Issue 378 - deprecating of documents

[Kelvin Lawrence <klawrenc@us.ibm.com>]

The chairs had an action (issue 378)
to contact the OASIS staff on the subject of document deprecation. I sent
a mail to Mary McRae of the OASIS staff on this point. With her permission
I am posting her reply below:

I asked:

> I have been asked by the TC to ask if OASIS has
a "position" on marking 
> older specs as deprecated once newer ones (we
are thinking WS-Security 1.1)  
> become standards (hopefully later this year).
I know that the process doc 
> does not address this per-se. Thanks for any
thoughts. 
>  
>  Cheers
>  Kelvin

And she replied:

> Hi Kelvin,
>  
>   I don't think marking them as deprecated is appropriate since
in
>  many circumstances people continue to use older versions of
>  specifications and choose not to upgrade. We do intend, with
the
>  rollout of the new artifact identification rules, to create
a URL that
>  will always display the most recent version - people accessing
can
>  either put in the specific version or choose to view the current
>  release. Also, on the OASIS standards page, you'll see specifications
>  with multiple versions listed. I think they're currently listed
in
>  reverse order (which I'm hoping to change to most recent first).
And
>  TCs, on their home pages, will also note the most recent versions
of
>  the specs first.
>  
>  I'm not sure I really answered your question, but hopefully
that gives
>  you some ideas!
>  
>  Mary.