Re: [sca-policy] Wording for Issue 106

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

Folks,

The actual proposed wording is unacceptable
because of the use of the RFC2119 word "may".

I suggest alternative wording as follows:

"The normatively
defined intents in the SCA specification might evolve in 
future versions of this specification. New intents could be added, additional

qualifiers could be added to existing intents and
the default
qualifier for existing intents could change.  Such changes would cause
the 
namespace for the SCA specification to change."


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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From:	ashok malhotra <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>
To:	OASIS Policy <sca-policy@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date:	21/10/2009 16:08
Subject:	[sca-policy] Wording for Issue 106

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This issue has to do with the evolution of intents
as the Policy 
Framework spec evolves.

Note that section 3.1 of the spec says
"SCA normatively defines a set of core intents that all SCA 
implementations are expected to support, to ensure a minimum level of 
portability. Users of SCA can define new intents, or extend the 
qualifier set of existing intents."

So the question remaining is, what about new intents or changes to 
intents on subsequent revisions of the
Policy Framework spec.  To clarify this, I suggest we add the following
words of a final, standalone, paragraph at the end
of section 3.1.

The normatively defined intents in the SCA specification may evolve in
future versions of this specification
New intents may be added, additional qualifiers may be added to existing
intents and the default
qualifier for existing intents may change.  Such changes would cause
the 
namespace for the
SCA specification to change.
-- 
All the best, Ashok

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