Sounds like the European wing will be late
or missing. With two down, we need a strong attendance to get
sufficient consensus on some important issues. Ideally, we can
position ourselves off to complete some of this work.
1) Schemas.
If you haven’t been watching, Mike has completely re-cast the
schemas, bridging CalConnect and OASIS. All the strings now
have patterns, conformance is more likely, the rules look
pretty good. The editors would like some direction that this
is good enough, close enough, to start building the final
documents around.
2) Document
structure. I propose that we split the TC’s work into
“WS-Calendar Part One: Information Model and Conformance” and
“WS-Calendar Part Two: Communications and Interactions”.
Titles subject to change.
3) Assuming
consensus, or event votes, on one and two, I suggest that we
prepare to have Part one ready for PR03 by Tuesday of next
week.
a. Mike
to have all Schema issues closed by then. Additional Committee
guidance provided today.
b. Toby
to have New document format by then
Thinking:
1) SGIP is
waiting on (1) more than (2). Mike has (correctly) spent all
his energy/time on (1). This allow us to present Part 1 to the
SGIP, and stabilize it fully for use in EMIX, EI, SPC201, et
al.
2) Part two
needs more work. REST needs conformance. The SOAP exists in
open source already, but has not been seen by the TC. It would
benefit from more input from the existing Calendar/SOAP
players. Multi-record interactions need to be addressed in
both. This gives us more time for that.
3) Much of
the confusion around WS-Calendar involves having both in the
same document. Must I use SOAP if I use WS-Calendar? Is REST
required for my high-speed highly secure trading platform? Do
the message security functions, e.g., “owner”, somehow imply
regulated changes of custodianship? Formally separating them
removes this source of confusion.
I have gotten no feedback from the OASIS
Process on the issues, is it really PR03, etc., but the
results seem reasonable.
Come to the meeting ready to discuss. If
there are objections, come ready to present them with
specifics.
Thanks
tc
“The single biggest problem in
communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
– George Bernard Shaw.