Re: [ws-rx] Synchronizing references across the WS-RX/SX/TXspecifications - Sun Response

[Mike Grogan <Mike.Grogan@Sun.COM>]

This is being posted to the WS-RX/SX/TX Lists
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 It is encouraging to see several members recognize the need to
coordinate the activities of at least some of the WS-* technical
committee (TCs) or work groups (WGs), especially with respect to their
normative references and across organizations.[1] The proposed actions
are highly desirable, yet provide only first steps to encourage
meaningful results for this complex set of WS-* specifications.

The proposal presented below warrants further discussion, both within
individual OASIS TCs and across those TCs as well as with other
organizations. OASIS has a mechanism for coordinated discussions such as
Joint Committee (within OASIS) and a liaison policy (for external
coordination outside OASIS) [See a and b]. Sun recommends that such
avenues be established to provide a public forum for such discussion and
that all relevant WS-* TCs and WGs appoint representatives. We believe
these are appropriates mechanisms to begin to resolve coordination
concerns in an open deliberative body such as OASIS and in collaboration
with other organizations.

Jiandong Guo (WS-SX member)
Mike Grogan (WS-RX member)
Monica J. Martin (WS-TX member)
Sun Microsystems

  [a] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#2.16
  [b] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/liaison_policy.php

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----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Mischkinsky <jeff.mischkinsky@oracle.com>
Date: Monday, April 2, 2007 8:38 am
Subject: [ws-rx] Synchronizing references across the WS-RX/SX/TX specifications
To: wsrx <ws-rx@lists.oasis-open.org>

> 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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