Re: AI 131 - BP requirements that apply to WS-RA's reference to WSDL 1.1

A large part of this issue is about what it means for one spec to 
normatively reference another spec. That's a pretty big subject but, in 
the context of this issue I construe it in the following way:

1.) Except for WS-Frag, the specs produced by WS-RA all include WSDL 
definitions. These WSDL definitions must comply with the requirements in 
Section 4, "Service Description", of BP 1.1 [1] which, as far as I am 
aware, they do.

2.) In addition to this, several of our specs discuss or hint at the 
possibility of implementations that produce/provide WSDLs that are 
refinements or extensions to the WSDLs defined in our specs. For 
example, a service that supported WS-Transfer might, if asked correctly, 
provide a consumer with a WSDL that extends the W3C version of the 
WS-Transfer WSDL to include a SOAP binding of the "Resource" portType 
along with a service/port for that service's endpoint. This WSDL must 
also comply with the requirements in Section 4.

3.) End-user WSDLs are free to comply (or not) with the requirements in 
Section 4 of BP 1.1 as they see fit.

[1] http://www.ws-i.org/Profiles/BasicProfile-1.1.html

- gp