Draft letter to WS-Eventing Team

[David Snelling <David.Snelling@UK.Fujitsu.com>]

Folks,

Working from Martin's initial draft and the actions fro the call to 
include the following issues:

>   - They should feel free to pass the letter on to others in their
>       community.
>   - The TC offers to make a presentation on BaseNotification to the
>       Eventing team.
>   - The letter will be an email from the TC chairs.
>   - We are to ask for an indication of timetable.
>   - We are to be very nice in how we ask.

I have drafted the following, but Martin has not had the time to 
eye-ball it.

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Folks,

The OASIS WS-Notification TC has noted with much interest the August 
2004 edition of WS-Eventing. The WS-Notification Technical Committee 
was formed to develop a set of specifications to implement the 
notification pattern. The work was based on initial industry 
contributions, with the intention of soliciting additional industry 
input and involvement.  The Technical Committee recognises that there 
other inputs to include in a notification infrastructure, and that 
WS-Eventing provides a meaningful contribution in this space.

Having examined both sets of specifications, the TC observes that 
WS-Eventing and WS-BaseNotification address a very similar problem area 
and architecturally are similarly structured. While it is noted that 
there are differences, the overlapping subset is significant enough to 
warrant further investigation. To this end the TC would like to invite 
the authors of WS-Eventing to join the TC and submit WS-Eventing as a 
contribution. We would hope that a unified infrastructure, meeting the 
requirements of both WS-BaseNotification and WS-Eventing, would an 
output of the TC.

To facilitate this, the TC is offering to make a presentation to the 
WS-Eventing team on the current status of WS-BaseNotification and our 
thoughts on synergy between the two specifications. Please feel free to 
discuss this within your wider communities, and let us know what your 
time scales are likely to be, as we are making good progress and would 
very much like your input to the process.

The TC hopes the WS-Eventing Team will consider this proposal, and 
looks forward to hearing from the group.

William Vambenepe and Peter Niblett
Chairs OASIS WS-Notification TC

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Comments welcome.
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Take care:

     Dr. David Snelling < David . Snelling . UK . Fujitsu . com >
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