RE: [wsia][wsrp-interfaces] Refactoring the data objects

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

I've been part of the Joint Interfaces subcommittee/workgroup since 
it started and I was always under the impression that it was a joint 
interface. In the F2F combined session I was under the impression 
that we were working out a joint base or core protocol, although it 
was referred to on several occasions as the WSRP Core Protocol.

I suggested during last Friday's WSIA meeting that it might prove 
more valuable to view this joint specification as a base from which 
both WSRP and WSIA separate specifications could be extensions, thus 
providing a unified effort to the world at large, which will be an 
easier sell than two separate specifications. It would also provide 
for a unified vocabulary and processing standard.

I removed the wsrp-interface address from this reply because I am not 
a member of that mailing list, and, although I doubt it is conscious, 
most of the posting lately has not been on the public-comment lists. 
Since I have occasion to discuss some of our work in other venues, it 
makes it difficult for those with whom I sometimes discuss this work 
to locate the relevant postings because it forces them to search the 
mail archives, or me to forward it.

One of the things we have to do is to sell this work and I think the 
key concept is interoperability.

Ciao,
Rex

At 6:47 PM +0200 7/15/02, Tamari, Yossi wrote:
>See my comments marked with [YT].
>(Most of them are in appendix A, since it seems appendix a is the 
>real definition of the spec, which I think is wrong, and is a result 
>of what Rich mentioned below about the obscurity of the interface.)
>
>The endless debate about putting WSIA concepts in the WSRP standard 
>is still there...
>
>	Yossi.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rich Thompson [mailto:richt2@us.ibm.com]
>Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 9:09 PM
>To: wsia@lists.oasis-open.org; wsrp-interfaces@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: [wsia][wsrp-interfaces] Refactoring the data objects
>
>
>As requested in Tuesday's Joint interfaces call, I have reworked the draft
>spec in an effort to factor the data items into the scopes presented at the
>June F2F. Personally I think this obscures too much and that some of the
>data items should move up to first class parameters in the interface.
>Hopefully this version can provide a reasonable basis for a discussion of
>which items should be promoted either for clarity or as part of supporting
>any factoring of the operations.
>
>Technical note: In order to make this readable but yet leave an indication
>of what was modified, I accepted the changes and then appended a space on
>the end of changed lines so that a change bar will appear on the left. So
>much changed in Appendix A that it all should be considered modified.
>
>(See attached file: WSIA - WSRP Interface Specification.doc)
>
>
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