RE: [ws-caf] Mt Everest and WS-CF

["Jim Webber" <Jim.Webber@newcastle.ac.uk>]

Hey Greg,


> Jim, the issue with type derivation for contexts was linked 
> to the problem of supporting multiple protocols (ALS's) in a 
> single activity. 

OK - sorry I haven't been following as closely as I would if this was my
full time job :-)

> Since the ALS functionality has been folded into the 
> ContextService, there is no longer a problem and the 
> WS-Context spec does not
> (currently) place normative requirements on dependent specs 
> in this respect. Should it?

I wouldn't have thought so.

> I should mention that type derivation is not dependent on 
> substitution groups per se.

No - I'm sorry if I implied that. The substitutionGroup stuff was there
so you could (sort of) go up and down the hierarchy.

Jim