Re: [ws-caf] Future of WS-Context

[Mark Little <mark.little@jboss.com>]

Thanks Ram.

Mark.


Ram Kumar wrote:
> Hi Mark,
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> WS-CF 1.0 committee draft is currently under a 60 day public review
> and the review officially ends on 18 April 2006.
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> Regards,
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> Ram
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Little" <mark.little@jboss.com>
> To: <ws-caf@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 8:27 PM
> Subject: [ws-caf] Future of WS-Context
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>> I'd like to continue the discussion around the future of WS-CAF and 
>> WS-Context. If memory serves, the last time we discussed WS-Context, 
>> Martin argued that rather than move to adopt as an OASIS Standard, we 
>> should first take the currently agreed specification and do some 
>> interoperability testing against it. This is because the last time we 
>> did interoperability (Q2 2005?) it was against a much changed version 
>> of the specification. I believe we all agreed that this was a good 
>> idea but we didn't get commitments for this effort from everyone, so 
>> things stalled.
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>> What I'd like to suggest is that we either agree to do some kind of 
>> interoperability workshop (could be purely remote) within the next 
>> two months (say a deadline of end of May 2006), or that we simply 
>> adopt the current specification as an OASIS standard.
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>> This then brings me on to the subject of WS-CAF. Firstly, whatever 
>> happened to WS-CF? I believe we fulfilled all of the OASIS rules for 
>> getting it to a public review. Was it put up for public review? If 
>> so, when does that period end?
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>> Secondly, I'd propose that as soon as WS-Context is adopted as an 
>> OASIS standard, we close the TC. Although there is some interest in 
>> doing "added value for WS-TX" in the scope of WS-CAF, I don't think 
>> there's enough of a critical mass to make it work. I'd personally 
>> love to do the work, but without companies such as Oracle, IBM and/or 
>> MSFT, I don't think it is worth it.
>>
>> Mark.
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