[Bug 4853] [Guidelines] Two Free Standing Statements

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4853

           Summary: [Guidelines] Two Free Standing Statements
           Product: WS-Policy
           Version: FPWD
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Guidelines
        AssignedTo: fsasaki@w3.org
        ReportedBy: asirveda@microsoft.com
         QAContact: public-ws-policy-qa@w3.org


Title: [Guidelines] Two Free Standing Statements

Description:

This issue identifies two free standing statements in the Guidelines document
without any basis in the Framework or Attachment specifications.

a) Section 4.1.2 [1]

"The WS-Policy Attachment specification defines a set of attachment models for
use with common web service subjects: WSDL definitions [WSDL 1.1, WSDL 2.0 Core
Language], UDDI directory entries [UDDI API 2.0, UDDI Data Structure 2.0, UDDI
3.0], and WS-Addressing Endpoint References (EPR) [WS-Addressing Core]."

The Attachment specification does not define anything for WS-Addressing
Endpoint References.

b) Section 5.3.1 [2]

"New Assertion Authors are encouraged to try to not overload assertions. A
single assertion indicates a single behavior. Sets of assertions can by grouped
by an operator "all". This indicates that there is a relationship between the
assertions and they now constitute a policy alternative. 

If grouping is utilized, choices between alternatives can be indicated by an
"exactly one" operator. This basic set of operators allows Assertion Authors a
wide range of options for expressing the possible combinations of assertions
within their domain."

In the compact form, the All operator does not necessarily indicate a complete
policy alternative, and the ExactlyOne operator does not always wrap complete
policy alternatives. So, the above content is technically incorrect. Plus, the
above content is irrelevant to Section 5.3.1.

Justification:

There is no basis to support these statements.

Proposal:

A. s/, and WS-Addressing Endpoint References (EPR) [WS-Addressing Core]//

B. Drop b)

[1] http://tinyurl.com/2hm9cc#consumers
[2] http://tinyurl.com/2hm9cc#minimal-approach

Received on Friday, 13 July 2007 01:23:38 UTC