[NEW ISSUE] <Operation/> child element of <Implementation/> incorrect andshould be removed

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

RAISER: Mike Edwards

TARGET: Policy Framework Specification

DESCRIPTION: 

Section 5.2 of the Policy Framework
specification, lines 1253 - 1289, describes the application of intents
and 
PolicySets to individual operations
of services of implementations.

This is formally described by the pseudo-schema
in lines 1260 - 1270.

The existence of <operation.../>
elements in the schema and the functionality of describing policies &
intents
for service operations as part of an
implementation is misplaced and wrong.  It should be removed.

There are 2 places that an <implementation
/> element can occur:

1. As a child element of a <component/>
2. As a child element of a <componentType/>

In both of these locations, it is possible
to define aspects of a service or of a reference of the implementation
as peer elements of the implementation
element.  Both <service/> and <reference/> elements contain
zero or more <operation/> elements
as children, which can be used to describe aspects of individual 
operations of the relevant service or
reference.

It is completely unnecessary to have
another parallel method of specifying the information relating to a 
particular service operation or reference
operation.  It adds nothing other than confusion and complexity.

This additional method of specifying
aspects of operations should be removed to simplify the model.

<As an aside, the Assembly specification
DOES NOT HAVE the operation child elements for an
implementation - the proposal below
requires NO changes in the Assembly specification>

PROPOSAL:

Remove section 5.2 in its entirety.


Yours,  Mike.

Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO.
Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC.
IBM Hursley Park, Mail Point 146, Winchester, SO21 2JN, Great Britain.
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Email:  mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com

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