Re: [ws-caf-editors] Re: Latest revisions

["Mark Little" <mark.little@arjuna.com>]

Comments inline.

Mark.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Pavlik" <greg.pavlik@oracle.com>
To: "Greg Pavlik" <greg.pavlik@oracle.com>
Cc: "ws-caf-editors" <ws-caf-editors@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 9:00 PM
Subject: [ws-caf-editors] Re: Latest revisions


> Attached.
>
> Greg Pavlik wrote:
>
> > Gentlemen,
> >
> > I have gone through to resolve my open issues and also to attempt to
> > tidy up the spec by flagging redundancy and content we agreed to
> > remove at the F2F (for example, the rationalizations for nesting
> > belong in an FAQ or the Primer).
> >
> > Please read this revision and check to make sure you agree with the
> > changes I have made. I have modified the context structure and added
> > text on both addressing/service references and on getting the value of
> > a context that is passed by reference. Make sure that you agree with
> > what is in there.
> >
> > However, I have some action items for you all:
> >
> > 1) Eric, Mark: please make you agree with the defintion(s) of
> > activities. Make sure that all explanations of activities are
> > consistent with reference to the execution environment and contexts.
> > 2) Eric, Mark: Please look for redundancy: it's annoying and it makes
> > the spec ultimately harder to read and maintain. I tried to eliminate
> > things that I thought were repetitive and unhelpful, let's talk before
> > we undo the deletes.
> > 3) Simeon: I have made several changes to the schemas and XML
> > instances -- the changes aren't hard to find -- they need a) to be
> > backported to the real schema/wsdl that you maintain and b) validated.
> > Note that the SOAP example is currently incorrect, as the proper
> > namespaces are not imported. Also, let's revist whether we actually
> > need the "generic" service-ref element. I'm starting to think not.
> > 4) Speaking of namespaces, we no longer have a section that says what
> > namespace prefixes refer to. Is this an oversight? Let's give this one
> > to Mark.
> > 5) Mark, can you just remove the getContents method from ContextService?
> > 6) What exactly is returned when a URL in a pass-by-reference context
> > is dereferenced? An XML document that contains the context structure
> > as understood by the issuing authority? We should spell this out; if I
> > recall, the ContextManager responds with a requested-context message.
> > 7) Does anyone have an action to map the request-reply messages into a
> > (normative) table as per Peter's F2F request? This is actually
> > important as it allows us to avoid by normative rules requirements in
> > the callback pattern when using WS-MD.
> >
> > By what date are we shooting for a new draft spec?
> >
>

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