Re: ref to member submission

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Doug Davis wrote:

> Bob,
>  as I was doing the edits we talked about on yesterday's call I paused on
> adding the reference to the member submission to the bibliography section.
> As I was adding it I couldn't figure out what it would mean to a new
> reader of the spec.  Are we promoting it and asking people to use it for
> some purpose?  I'm worried that it will be confusing and send the wrong
> message.  I checked our favorite examples (WSA and WSPolicy) and neither
> of those include these kinds of references.  If we want to have a trail
> that leads back to the member submissions then I think putting it in the
> "previous version" link would be more appropriate.  Then people can follow
> our versions thru history and eventually end up at the member submission.

SOAP did link informatively to SOAP 1.1 [1], "previous version" links are 
only for W3C produced documents, so the member submission won't qualify 
for that.


[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/#nonnormrefs

> Anyway, I'd like to discuss this further on next week's call.
>
> thanks
> -Doug
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