My vote on the current RX specs ballot

[Marc Goodner <mgoodner@microsoft.com>]

I filed this as a comment with my ballot. Based on some private messages I have received I think it is worth posting this to the list. It seems that my reading of the change to the RM Policy spec may be more literal than the TC’s intent. I’m posting this here with the intent of seeing if people disagree or not with my reasoning with respect to whether or not the RM Policy assertion can be used with the Policy 1.2 namespace even though our reference is now solely to Policy 1.5. I am especially interested in how any interpretations contrary to my own are supported by what is written in the specification.

 

Regards,

Marc g

 

The late change from referencing WS-Policy 1.2 to WS-Policy 1.5 in RM Policy required that I abstain from the current ballot for the RX TC specs.

 

This change was not technically necessary as the RM Policy assertion does not use any features of WS-Policy 1.5 alone and the assertion is backwards compatible with WS-Policy 1.2. The change does however mean that Microsoft cannot use the revised RM Policy assertion and be compliant to this specification until we also support the final version of WS-Policy 1.5.

 

I believe that the delay caused by waiting for WS-Policy 1.5 to be completed is going to hurt the market adoption of WS-RM and WS-RM Policy.

 

It is regretful that the TC made this change at the last minute thinking of the references alone rather than considering the change's impact on market adoption of the specifications.