RE: [wss] The Web Services Roadmap (Action #6)

On 
reason I would like to see the roadmap submitted "somewhere" is that I would 
like to publicly comment on it and perhaps see some public discussion on some of 
its points. Currently there is not even an email to send comments to the 
authors.

 

Of 
course, I could publish my own "roadmap" but that seems counterproductive, as I 
agree with most of the document, but there are aspects I would like clarified or 
seem to me to be ill considered. I have heard on several occasions for 
knowledgeable parties that "the Roadmap will evolve in the future." This make me 
all the more anxious to see public comments collected somewhere that the authors 
might be able to consider them. 

 

Hal

  
-----Original Message-----
From: Kelvin Lawrence 
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Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 12:45 
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Subject: [wss] The Web Services Roadmap (Action 
  #6)

On the TC call today, 
  I took an action to post an e-mail regarding the Roadmap action item (#6 on 
  the actions list). At the F2F meeting on September 4th & 5th, the Chairs 
  (Chris and I) took an action to investigate having IBM and Microsoft submit 
  the Web Services Security Roadmap to the TC as a non-normative document. The 
  status on this action is that Chris and I are working with our respective 
  colleagues to investigate this. However, at the call today, a question was 
  asked along the lines of "why is this necessary and what was the intention to 
  do with the Roadmap given our clarified charter specifically states that we 
  will not evolve a roadmap". Further, the point was made that the document is 
  public on the web and that we do not intend to quote from it directly. It was 
  suggested that by having the roadmap submitted we at least had a snapshot of 
  the document as it was when the original WS-Security document was submitted to 
  th! e TC. It was also mentioned that we reference other documents that we do 
  not have "official copies" of in our TC document repository. No one on the 
  call today was able to fully clarify what the purpose of the Roadmap document 
  once submitted would be.. Therefore, I agreed to post this e-mail and ask the 
  TC members to please clarify the intended use/purpose of the roadmap once 
  submitted and also to re-assess how strong an issue this is. While we (the 
  chairs) are more than happy to pursue this action, it would be useful to know 
  that we are spending energy on the right issues. 

Let's discuss here and decide if there is a strong 
  enough desire for Chris and I to aggressively pursue this. 
  

Many thanks 
Kelvin