Re: Review - Web Services Security: SOAP Message Security (1 of 3)

On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 11:45 US/Eastern, Rich Salz wrote:

>> *** 170, 171: Its surprising to see the WSS namespace URIs using the  
>> xmlsoap.org domain. This domain is the property of Microsoft Corp and 
>>  they maintain control over what such namespace URI resolve to. For 
>> an  OASIS standard one would expect namespace URIs to use the  
>> oasis-open.org domain instead.
>
> This one I can answer quickly off the top of my head.  It comes about 
> because of the original provenance of the first draft(s).

That explains how it started as xmlsoap.org, it doesn't explain why it 
should stay like that. SOAP 1.1 used an xmlsoap.org ns URI, SOAP 1.2 
doesn't. Am I missing something ?

Marc.

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Marc Hadley <marc.hadley@sun.com>
Web Technologies and Standards, Sun Microsystems.

Received on Wednesday, 24 September 2003 12:00:32 UTC