Re: [was] Today's meeting

[Peter Michalek <peter@michalek.org>]

Yes, WAS is ambitious and has a difficult task: but it's taking the
right approach: gather support from people involved with security
efforts and security XML schemas, larger overall participation and not
re-invent the wheel.

Rogan, I agree that putting scripting support into XML as XML constructs
doesn't work, except for simple cases: but it doesn't prevent us from
developing a comprehensive schema (with scripts referenced, rather than
implemented in XML).

Perhaps we should always hold the conference call unless a notification
is sent that it's postponed
Peter

>Quoting Kevin Heineman <kheineman@spidynamics.com>:
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>>I dialed in to the meeting today but apparently it was cancelled.  I
>>missed the last couple of meetings so I was looking for an update.  The
>>website is not updated so I was wondering if someone could reply to the
>>group list and give a status of activities from the TC.  Thanks.
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>>Regards,
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>>Kevin Heineman
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>Hi Kevin,
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>It looks like the level of interest in WAS-XML has dropped significantly (to
>zero, practically)
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>I personally have very little time to spend on it nowadays, and frankly, I'm not
>even convinced that XML is the right tool to describe complex interactions,
>possibly involving multiple threads and multiple requests. It seems that all we
>would be doing is creating a new specialised programming language, with none of
>the flexibility of a 1st class language, and all the downsides and complexity
>of an XML document.
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>Maybe we were being too ambitious . . .
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>Rogan
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