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Subject: [wss] RE: Security Rift
Darryl, I just read your article at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,599072,00.asp. This is a gross exaggeration of what's really going on. We're having a discussion. It certainly shouldn't be characterized as a rift. Discussions are a normal part of the standardization process. Standardization is about consensus. Consensus requires agreement among the entire team. There are about 75 people participating in this group, representing about 50 different companies, plus a few individuals such as myself. I tend to agree (although I'm flexible in my opinion) that the team needs to produce a specification for the WSDL extensions before releasing an official OASIS draft of the SOAP extensions specification. You won't achieve interoperability until you have a standard way to describe the extensions. I also don't think that a short delay on the part of the WSS team will be damaging to the industry. The MSFT/IBM/VRSN spec is publicly available. I don't think it's critical to put the OASIS stamp of approval on this spec for it to be viewed as valid. Consider, for example, that SOAP 1.1, WSDL 1.1, and UDDI 2.0x still don't have an official stamp of approval from any standards organization. Yet people treat them as standards. Best regards, Anne Thomas Manes 617-497-1748 (land) 617-642-3144 (mobile)
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