Re: intra-port relationships (was: Re: WSDL 1.2: Updated draft (June 30) - typos and minor errors)

+1 on reopening the issue and removing this restriction.

-Joyce

Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:

> "Prasad Yendluri" <pyendluri@webmethods.com> writes:
> > confusion areas. The intera-port-relationship issue we closed recently by
> a
> > vote or whatever without addressing the confusion or mystery around that
> goes
> > against this aim unfortunately, IMHO.  I would urge that we try and
> clarify
> > the text in such places in the spirit of removing the confusion in the
> spec
> > rather than closing the issues by majority vote to just for the sake of
> > addressing it formally. My 2 cents..
> >
> > Regards, Prasad
>
> I agree that the stmt in the current draft about intra-port
> relationships is un-motivated:
>
>   <item><p>None of the ports communicate with each other (i.e. the output
>   of one port is not the input of another).
>     <issue id="issue-intra-port-relationship" status="closed">
>       <head>Should intra-port relationships be allowed?</head>
>       <source>Prasad Yendluri</source>
>       <p>The above restrictions seems to be unnecessary. What is the
>       justification?</p>
>       <resolution><p>Decided to retain this restriction as no one could
>       figure out what one would want with having this feature. See
>       Wed PM minutes for June '02 F2F.</p></resolution>
>     </issue>
>   </p></item>
>
> We did close this issue, but I personally have no objection to
> re-opening it and doing away with this restriction. Basically,
> that would amount to not saying anything about intra-port
> relationships. IMO that's ok because I personally don't think
> many would think about intra-port relationships and hence this
> paragraph would only cause confusion.
>
> What does everyone think?
>
> Sanjiva.

Received on Monday, 8 July 2002 03:44:50 UTC