RE: issue 7911 and BP WG (was [wsi_wsbasic] [NEW ISSUE] use of SOAP Sender faults])

FYI, the WS-I BP WG today accepted the following issue related to 7911. 
It was assigned issue numbers BP20159 (for BP 2.0) and BP12073 (for BP 1.2).

- gp

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Subject: 	[wsi_wsbasic] [NEW ISSUE] use of SOAP Sender faults
Date: 	Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:54:43 -0500
From: 	Doug Davis <dug@us.ibm.com>
To: 	wsi_wsbasic@mp.ws-i.org




SOAP defines a "Sender" (1.2) and "Client" (1.1) fault but isn't very 
explicit about when to use it.  Likewise, when a receiver gets a message 
that isn't properly formed w/o clear guidance on what fault should be 
generated its possible that there could be an interop problem when a 
client is expecting one type of fault when the server sends something 
different.  This issue was discovered during the proceedings of the W3C 
WSRA WG.

Proposal:
Add the following to section 3.4 in BP 1.2 and BP2.0.

3.4.2 SOAP Client Faults  (BP 1.2) / 3.4.7 SOAP Sender Faults  (BP 2.0)

When a RECEIVER receives an incoming message that is ill-formed or does 
not contain adequate information to be properly processed, the RECEIVER 
has two options. First, if the specification that defined the incoming 
message defines a fault that is specifically focused on the particular 
error condition found within the message, then the RECEIVER needs to use 
that specification specific fault. However, if the specification does 
not define a fault then to ensure interoperability this Profile requires 
the use of the SOAP Client/Sender fault.

Rxxx  Upon detection of a message that is not properly formed, or is 
missing sufficient information to be properly processed, unless the 
specification that defined the incoming message defines a fault that is 
specific to the error condition, the RECEIVER MUST generate a SOAP 
Client/Sender fault.

thanks
-Doug
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