Issue 15: Non-standardized Normative References

[Marc Goodner <mgoodner@microsoft.com>]

Issue 15

-----Original Message-----
From: Hal Lockhart [mailto:hlockhar@bea.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:16 PM
To: wsfed@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: Marc Goodner
Subject: NEW Issue: Non-standardized Normative References

Protocol:  WS-Federation

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/25513/ws-federation-1.
2-spec-ed-02.doc

Artifact:  spec

Type: admin

Title: Non-standardized Normative References


Description:

The following Normative References appear in the document:

[WS-Eventing]   W3C Member Submission, "Web Services Eventing
(WS-Eventing)", 15 March 2006
http://www.w3.org/Submission/2006/SUBM-WS-Eventing-20060315/

[WS-MetadataExchange]   Web Services Metadata Exchange
(WS-MetadataExchange), August 2006
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/mex/

[WS-ResourceTransfer]    W3C Member Submission, "Web Services Resource
Transfer (WS-ResourceTransfer)", August 2006
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2006/08/resourceTransfer/

None of these documents have been approved by a standards body or even
submitted for standardization. This is considered bad practice by OASIS
and may soon be specifically prohibited by the TC process. It is
currently prohibited on other standards bodies that WS-Federation might
be submitted to, such as ITU-T.

Related issues:

Issue 4

Proposed Resolution:

Possible Resolutions include:

1. Downgrade references to non-normative if current usage permits.

2. Copy necessary portions of referenced specifications into
WS-Federation and eliminate need for normative reference.

3. Get the referenced documents standardized.

Hal