notes from issues call Jan 28

[Diane Jordan <drj@us.ibm.com>]

Yaron Goland,  Monica Martin and
I participated in the call today.  Notes from our discussion:  discussed:
- agenda for next week will include
the issues proposed for vote.  Since there may be more than we can
do on the call, we'll go through them according to the date of the proposal
to vote.

- in our opinion the phone based voting
seemed to work smoothly and we'll continue to use it when needed barring
some as yet undisclosed problem.

- when proposals call for issues to
be closed with no change to the spec we'd like to make sure the rationale
is included - eg, they are non-essential extensions or too complex or whatever
the reason is.   I'll bring this us with the spec editing team (which
has been generating many of the proposals lately and the full TC next week).
 

- there are a number of issues that
are likely to take a lot of work  and for some of these, there aren't
clearly good solution alternatives.  We agreed it would be good to
try to go through the list of issues and see if we should persue champions
for some of these. (I won't have time for a few weeks, but welcome any
efforts the rest of the team can contribute to this).  

- this gave rise to a discussion about
the possibility of creating an "errata" list for the spec at
some point which could include the explanation for issues that are closed
where the solution is the best alternative we were able to identify at
this time, but is still somewhat suboptimal or incomplete (an example might
be handling of capabilities evolving but not final in the WSDL group).
 Something similar might be possible for  those issues that are
closed with no change to the spec for this version but which might warrant
reconsideration at some future time.  Having the rationale in the
issue resolution should make it possible to create these later if that
is desired.  We would not expect these to be included as part of the
spec, be normative or be a formal deliverable of the TC.  
 
Regards, Diane
IBM  Dynamic e-business Technologies
drj@us.ibm.com
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