RE: [issue 6432] - a modest proposal

Doug,

> As for "keeping A" - let's not forget that "A" is broken.

It is not clear to us what your definition of "broken" is in this context.  From our understanding, solution "A" has been successfully implemented, tested and interop'ed by hundreds of different implementers.  In those terms is it difficult to understand why you would call it "broken".  In the worst case one might describe solution A as "adequate" or "successful".

On the other hand, it would seem that Solution B has never actually been implemented, tested or interop'ed in the Eventing context.  Further, we are unaware of any implementer who has considered the use of the Mode attribute in Eventing to be a problem or to in any way inhibit their usage scenarios.  It should be noted that many of these implementers have successfully extended Eventing with new Modes.  Please also note that a number of current Eventing implementers, including Microsoft, Avaya, Fuji-Xerox and Odonata, have already voiced public concern to W3C over this new proposal (Solution B).

--Geoff


From: public-ws-resource-access-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ws-resource-access-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Doug Davis
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 6:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [issue 6432] - a modest proposal


I wouldn't describe the situation the same way.  I don't believe the proposal suggests that
people keep 'A' - rather it simply offers it as an option for those who do not wish to change
their code.  If I were starting from scratch with my implementation I would much prefer to
have a single way of expressing how/where to send messages, not two.  That's the
more interoperable solution.

As for "keeping A" - let's not forget that "A" is broken. People are free to continue to use it
as they do today, as long as they understand the limitations. But WS-E itself should promote
a solution that isn't broken and is consistent with the rest of the WS-* stack.

thanks
-Doug
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Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
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04/14/2009 05:44 AM

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Re: [issue 6432] - a modest proposal







On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Doug Davis wrote:

> Yves,
>  Actually, what you describe is what we have now.  We have two different
> ways of
> expressing how/where to send a message(s) within the same spec.  We're
> moving
> towards one way.  And, in doing so we're moving towards having it be
> consistent with
> all other WS-* specs.  Code reuse!  No specialized "message sending" code
> needed
> just for WS-Eventing.  That's even better for interoperability.

I am not talking about the quality of the solutions here. My point was
that we currently have solution 'A' in Eventing, and the possibility of
using solution 'B' using a mU trick. You propose to add in Eventing
solution 'B' but keep 'A' and just add a mU to 'A'.
Regardless of what are 'A' and 'B', I see absolutely no gain wrt
interoperability. We still have two different solutions that won't
interoperate.


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Baroula que barouleras, au tiéu toujou t'entourneras.

        ~~Yves