Submission Letter for WS-Reliability 1.1
OASIS Web Services Reliable Messaging TC
1. A formal specification that is a valid member of its type, together
with appropriate documentation for the specification, both of which
must be written using approved OASIS templates.
Zip file at: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/wsrm/download.php/8936/WS-Reliability-CD1.086.zip containing the following five files:
WS-Reliability-CD1.086.pdf WS-Reliability version 1.1, CD 1.086
ws-reliability-1.1.xsd Ws-Reliability schema
reference-1.1.xsd Reference type schema
fnp-1.1.xsd Features and Properties schema
wsrmfp-1.1.xsd wsrm features and properties schema
2. A clear English-language summary of the specification.
The WS-Reliabilty specification, version 1.1, specifies a transport-
independent, SOAP based protocol for the reliable delivery of messages.
Reliable message delivery may be critical to some applications using
Web Services.
SOAP over HTTP [RFC2616] is not sufficient when an application-level
messaging protocol must also guarantee some level of reliability and
security. This specification defines reliability in the context of
current Web Services standards.
The WS Reliability specification provides the following reliability
features:
- Guaranteed message delivery, or At-Least-Once delivery semantics.
- Guaranteed message duplicate elimination, or "At-Most-Once" delivery
semantics.
- Guaranteed message delivery and duplicate elimination, or "Exactly-
Once" delivery semantics.
- Guaranteed message ordering for delivery within a group of
(sequential) messages.
The WS-Reliabilty specification uses SOAP 1.1 or 1.2 Part 1. It may be
used with other transport protocols/bindings besides HTTP.
3. A statement regarding the relationship of this specification to
similar work of other OASIS TCs or other standards developing
organizations.
This specification has been designed to be used in combination with
other complementary protocols, and has built upon previous experiences
from the ebXML Message Service [ebMS].) Both WS-Reliability and ebMS
have same messaging reliability contracts as objectives: guaranteed
delivery, no duplicate delivery, ordered delivery, and combinations of
these.
However, WS-Reliability has improved on scalability and performance by
generalizing the use of sequence numbers, and can accommodate different
security and access conditions on each party, as this is more
frequently the case with a Web service and its clients, compared to
more symmetrical access conditions in messaging. The reliability
contract is more "application-oriented" in WS-R, where acknowledgment
is on final delivery, in contrast to "on receipt" by the message
handler in ebMS.
4. Certification by at least three OASIS member organizations that they
are successfully using the specification consistently with the OASIS
IPR Policy.
The chair has received statements from the following TC member
organizations. We include pointers to the e-mail archive record of the statements made.
Hitachi:
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrm/200409/msg00000.html
Fujitsu
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrm/200408/msg00130.html
Oracle:
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrm/200408/msg00125.html
NEC:
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrm/200408/msg00127.html
5. An account of each of the comments/issues raised during the public
review period, along with its resolution.
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/wsrm/download.php/9025/PublicCommentsIsssues-090204.html
6. An account of and results of the voting to approve the
specification as a Committee Draft.
TC roll call vote at teleconf on August 24, 2004
Name Company Vote for CD 1.086
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Joseph Chiusano Booz Allen Hamilton y
Jeff Turpin Cyclone Commerce y
Jacques Durand Fujitsu y
Kazunori Iwasa Fujitsu Not present
Tom Rutt Fujitsu y
Jishnu Mukerji Hewlett-Packard Not present
Robert Freund Hitachi y
Eisaku Nishiyama Hitachi y
Nobuyuki Yamamoto Hitachi Not present
Junichi Tatemura NEC Corporation y
Alan Weissberger NEC Corporation y
Abbie Barbir Nortel Networks y
Mark Peel Novell y
Sunil Kunisetty Oracle y
Jeff Mischkinsky Oracle Not present
Pete Wenzel SeeBeyond y
Doug Bunting Sun Microsystems y
Tony Graham Sun Microsystems y
Chi-Yuen Ng Univ of Hong Kong y
15 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain, 4 not present
78% of eligible voting members voted yes
0% of eligible voting members voted no
0% of eligible voting members abstained
7. An account of or pointer to votes and comments received in any
earlier attempts to standardize substantially the same specification,
together with the originating TC's response to each comment.
This specification has not been previously submitted to OASIS.
8. A pointer to the publicly visible comments archive for the originating TC
WSRM TC public comment list:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrm-comment/
WSRM TC list:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrm/
9. A statement from the chair of the TC certifying that all members of
the TC have been provided with a copy of the OASIS IPR Policy.
The TC chair certifies that all members have been reminded to read the
IPR statement on numerous occasions and also in an e-mail
“Call for IPR disclosure regarding ws-Reliability spec” at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrm/200405/msg00022.html
10. Optionally, a pointer to any minority reports submitted by one or
more TC members who did not vote in favor of approving the Committee
Draft, or certification by the chair that no minority reports exist.
No minority reports have been submitted to the chair as of this
writing.
Submitted by the TC chair, Tom Rutt, trutt@us.fujitsu.com