Hi Asit and everyone: Sorry: I am still a bit groggy. (Caught a cold..)
Hi: Apologies again for not making it on this call..
Asit: Thank you very much for your clarification of your opinion.
I believe this is a very important issue, and we should have a well reasoned and well articulated position on this for the wider audience -- whatever may be the final decision of the group.
I agree and still, I think at this point making changes to the spec could be dangerous due to the pros and cons I mentioned before.
Given that WS-Policy draft (that has been submitted to W3C) is very stable - has been co-authored by representatives from several organizations, already implemented by many vendors and many other OASIS standards on security, transaction, reliability, etc. dependent on this spec - and changes to the current draft of WS-Ag spec is minimal (not surprising, since we started with WS-Policy for term composition), there are many good reasons to embrace WS-Policy now.
I personally would like to see how / whether the spec would change in the new W3C community. I still think that it is too early to tell. Best regards Toshi ------- NEC 中央研究所 主席技術主幹 中田 登志之 Toshiyuki Nakata Executive Chief Engineer Central Research Laboratories NEC Corporation +81-44-431-7653