Re: Publication of first working draft on web services internationalization

Dear Jonathan, dear Tony,

Sorry for my late reply to this mail. Thank you very much for your review  
of the document. We will take your proposals into account and hope to come  
back with an updated working draft soon.

Best regards,

Felix
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:15:43 +0900, Jonathan Marsh <jmarsh@microsoft.com>  
wrote:

>
> Based on discussion by the WSDL WG based on an initial review by Tony
> Rogers, we'd like to make the following comments about this spec.
>
> In general, this draft is in good shape.
> Some minor points:
> 1. although it refers to WSDL repeatedly, starting from the third
> line of the introduction, it does not include a reference to WSDL in the
> References appendix.
> 2. also in the References appendix, it has a reference to
> WS-Routing, but the spec referenced is WS-Addressing.
> 3. Example 4 could be confusing. It contains two instances of a
> preferences element, despite the first item in section 3.4 stating that
> only one preferences element is permitted. This example could lead a
> less careful reader to believe multiple preferences elements are
> permitted.
> 4. Example 5 makes two references to a language spec of "de_DE" -
> should this be "de-DE"?
> 5. Says "here are some document examples", but gives only one.
> Perhaps more will be added shortly?
> 6. Section 3.2 lists, in the first paragraph, special language tags
> "$neutral" and "$default". Should it also list "$user"? "$user" is
> covered in Section 4, but should probably appear in 3.2 as well.
> 7. In Example 6, the constraint element needs clarification. The
> value shown, "locale:$user", is not a valid value for this element
> (should be a valid QName pointing to a schema type, ideally illustrated
> within the spec as well).
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-ws-cg-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-cg-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Felix Sasaki
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 4:04 PM
> To: www-ws-cg@w3.org
> Cc: public-i18n-core@w3.org
> Subject: Publication of first working draft on web services
> internationalization
>
>
> Dear Web Services Coordination Group,
>
> This mail is to inform you that the i18n core working group [1] has
> published a first working draft on web services internationalization.
> The document describes enhancements to SOAP messaging to provide
> internationalized and localized operation via locale and international
> preference negotiation. These mechanisms can be used to accommodate a
> wide
> variety of development models for international usage. WS-I18N also
> provides a general-purpose mechanism for associating a "locale policy"
> with messages. It is designed to be extensible (e.g. support multiple
> international preferences and locale identifier models).
>
> We would appreciate your feedback very much.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Felix Sasaki (team contact of the i18n core wg)
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/International/core
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ws-i18n-20050914/
>

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