RE: [ws-rx] Synchronizing references across the WS-RX/SX/TXspecifications

["Bob Freund-Hitachi" <bob.freund@hitachisoftware.com>]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Mischkinsky [mailto:jeff.mischkinsky@oracle.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 11:37 AM
> To: wsrx
> Subject: [ws-rx] Synchronizing references across the WS-RX/SX/TX
> specifications
> 
> To the Members of the WS-RX, WS-SX, and WS-TX Technical Committees,
> 
> Recently many of the WS-* specifications in the OASIS WS-RX, WS-SX
> and WS-TX Technical Committees have reached, or are close to
> reaching, the significant milestone of becoming OASIS standards. As
> these specifications are being completed at different times and in
> different committees some of their normative references are not
> synchronized. Some of these specifications reference the W3C
> submission of WS-Policy 1.2. Some of these specifications reference
> both the WS-Policy 1.2 submission and WS-Policy 1.5 which is still in
> progress at the W3C. Some of these specifications reference final
> OASIS specifications and others reference the contributed drafts.
> 
> We believe that it would be beneficial to the community to have the
> same references in a synchronized set of the RX, SX, and TX
> specifications. Having a consistent set of synchronized references
> across all of these specifications could enhance eventual interop
> profiling, provide a more consistent experience across
> implementations and provide a basis for subsequent specifications. We
> propose that after the current specifications in the OASIS WS-RX, WS-
> SX and WS-TX TCs have reached OASIS Standard status and after W3C WS-
> Policy 1.5 is a W3C Recommendation that the references in the RX, SX,
> and TX specifications should be updated to create a new synchronized
> set of standardized versions of the RX, SX and TX specifications. We
> would like to see these updated references point to only the WS-
> Policy W3C Recommendation. We recommend the TCs' charters should be
> clarified to reflect this direction.
> 
> Thank for your consideration,
> 
> Gilbert Pilz,     BEA
> Tom Rutt,         Fujitsu
> Bob Freund,       Hitachi    (2)
> Chris Ferris,     IBM
> Paul Cotton,      Microsoft
> Frederick Hirsch, Nokia      (1,3)
> Jeff Mischkinsky  Oracle
> Sanjay Patil,     SAP        (3)
> 
> (1) not a RX member
> (2) not a SX member
> (3) not a TX member
> 
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