Furthermore, leaving the SCA specifications in non-Final form will create significant legal issues for existing SCA implementations. The OASIS IPR policy (https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr) implies that if the SCA specifications are not made Final, a TC Party does not have a Contribution Obligation. This leaves those responsible for SCA implementations open to patent claims from other TC Parties.

Impeding the specifications based solely on the belief that they are not relevant to the industry rather than on technical grounds strikes me as arbitrary and insufficient.

Jim

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Simon Holdsworth <simon_holdsworth@uk.ibm.com> wrote:

Folks,

As attached, the Committee Specification ballot has closed. The results were 7 in favour, 3 against. Due to the super majority rules, the ballot has failed given more than 25% voted against it.

I'd like to invite the voters against to respond with any reasons for their choice, to help the TC understand how we could proceed with the move to Committee Specification status that the majority of the voting members desire, given that no issues have been raised with the specification document itself.

Thanks, Simon

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To: Simon Holdsworth/UK/IBM@IBMGB,
Date: 01/06/2013 01:07
Subject: [sca-bindings] Groups - Ballot closed: "Approve SCA Web Service Binding Specification v1.1 as a Committee Specification"
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"Approve SCA Web Service Binding Specification v1.1 as a Committee Specification" has closed.

Ballot Title: Approve SCA Web Service Binding Specification v1.1 as a Committee Specification

Question
Do members of the SCA Bindings TC approve SCA Web Service Binding Specification V1.1 [1] with Non-Material Changes [2] and Designated Cross-Reference Changes [3] as a Committee Specification?

Description
This ballot requires a Special Majority Vote [4]. The TC roster currently lists 10 voting members. In order to pass, at least 7 members have to vote Yes and no more than 2 members may vote No.

[1] URI for the specification

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/49161/sca-wsbinding-1.1-spec-csprd03-rev1.doc

[2] The Working Draft for this Committee Specification contains changes made since its last public review. The changes made are documented in http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/49163/sca-wsbinding-1.1-spec-csprd03-rev1-diff.doc. The TC judges these changes to be Non-Material Changes in accordance with the definition in the OASIS TC Process (http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process#dNonmaterialChange).

[3] This Specification Approval Motion includes the following Designated Cross-Reference Changes requested in accordance with the requirements of Section 2.19 of the TC Process (http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process#crossRefs):

- Current reference to be updated: line 31: [SCA-Assembly] OASIS Committee Specification Draft 07, Service Component Architecture Assembly Model Specification Version 1.1, January 2011 http://docs.oasis-open.org/opencsa/sca-assembly/sca-assembly-1.1-spec-csd07.pdf

Expected approval status and date: Committee Specification, May 2013

- Current reference to be updated: line 35: [SCA-Policy] OASIS Committee Draft 04, SCA Policy Framework Specification Version 1.1, September 2010 http://docs.oasis-open.org/opencsa/sca-policy/sca-policy-1.1-spec-cd04.pdf

Expected approval status and date: Committee Specification, May 2013

- Current reference to be updated: line 38: [SCA-JCAA] OASIS Committee Specification Draft 05, Service Component Architecture SCA-J Common Annotations and APIs Specification Version 1.1, November 2010 http://docs.oasis-open.org/opencsa/sca-j/sca-javacaa-1.1-spec-csd05.pdf

Expected approval status and date: Committee Specification, May 2013

- Current reference to be updated: line 91: [WS-Testcases] OASIS Committee Draft 01, "TestCases for the SCA Web Service Binding Specification Version 1.1", July 2010, http://docs.oasis-open.org/opencsa/sca-bindings/sca-wsbinding-1.1-testcases-cd01.pdf

Expected approval status and date: Replace with Latest version link.

The TC acknowledges that approval and publication of the specification may be delayed by the Designated Cross-Reference Changes."

[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process-2010-07-28.php#dSpecialMajority

Voting Results
10 of 10 eligible voters cast their vote before the deadline. - Yes received 7 Votes - No received 3 Votes - Abstain received 0 Votes The ballot received 0 comments.

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Group: OASIS Service Component Architecture / Bindings (SCA-Bindings) TC
Date Opened: Friday, 24 May 2013 @ 12:00 am UTC
Date Closed: Friday, 31 May 2013 @ 11:59 pm UTC

Referenced Items

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