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Subject: What spec versions should be referenced by the RDDL documents?



While I was doing Action Item 0143 I took a look at the RDDL documents at

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrm/200702
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrmp/200702
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsmc/200702

and spotted a number of things that look like problems to me..

1. They have all been updated to talk about and point to the CD 01 of the latest versions of the specs (1.2 in the case of RM and RMP, and 1.1 in the case of MC). However since the namespace hasn't changed, this means that we no longer have RDDL documents associated with these namespace that point to the approved OASIS standard specifications.  Would it not be more appropriate to keep the RDDL documents pointing at the current standard until we have standard versions of the new specifications?  Apologies if the TC has already discussed this, and decided to make this update to the RDDL documents.

This is particularly noticeable, because the TC home pages (both members and public) contain links which claim to be for the standard versions of the specs, but actually take you to these RDDL documents which point to the new CDs.

2. The documents do try and contain a pointer to the previous versions. However they try to this by including a pointer in the "Related Namespace" section. Since the namespace hasn't changed, this turns out to be a self-referencing link.

For example the last line of  the RM RDDL at http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrm/200702 is " Previous WS-ReliableMessaging v1.1 namespace: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrm/200702   "

(also the link in the MC RDDL implies that the previous version of MC is 1.1, when in fact it is 1.0)

3. The RDDL documents have links to new versions of the Schema and WSDL files. These new versions are at

http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrm/200702/wsrm-1.2-schema-200702.xsd
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrm/200702/wsrm-1.2-wsdl-200702.wsdl
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsmc/200702/wsmc-1.1-schema-200702.xsd
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsmc/200702/wsmc-1.1-wsdl-200702.wsdl
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-rx/wsrmp/200702/wsrmp-1.2-schema-200702.xsd


However these aren't the files referenced by the CD's currently in public review. The CD's still reference the RM1.1 Errata 01, RMP1.1 Errata 01, MC1.0 Errata 01 versions of these files. Moreover the WSDLs in the list above actually import the Errata01 schemas, not the schemas from the list above. Given that the only difference between these "new files" and the Errata01 is one character in the copyright statement,  I would have thought that the RDDLs should link to the Errata01 versions, so that they reference the same files that are declared as Normative by the new specs (once the new versions become standard).


Peter Niblett
IBM Senior Technical Staff Member
Lead Architect WebSphere Messaging
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