RE: Changes between Ws-Policy 1.2 and 1.5

A list of substantive changes in Web Services Policy - Framework 1.5 [1] and Web Services Policy - Attachment 1.5 [2] since the WS-Policy Member Submission (1.2) [3] is given below.  WG members are asked to comment on this list if they feel it is incorrect.



Framework



1) Added support for the xml:id attribute (see 4.2 Policy Identification [4]).

2) Added a conformance section - 6. Conformance [5].

3) Replaced URI with IRI.

4) Enhanced 5. Security Considerations [6] (new content is from the Security Considerations Section in the Understanding WS-Policy [7] MSDN white paper).

5) Clarified that an unrecognized element within a policy expression MUST be an assertion (see 2.2 Extensibility [8]).

6) Clarified that policy assertion parameters are opaque to framework processing (see 4.3.2 Policy Assertion Nesting [9]).

7) Added element extensibility (via {Any}) to the PolicyReference element (see 4.3.4 Policy References [10]).

8) Added a new feature: 4.4 Ignorable Policy Assertions [11].

9) Defined an XML Media Type to describe Web Service Policy documents serialized as XML in Appendix A. The application/wspolicy+xml Media Type [12].



Attachment



1) Added a conformance section - 8. Conformance [13].

2) Replaced URI with IRI.

3) Added a new section - 5. WS-Policy Attachment for WSDL 2.0 [14] - that describes a mechanism for associating policy expressions with Web service constructs in WSDL 2.0.

4) Added a new domain expression: 3.4.1 URI Domain Expression [15].



[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-20070904/

[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-attach-20070904/

[3] http://www.w3.org/Submission/2006/06/

[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-20070904/#Policy_Identification

[5] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-20070904/#Conformance

[6] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-20070904/#Security_Considerations

[7] http://msdn.microsoft.com/ws/2006/07/understanding-ws-policy/

[8] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-20070904/#Extensibility

[9] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-20070904/#Policy_Assertion_Nesting

[10] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-20070904/#Policy_References

[11] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-20070904/#ignorable-policy-assertions

[12] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-20070904/#media-type

[13] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-attach-20070904/#Conformance

[14] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-attach-20070904/#ws-policy-attachment-for-wsdl20

[15] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-attach-20070904/#uri-domain-expression



I hope this helps.



/paulc



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From: public-ws-policy-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ws-policy-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of ashok malhotra
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:46 AM
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Subject: Changes between Ws-Policy 1.2 and 1.5





Is there an official log of the changes between WS-Policy 1.2 and 1.5?

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All the best, Ashok