OASIS members:

The OASIS Web Services Reliable Messaging (WSRM) TC has submitted the
WS-Reliability v1.1 specification, which is an approved Committee Draft,
for review and consideration for approval by OASIS members to become an
OASIS Standard. The TC's submission is attached below.

In accordance with the OASIS Technical Committee Process, the
specification has already gone through a 30 day public review period.
OASIS members now have until the 15th of the month to familiarize
themselves with the submission. OASIS members should give their input on
this question to the voting representative of their organization.

By the 16th of the month I will send out a Call For Vote to the voting
representatives of the OASIS member organizations, who will have until
the end of the month to cast their ballots on whether this Committee
Draft should be approved as an OASIS Standard.


-Karl

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Karl F. Best
Vice President, OASIS
office  +1 978.667.5115 x206     mobile +1 978.761.1648
karl.best@oasis-open.org   



1. A formal specification that is a valid member of its type, together
with appropriate documentation for the specification, both of which must
be written using approved OASIS templates;


contains the following five files:

     WS-Reliability-CD1.086.pdf   WS-Reliability version 1.1, CD 1.086
     ws-reliability-1.1.xsd       Ws-Reliability schema
     reference-1.1.xsd            Reference type schema
     fnp-1.1.xsd                  Features and Properties schema
     wsrmfp-1.1.xsd               wsrm features and properties schema


2. A clear English-language summary of the specification;

The WS-Reliabilty specification, version 1.1, specifies a
transport-independent, SOAP based protocol for the reliable delivery of
messages. Reliable message delivery may be critical to some applications
using Web Services.

SOAP over HTTP [RFC2616] is not sufficient when an application-level
messaging protocol must also guarantee some level of reliability and
security. This specification defines reliability in the context of
current Web Services standards.

The WS Reliability specification provides the following reliability
features:

- Guaranteed message delivery, or At-Least-Once delivery semantics.
- Guaranteed message duplicate elimination, or "At-Most-Once" delivery
semantics.
- Guaranteed message delivery and duplicate elimination, or
"Exactly-Once" delivery semantics.
- Guaranteed message ordering for delivery within a group of
(sequential) messages.

The WS-Reliabilty specification uses SOAP 1.1 or 1.2 Part 1. It may be
used with other transport protocols/bindings besides HTTP.


3. A statement regarding the relationship of this specification to
similar work of other OASIS TCs or other standards developing organizations;

This specification has been designed to be used in combination with
other complementary protocols, and has built upon previous experiences
from the ebXML Message Service [ebMS].)  Both WS-Reliability and ebMS
have same messaging reliability contracts as objectives: guaranteed
delivery, no duplicate delivery, ordered delivery, and combinations of
these.

However, WS-Reliability has improved on scalability and performance by
generalizing the use of sequence numbers, and can accommodate different
security and access conditions on each party, as this is more frequently
the case with a Web service and its clients, compared to more
symmetrical access conditions in messaging. The reliability contract is
more "application-oriented" in WS-R, where acknowledgment is on final
delivery, in contrast to "on receipt" by the message handler in ebMS.


4. Certification by at least three OASIS member organizations that they
are successfully using the specification consistently with the OASIS IPR
Policy;

The chair has received statements from the following TC member
organizations.



5. An account of each of the comments/issues raised during the public
review period, along with its resolution;




6. An account of and results of the voting to approve the approve the
specification as a Committee Draft;

Account of a TC roll call vote at teleconf on August 24, 2004

Name                   Company                Vote for CD 1.086
---------------        -------------------    ------------------
Joseph Chiusano        Booz Allen Hamilton    y
Jeff Turpin            Cyclone Commerce       y
Jacques Durand         Fujitsu                y
Kazunori Iwasa         Fujitsu                Not present
Tom Rutt               Fujitsu                y
Jishnu Mukerji         Hewlett-Packard        Not present
Robert Freund          Hitachi                y
Eisaku Nishiyama       Hitachi                y
Nobuyuki Yamamoto      Hitachi                Not present
Junichi Tatemura       NEC Corporation        y
Alan Weissberger       NEC Corporation        y
Abbie Barbir           Nortel Networks        y
Mark Peel              Novell                 y
Sunil Kunisetty        Oracle                 y
Jeff Mischkinsky       Oracle                 Not present
Pete Wenzel            SeeBeyond              y
Doug Bunting           Sun Microsystems       y
Tony Graham            Sun Microsystems       y
Chi-Yuen Ng            Univ of Hong Kong      y

15 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain, 4 not present
78% of eligible voting members voted yes
0% of eligible voting members voted no
0% of eligible voting members abstained


7. An account of or pointer to votes and comments received in any
earlier attempts to standardize substantially the same specification,
together with the originating TC's response to each comment;

This specification has not been previously submitted to OASIS.


8. A pointer to the publicly visible comments archive for the
originating TC;




9. A statement from the chair of the TC certifying that all members of
the TC have been provided with a copy of the OASIS IPR Policy;

The TC chair certifies that all members have been reminded to read the
IPR statement on numerous occasions and also in an e-mail “Call for IPR
disclosure regarding ws-Reliability spec”


10. Optionally, a pointer to any minority reports submitted by one or
more TC members who did not vote in favor of approving the Committee
Draft, or certification by the chair that no minority reports exist.

No minority reports have been submitted to the chair as of this writing.


.Submitted by the OASIS WSRM TC chair, Tom Rutt, trutt@us.fujitsu.com
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