RE: [xcbf] Interpretation of the CS under ballot

["Alessandro Triglia" <sandro@oss.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip H. Griffin [mailto:phil.griffin@asn-1.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 00:51
> To: Alessandro Triglia
> Cc: '[OASIS XCBF]'
> Subject: Re: [xcbf] Interpretation of the CS under ballot
> 
> 
> Allesandro,
> 
> If you read the comment resolutions document that I posted to 
> this list prior to the current ballot, you will see that the 
> comment you refer to 
> below was rejected. 


1) Phil Griffin made that comment, which proves that he was as confused
as I am, with regard to the use of BASE-64 in messages being exchanged.

2) The comment was not rejected by the TC, it was rejected by the Chair.
I haven't seen any resolution of the TC accepting/rejecting the comments
to the previous ballot.  Indeed, the current ballot will decide if the
document resulting from those rejections/acceptances is approved or not
by the TC.


> Instead, the more simple approach offered by 
> member Ed Day was adopted.


Again, it was not adopted, yet.


> 
> As Ed pointed out, in using his approach there will be no 
> backwards compatibility problems with existing 
> implementations if we should adopt your "encoding control" 
> idea in the future - assuming the solution you 
> now propose actually becomes a part of the ASN.1 standards.
> 
> Your approach would cause problems later with existing applications 
> of XCBF. By adopting Ed's solution, users can deploy today with 
> confidence that future XCBF work will not cause problems for 
> their customers.


Let's wait and see what the TC decides about this.

Alessandro