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

["Patil, Sanjay" <sanjay.patil@sap.com>]

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Mischkinsky [mailto:jeff.mischkinsky@oracle.com] 
>Sent: Monday, Apr 02, 2007 8:37 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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