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Subject: Re: [wsrf] Fw: [members] WSRF v1.2 Submitted for OASIS Standard


Folks,

Let me second Ian on this and encourage all of you to start lobbying  
the OASIS membership.

On 1 Mar 2006, at 13:35, Ian Robinson wrote:

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> Hi everyone. 5 of ours specs have been sent to the membership for
> consideration as a final standard. Its a tremendous achievement for  
> the TC
> to have got to this stage within 2 years and we hope we'll be able to
> celebrate a successful conclusion for these specs in a month's time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ian & Dave
>
> ----- Forwarded by Ian Robinson/UK/IBM on 01/03/2006 12:26 -----
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>              "Mary McRae"
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>                 mary.mcrae             [members] WSRF v1.2 Submitted  
> for
>                                        OASIS Standard
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> OASIS Members:
>
> The OASIS Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) Technical Committee  
> has
> submitted the following specification set, which is an
> approved Committee Specification, to be considered as an OASIS  
> Standard:
>
> Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) v1.2
> - WS-Resource v1.2
> - WS-ResourceProperties v1.2
> - WS-ResourceLifetime v1.2
> - WS-ServiceGroup v1.2
> - WS-BaseFaults v1.2
>
> The TC's submission is attached below.
>
> In accordance with the OASIS Technical Committee Process, the  
> specification
> has already gone through a 60 day public review period:
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200507/msg00000.html
>
> as well as an additional 15 day public review period:
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200510/msg00005.html
>
> OASIS members now have until the 15th of March to familiarize  
> themselves
> with the submission below. OASIS members should give their
> input on this question to the voting representative of their  
> organization.
>
> By the 16th of the month we will send out a Call For Vote to the voting
> representatives of the OASIS member organizations, who will
> have until the end of the month to cast their ballots on whether this
> Committee Specification should be approved as an OASIS
> Standard.
>
> The normative TC Process for approval of Committee Specifications as  
> OASIS
> Standards is found at
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#3.4
>
> Any statements related to the IPR of this specification are posted at:
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wsrf/ipr.php
>
> Mary
>
> Mary P McRae
> Manager of TC Administration, OASIS
> email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> phone: 603.232.9090
>
> -----------------------
>
> This note of 13 Feb 2006 represents the submission, by the WSRF TC, of  
> the
> following approved committee specifications for
> consideration by the OASIS membership as a standard.
>
> Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) v1.2
> - WS-Resource v1.2
> - WS-ResourceProperties v1.2
> - WS-ResourceLifetime v1.2
> - WS-ServiceGroup v1.2
> - WS-BaseFaults v1.2
>
> a. The approved committee specs are available at:
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/16654/wsrf-cs-01.zip
>
> b. Note that editable versions of the specs are included in the zip at  
> (a).
>
> c. All schema and XML instances included in the specification are well
> formed and all expressions are valid.
>
> d. Summary of the specification:
> WSRF v1.2 defines a generic and open framework for modeling and  
> accessing
> stateful resources using web services. It introduces the
> notion of a WS-Resource as the composition of a resource and the web
> service through which it is accessed. WSRF includes mechanisms
> to describe views on the state of a WS-Resource; to support management  
> and
> lifecycle of the state through properties associated with
> the WS-Reource; and to describe how these mechanisms are extensible to
> groups of web services.
>
> e. Relationship of this specification to similar work of other OASIS  
> TCs or
> other standards developing organizations.
> W3C WS-Addressing specification. The WS-Addressing specification  
> defines an
> XML type - EndpointReference - that is used to reference
> web service endpoints. WSRF exploits the WS-Addressing  
> EndpointReference as
> the means to reference a WS-Resource.
> OASIS WSDM. WSDM defines mechanisms for both the management of web  
> services
> (MOWS) and management using web services (MUWS). It uses the WSRF
> WS-Resource concept to represent "manageable resources" and
> leverages the message exchanges defined in the WSRF specifications as  
> the
> interoperable means to interact with the state of the
> manageable resources.
> OASIS WS-Notification. WS-Notification defines mechanisms for web  
> services
> to interact using publish-subscribe patterns. Event
> producers and subscribers can be represented as WS-Resources and use  
> the
> mechanisms described in WSRF to expose their state. In
> addition, WS-Resources may use the mechanisms described in  
> WS-Notification
> to publish - and to subscribe to - events related to
> changes in the state of a WS-Resource.
> Global Grid Forum (GGF) OGSA-WG. The Open Grid Services Architecture  
> (OGSA)
> WG has defined an "OGSA WSRF Basic Profile v1.0"
> defining how WSRF is used to model "Grid services" as web services that
> provide access to stateful "Grid resources".
>
> f. The following organizations have certified that they are  
> successfully
> using the WSRF specification, as approved for submission to
> the OASIS membership, consistent with the requirements of the OASIS
> Technical Committee Process.
> IBM -
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrf/200602/msg00017.html
> Fujitsu -
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrf/200602/msg00018.html
> Intel -
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrf/200602/msg00021.html
>
> g. There have been 2 public review cycles of the specifications.
> The first public review ran from 6 July 2005 to 5 September 2005 -
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200507/msg00000.html.
> The second public review ran from 13 October 2005 to 28 October 2005 -
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200510/msg00006.html.
> A report of the comments/issues raised during the public review  
> periods,
> along with their resolution, is available at
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/16543/ 
> wsrf_report_cs-01.htm
> .
>
> h. Two ballots to approve the committee specs were held.
> The first ballot completed on 9 Jan 2006 -
> http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/wsrf/ballot.php?id=913 and
> approved the adoption of 5 committee specifications.
> The second ballot approved a non-substantive correction to a namespace
> reference in one of the specifications
> (WS-ResourceProperties) and completed on 20 Jan 2006 -
> http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/wsrf/ballot.php?id=926.
>
> i. There have been no earlier attempts to standardize WSRF.
>
> j. The public comments archives for WSRF are available at:
> http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrf/
>
> k. There are no minority reports.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ian Robinson,
> Dave Snelling
> WSRF TC co-chairs
>
>
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