Folks, You all may recall the history of OGSI and WSRF/WSN. Well here is the final chapter in the saga. Anyone interested in this work (which started life in GGF days) should take this opportunity to read and comment. W3C is a completely open organization, so forward this notice to anyone you know who might be interested. Begin forwarded message:

Resent-From: public-ws-resource-access@w3.org From: Bob Freund <bob.freund@hitachisoftware.com> Date: 31 March 2010 18:45:41 BST To: chairs@w3.org Cc: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>, public-ws-resource-access@w3.org, Chris Kaler <ckaler@microsoft.com>, mmcintosh@acm.org, Alain Regnier <alain@ussj.ricoh.com>, Toby Nixon <toby.nixon@microsoft.com>, Devon.Kemp@cda.canon.com , Marc Goodner <mgoodner@microsoft.com>, Anthony Nadalin <tonynad@microsoft.com

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Subject: Last Call Working Draft Announcement

(1) This is a Last Call Working Draft transition announcement for the following six Recommendation Track specifications:

(2) Document Titles and URIs

Web Services Enumeration http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-enumeration-20100330/

Web Services Event Descriptions http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-event-descriptions-20100330/

Web Services Eventing http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-eventing-20100330/

Web Services Fragment http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-fragment-20100330/

Web Services Metadata Exchange http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-metadata-exchange-20100330/

Web Services Transfer http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-transfer-20100330/

(3) Instructions for providing feedback

If you wish to make comments regarding these specifications please send them to public-ws-resource-access-comments@w3.org which is an email list publicly archived at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-resource-access-comments/

(4) Review end date

The last Call period for these documents ends on May 11, 2010

(5) A reference to the group's decision to make this transition

The Web Services Resource Access Working Group made the decision for this transition at its teleconference on March 16, 2010 see http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/10/03/2010-03-16.html#item04

(6) Evidence that the document satisfies group's requirements. Include a link to requirements

The Web Services Resource Access Working Group believes that these specifications satisfy the requirements of the working group's charter at http://www.w3.org/2008/11/ws-ra-charter.html

(7) The names of groups with dependencies, explicitly inviting review from them.

The following groups are known or suspected to have dependancies on one or more of these specifications:

DMTF Web Services for Management Management http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wsman/ OASIS Web Services Discovery and Web Services Devices Profile http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ws-dd OASIS Identity Metasystem Interoperability http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=imi OASIS Web Services Federation http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsfed

The Web Services Resource Access Working Group requests review from each of these working groups. The chairs and secretaries of the working group listed have been copied on the distribution list of this transition announcement as well as other individuals known to have expressed prior interest.

(8) Report of any Formal Objections

The Working Group received one Formal Objection during the preparation of these specifications http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-resource-access/2009Jun/0014.h...

The technical content of this Formal Objection was subsequently raised as a new issue http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7015 and re-examined. It was decided by the working group on 2009-10-27 on a 5:3 vote to close this issue with no action see http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/9/10/2009-10-27.html#item08

Another related issue was raised as http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7911 and was closed without action by a consensus decision on 2009-12-01 see http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/9/12/2009-12-01.html#item04

(9) Patent Disclosure Page Link can be found at http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/43088/status

This Transition Announcement has been prepared according to the guidelines concerning such announcements at http://www.w3.org/2005/08/online_xslt/xslt?xmlfile=http://www.w3.org/2005/08/01-transitions.html&xslfile=http://www.w3.org/2005/08/transitions.xsl&docstatus=lc-wd-tr#trans-annc

Regards Bob Freund, chair W3C Web Services Resource Access Working Group email: Bob.Freund@hitachisoftware.com

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