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
434-982-2204
grimshaw@cs.virginia.edu