Re: Notification of Committee Draft vote from WSS TC

["Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

Kelvin:

Thanks for the clarification.

-Karl


Kelvin Lawrence wrote:
> 
> Hi again Karl. The errata are not intended to be normative. We held the 
> formal vote on the documents to make sure the TC was comfortable with 
> publishing the errata documents. The changes are mostly typos actually. 
> We organized the errata into categories to more easily help folks 
> reading them know if the changes were in normative or non-normative 
> sections of the spec. In the future, the TC plans to factor all of the 
> errata changes as well as additional (more substantive changes) into a 
> second version of the standard which we will of course take through the 
> full process all the way up to OASIS standard. So just to clarify, the 
> errata is not intended as a second edition in any way, it really is just 
> errata information that we want people to be aware of.
> 
> Cheers
> Kelvin
> 
> 
> 
> "Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org> wrote on 07/28/2004 08:38:11 AM:
> 
>  > Kelvin:
>  >
>  > Thanks for the notice. Could you please clarify for me the TC's intent
>  > of the authoritativeness of these errata? The TC web page describes them
>  > as non-normative, but all three errata documents have sections labeled
>  > as "normative".
>  >
>  > If the intent is that the errata are lists of things to be fixed in the
>  > next revision then I have no problem. But if the intent is to override
>  > any part of the approved OASIS Standard then the errata themselves would
>  > have to be approved by the OASIS membership. In other words, the TC's
>  > CD-level approval cannot override the membership's OS-level approval.
>  >
>  > I'll look forward to receiving your request to start a public review on
>  > the additional profiles. Thanks for the heads-up.
>  >
>  > -Karl
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Kelvin Lawrence wrote:
>  > >
>  > > Karl, per the OASIS process, I am writing as co-chair of the WSS TC to
>  > > inform you that a Committee Draft vote was held, and unanimously 
> passed
>  > > at the WSS TC meeting today. The vote makes a set of errata 
> documents to
>  > > the current 1.0 standard, Committee Drafts. We do not plan to advance
>  > > these documents further. We will now post them to the web page and
>  > > advertise them as the errata to the 1.0 standard. Below are the 
> URLs to
>  > > the documents that were approved by the TC today.
>  > >
>  > > [1]
>  > > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.
>  > php/7488/oasis-200401-wss-soap-message-security-1.0-errata-001.pdf
>  > >
>  > > [2]
>  > > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.
>  > php/7486/oasis-200401-wss-username-token-profile-1.0-errata-001.pdf
>  > >
>  > > [3]
>  > > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.
>  > php/7487/oasis-200401-x509-token-profile-1.0-errata-001.pdf
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > Further (unrelated to the above) , and solely as a heads up, we have a
>  > > Committee Draft (electronic ballot) vote in progress right now. That
>  > > vote ends later this week. If that vote passes we shall be submitting
>  > > two additional token profiles to you (REL and SAML) for Public Review
>  > > possibly later this week or early next week.
>  > >
>  > > Cheers
>  > > Kelvin, WSS-TC co-chair
>  > >
>  >
>  >
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