Updated Minutes 04 Sept 2003 WS Desc Telcon

With corrected roll-call..

W3C Web Services Description Teleconference 09/04/2003
Minutes of Meeting

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Roll (To be Corrected)
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Present:
 Erik Ackerman		Lexmark
 David Booth            W3C
 Allen Brookes          Rogue Wave Software
 Roberto Chinnici       Sun Microsystems
 Glen Daniels           Macromedia
 Youenn Fablet          Canon
 Dietmar Gaertner       Software AG
 Steve Graham           Global Grid Forum
 Philippe Le Hégaret    W3C
 Tom Jordahl            Macromedia
 Jacek Kopecky          Systinet
 Sandeep Kumar		Cisco Systems
 Amelia Lewis           TIBCO
 Steve Lind             AT&T
 Kevin Canyang Liu      SAP
 Lily Liu               webMethods
 Jonathan Marsh         Chair (Microsoft)
 Ingo Melzer 		DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology
 Jeff Mischkinsky       Oracle
 Dale Moberg            Cyclone Commerce
 Jean-Jacques Moreau    Canon 
 Arthur Ryman           IBM
 Adi Sakala             IONA Technologies
 Igor Sedukhin          Computer Associates
 Jerry Thrasher         Lexmark
 William Vambenepe      Hewlett-Packard
 Sanjiva Weerawarana    IBM
 Prasad Yendluri        webMethods, Inc.
 
Regrets:
 Jeffrey Schlimmer      Microsoft
 Bryan Thompson         Hicks & Associates (DARPA)
 Umit Yalcinalp         Oracle 

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1. Assign Scribe: Prasad Yendluri
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2. Approval of minutes: 
  - July 24 telcon [.1].
  - July FTF [.2, .3, .4] and summary [.5]

[.1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Jul/0139.html
[.2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Aug/0010.html
[.3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Aug/0011.html
[.4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Aug/0012.html
[.5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Aug/0013.html

No questions or corrections from anyone on either.

[APPROVED]
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3.  Review of Action items [.1].

PENDING   2003-03-13: Don will write a proposal for annotating schema
                      with part information.
DONE      2003-03-27: Philippe write up a proposal for embedding binary
                      data types in schema
PENDING   2003-05-13: DaveO to send a motivating example for R131.
DONE [.2] 2003-07-24: David Booth will prepare registration page for 
                      Sept F2F.
DONE [.3] 2003-07-24: David Booth will pose questions to Anne about 
                      URI vs QName. 
DONE      2003-07-30: Amy to generate proposal for fault rules.
DONE [.4] 2003-07-30: Editors to incorporate the first three Patterns 
                      TF recommendations into the draft.
PENDING   2003-07-31: Philippe to make a proposal for fixing the 
                      HTTP binding.

[.1] http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/desc/#actions
[.2] http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/34650/ws0309/
[.3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Jul/0136.html
[.4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Aug/0002.html

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4.  Administrivia
  a. Sept FTF logistics [.1].  Registration [.2] closes Sept 7th!
     Draft agenda by next week.
Registration closes in 3 days, not many people have registered yet. 
Pls do (one way or other) so that we can get a head count. 
  b. Joint W3C-OASIS tech plenary (Dec) update.
Discussion on this at CG. Coinciding with the XML 2003 conference in Philadelphia.
JM reluctant to cancel Nov F2F, to get WSDL 1.2 to much close to last call.
Also recommending not to have a full WG meeting at the plenary but chair and perhaps
editor attend to answer Q's and find which other groups have dependency on our work.
Glen: Do we have a plan for Nov F2F. 
Tom: SFO, CA hosted by Fujitsu. Nov 3-5.
  c. January FTF.  Offer to host in Sri Lanka (Arch unlikely).  Other
     offers?
Arch group opposed to Sri Lanka but, if we don't have any other offers we will
need to go with Sri Lanka. AR: Toronto still open. Glen: Bedford, MA an option.
  d. March FTF.  Technical Plenary March 1-5, Cannes-Mandelieu, France.
WSD F2F either 1-2 or 4-5 March.

[.1] http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/arch/3/07/f2fSeptLogistics.html
[.2] http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/34650/ws0309/
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5.  Task Force Status.
 a. Properties and Features (dormant)
 b. Patterns
 c. Attributes
 d. QA & Testing:  Web Services Validation Tools Open Source Project
[.1]

[.1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Aug/0016.html

AR announced Web services validation tools open source project 
and soliciting volunteers.
AR: Would it be appropriate to do a demo at the F2F?
Yes. 
ACTION: Jonathan to put this on the Agenda.

AR: Did we put a link to the WSDL validator on the W3C page?
DB: If you send me the details, I will.
AR: It is on the agenda.

ACTION: David Booth to put the link to WSDL validator on the same place 
        where other tools are listed.

The Attributes task force is about to reconvene will have a proposal / 
presentation for the Sept F2F.

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6.  New Issues.  Merged issues list [.1].
  - 77, 78: patterns issues raised by editors [.2].
  - WSDL Versioning, R075, R119 [.3]

[.1]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/issues/wsd-issues.html
[.2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Aug/0002.html
[.3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Aug/0014.html

JM: As a note, JeffreyS added 77,78 they run into while editing the patterns document.
Question on the list reg WSDL versioning, i.e. what to do with requirement R075, R119. 
Should we have an explicit issue to review our versioning strategy? Can people just version
things to their satisfaction by managing namespaces appropriately?

SW: It would be useful to add some version capability into the language itself. 
When you define an interface you can assign a version number and not have to change
the namespace.

JM: Is this something like a version attribute?
SW: yes, but .. (XSLT)?
AR: Some other spec. in W3C is working on this? Source code mgmt vendor are doing this?
    Some sort of chg mgmt spec.

JM: For now we will track this as an issue. If anyone has proposals feel free to send.

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7.  Attributes
  - TF recommendations [.1]
  - Forward steps?

[.1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Sep/0002.html

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8.  R085 Describing endpoint references.  [.1]
  - General agreement to add such capability to WSDL, but
    not agreement on the precise form of the annotations and
    where in the WSDL they should reside. Proposal 
    from Umit [.3], response from Arthur [.4].
  - Related issue (?) dynamic discovery of a service [.2].
  - Forward steps?

[.1]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Apr/att-0088/R085-20
03-04-22.html
[.2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003May/0004.html
[.3]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Jun/att-0024/umit_pr
oposal.html__charset_ISO-8859-1
[.4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Jun/0142.html

Umit out this week and next. Discussed at last F2F but, still work to be 
done, describing differences between AR's minimal approach and Umit's 
composite dynamic discovery approach. Umit sees more than just endpoint
URI as significant piece of info in a reference. Is there a potential
to reconcile both approaches and summarize the differences before the
F2F?

AR: Will talk with Umit off-line to come up with a unified approach.
I was proposing XPATH as the way to identify the endpoint but, I can 
go with a schema type to tag where the URI is or it could be a
complex type. There is not much conflict between the approaches.
We can unify the approaches.

JM: I will put this on the F2F Agenda. We will not track this b4 that.

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9.  Patterns.  New draft [.1]
  - Issue 77: Is the "name" the correct [local name] for
              interface/operation/input/@name? [.2]
  - Issue 78: Should we define an implied name if there is only 
              one /input? [.3]
  - Awaiting fault generation rule update from Amy.
  - Choose specific patterns for the standard [.4]:
      1. TF recommendation: drop request-response and multicast-
         solicit-response patterns, as subsumed by others [.5].
      2. Sanjiva's proposal: drop any pattern not used in a
         normative binding in our spec.
      3. Tom's proposal: drop the "multi" patterns.

[.1]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/wsdl12/wsdl12-patterns.xml
[.2]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/issues/wsd-issues.xml#x77
[.3]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/issues/wsd-issues.xml#x78
[.4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Aug/0010.html
[.5]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/wsdl12/meps-vs-iops/recommendations_clean.htm

77, 78 were raised by Sanjiva at F2F.
77: Description: The semantics of other AIIs with [local name] =
		'name' does not match the semantics of interface/input/@name
		and interface/output/@name. The latter is used to correlate
		messages with the interface/@pattern and does not allow the
		author of the wsdl:interface to coin a name (as other AIIs 
		with the same [local name] do).

Amy: WSDL internal identification IIRC. I believe the issue is that the name 
in the input/output sense shows up on the wire.

SW: No. In all other usages the attribute 'name' is used to give a name 
to a component (e.g. operation, interface or binding). Where as in 
interface/input/@name and interface/output/@name, the @name is used 
to identify the pattern. This is inconsistent.

Amy: Someone suggested the term "role". Potential conflict with the "role"
in SOAP 1.2 however.

SW: I proposed role. I think role is the right one, as it identifies what
function / role a message plays in a message exchange (pattern).

Amy: I am tempted to something like "reference"

Glen: Role is used to identify a role of a particular node in a MEP. Use
of "role" to identify a message in a MEP is wrong.

[Long discussion on what the appropriate replacement name for the @name would be]

Other suggestions MessageName, MessageType, MessageRole etc..

ACTION: Amy to propose a list of suggested replacement names on the list, 
for a straw-poll next week.

78: Description: If a pattern specifies only one input (or output)
		message, the @name AII is not needed to resolve which
		interface/input (or interface/output) matches the messages
		named in the pattern.

[Long discussion again..]

Resolution: Make the @ formerly known as "name" optional. We will also
state in the specification that this attribute is required to disambiguate
two or more messages that flow in the same direction in a pattern.

Issue 78 closed.

Choosing specific patterns to including the spec and which one to leave
for extensibility.

Amy: Sanjiva has one proposed criteria. Anything does not show up in part 3 
should not show up in par 3. Others?

JM: There were objections to Sanjiva's proposal before. Do people still 
object to that approach?

SW: We have discussed this further and we agreed that we document the 
patterns we use. Previously we did not have a way to define new patterns
w/o being completely in extensibility mode. We now have an architected 
way of doing it. 

Amy: WSDL 1.2 has to include at the patterns that were mentioned in WSDL 1.1.

JM: If anyone has objections to any of the three approaches listed in the agenda
for this item (see above), let us know as early as possible, so that we can
explore why that objection exists. If we adopt all three approaches, it is going 
to leave us with just two patterns. 

JM: I have not seen anyone object to dropping 1 
Amy: We will have objections to this (multi-cast?).

JM: To close this item, we will have time in our F2F agenda, an item to
choose which patterns we want to go out with in the final spec. Any 
positions, statements or rationales for accepting or rejecting any of 
these pattern-choosing methodologies or coming up with other 
methodoligies would be great. 

JM: I have not gone through the entire issues list to see if there are  
other open issues on patterns spec. But we are in pretty good shape with
the spec.

SW: We need a lot more work on the document. We have shared understanding in 
the group but, the document needs a bit more work to explain the vision.

JM: There may be a lot of information in the report from patterns task force that
David was editing.


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10. Removing message.  New Draft [.1], schema [.2]
  - Changes to Appendix C (Arthur) [.3]
  - Review of Appendix E (Jacek?) [.4]
  - Editors have closed issue-eliminate-message, 33, 6c, 12, 74 [.5].
  - Editors recommend closure of the following issues [.5].
    * Issue 27: Remove 'style' attribute [.6] 
    * Issue 39: Binding extensions depend on structure of portType 
                [.7]
    * Issue 40: Binding extensions for SOAP interact in a complex 
                way [.8]
    * Issue 45: fault/@use should be optional [.9]
    * Issue 48: soap:body/@use should be optional [.10] 
    * Issue 63: soap binding violates separation of abstract and 
                concrete [.11]

[.1] http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/wsdl12/wsdl12.xml
[.2] http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/wsdl12/wsdl12.xsd
[.3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Aug/0008.html
[.4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Aug/0017.html 
[.5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Aug/0004.html 
[.6]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/issues/wsd-issues.xml#x27
[.7]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/issues/wsd-issues.xml#x39
[.8]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/issues/wsd-issues.xml#x40
[.9]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/issues/wsd-issues.xml#x45
[.10]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/issues/wsd-issues.xml#x48
[.11]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/issues/wsd-issues.xml#x63

AR: Changes to Appendix C: I reviewed the change Jeffrey made and I found 
another reference in the  document as well. All that is cleaned up now.

JM: Appendix E: Can Jacek as proponent of alternate schema languages take 
an action to review?

Jacek: Yes, I will review that from that angle.

ACTION:  Jacek to review Appendix E. 

JM: Editors have closed issues 33, 6c, 12, 74. If anyone has objections let us know.
    Editors recommend closure of the issues 27,39,40,45, 48 and 65.
    Anybody has objections to closing them or plan to take a closer look at them?

JeffM: We will want more time to review these.

JM: We will wait for another 2 weeks. At the F2F we will ask for objections
to closing these. 

JeffM: OK

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11. Binding enhancements.  New draft [.1, .2]
  - Change @name from NCName to QName - not implemented?
  - Issue #2 addendum: Should we define a new binding element for 
                       default rule for wsoap:operation/@soapActionURI.
                       Proposal = interfaceTNS#operation-name.  Need
                       a separate issue number?
  - Unresolved proposal: Drop <soap:binding>: drop @protocol, change 
              <soap:address>: add @protocol.  Need to turn into an 
              issue?
  - Issue #80: Inappropriate name for binding component [.3].
  - Issue #81: Match between binding/@interface and 
               service/@interface should account for interface 
               inheritance. [.4]
  - Issue #82: Relax binding syntax constraints in favor of 
               semantic constraints [.5]
  - Issue #83: Specify interaction between binding extensions [.6]
  - Issue #84: Are SOAP header faults needed? [.7]
  - Issue #85: HTTP (non-SOAP) binding depends on message/part [.8]
               Philippe to make proposal.
[.1]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/wsdl12/wsdl12.xml#Binding
[.2]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/wsdl12/wsdl12.xml#Endpoint
[.3]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/issues/wsd-issues.html#x80
[.4]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/issues/wsd-issues.html#x81
[.5]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/issues/wsd-issues.html#x82
[.6]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/issues/wsd-issues.html#x83
[.7]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/issues/wsd-issues.html#x84
[.8]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/issues/wsd-issues.html#x85

JM: JeffS has indicated the @name was changed from NCName to QName as a 
resolution from f2f. - not implemented?

SW: When you refer to an operation from a binding you now have to refer 
to the QName, the namespace of the interface, in which the operation is
defined, as well as the operation.

JM: So we have to change the spec to make that @ and associated property 
a QName and also change schema to allow QName instead of NCName.

SW: Right.

JM: I will just leave on the agenda instead of giving an action.

Should we define a new binding element for @soapActionURI. 
Need a separate issue number. Any objection to creating a new issue?

ACTION: Editors to add this a separate issue.

Unresolved proposal: Moving @protocol from <soap:binding> to <soap:address> 
How to track this? Turn into an issue or tackle at F2F?

SW: At the F2F, then we would have updated the SOAP binding to where we are
now and it would be easier to see how this helps or not.

Amy: I agree. I like to see us get consistent with some of the significant
changes we put through at the last F2F.

JM: We will defer this and put on the agenda fro the F2F rather than having 
it as a separate issue on our issues list.

Issues 80-85: If anyone is interested, make proposals on the mailing list

SW: Again it is better to wait on these until we update the spec.

JM: I am happy to put the binding enhancement stuff on the back burner, 
we have other items on the agenda we can tackle in the next few telcons
prior to F2F. Ok I will reverse the agenda and put some of the other items
we have not gotten to on the agenda for next call.

[.1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Jul/0008.html
[.2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Jul/0107.html
[.3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Jul/0145.html
[.4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Jul/0148.html
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End of Call. 

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