- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:47:19 -0500
- To: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
- Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:07:52PM -0700, Champion, Mike wrote: > It is on the about-to-be=published issues list. Great, thanks. > > In the interest of closing this issue so we can all get on with our > > lives, > > Uhh, we're getting along just fine with our lives without this. Maybe > you could too eh? :-) That's one way to look at it. 8-) > >I'm going to take a stab at providing some closing text > > My suggested closing text would be something like "The message raising the > issue cited Roy Fielding's dissertation as if it were a normative constraint > on the Web Services Architecture. We currently cite it as informative, i.e., > an input to our deliberations. Until the TAG puts the "uniform interface > constraint" in the Web architecture document draft, and it stays in > subsequent drafts after the inevitable challenges from outside the TAG, the > WSA WG sees no reason to consider this issue." Hey, any reason works for me! > In other words, Mark, I think you need to talk to the TAG, not us, at this > point. I would like nothing more than to do that! But, to be process-friendly, I need my issue resolved. Of course, a "Please go do that" from the chair would take care of that issue. Are you asking me to do this? > Can you explain your rationale for raising a question related to our > non-compliance with a non-normative assertion about the Web architecture? > Or has the TAG made this normative without me noticing? Nope, they haven't got to it yet. Dan Connolly and Roy Fielding have stated[1] that the uniform interface is key. No other TAG member, that I'm aware of, has spoken up (at least in their capacity as a TAG member - hi Dave 8-). [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Mar/0187 Cheers, MB -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Web architecture consulting, technical reports, evaluation & analysis
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