All, Recall that back at the January face-to-face Frank and Dave took an action to write up their take on the requirements for (low-level) naming. Attached is their draft. A few comments of mine based on my read and discussions of the document with Dave. 1) This is not intended as a replacement for the existing work. 2) It is requirements - not specifications. Rather, it is a call for specifications that address the requirements. 3) Several of the requirements are met by the existing WS-Naming draft specification, though some are not. 4) Two of the proposed "specifications", 5.2 and 5.4 are covered by the existing WS-Name specification. A variant of 5.3 is covered in the WS-Name spec. The variant specified a technique that could be used to ensure that identifying information would be sent with the headers - specifically embed names in the reference parameters. Personally I fell that 5.3 is a fine replacement for that if desired. 5.1 is not covered at all, and I must confess that it seems so obvious that I had implicitly assumed it true. Dave says it is not - so having a spec that says it must be true seems ok to me. 5) I think that with a small amount of work on this document and the WS-Name spec we can make them dovetail quite nicely. GGF is a scant two weeks away. I'd like to schedule a teleconference with the following agenda on Friday April 28th, at 10 AM eastern. (Dial in information as soon as I find a dial in number we can use.) If you plan on attending, PLEASE read both the existing draft WS-Name spec and this document before the call. Proposed Agenda: Max time Subject 5 minutes Agenda bashing 30 minutes Discuss draft requirements document including vis a vis existing draft WS-Name document 30 minutes Discuss approval of DRAFT WS-Names document to send to GFSG for GFSG approval. Note we will prepare a version that does not include the language that overlaps 5.3. 25 minutes Attempt to come to closure on working group consensus regarding WS-Directory, RNS, or failing that, at least what the issues are. Andrew Grimshaw Professor of Computer Science University of Virginia 434-982-2204 grimshaw@cs.virginia.edu