RE: MEP/Fault task force telcon Thursday?

Here are minutes from today's MEP task force call:
http://www.w3.org/2004/12/23-ws-desc-minutes.htm

And also included below in plain text.

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   [1]W3C

      [1] http://www.w3.org/

                      WSDL 2.0 MEP Task Force Discussion

23 Dec 2004

   See also: [2]IRC log

      [2] http://www.w3.org/2004/12/23-ws-desc-irc

Attendees

   Present
          Dbooth, Jonathan_Marsh, GlenD, Umit

   Regrets

   Chair
          JMarsh

   Scribe
          Marsh

Contents

     * [3]Topics
         1. [4]MEP Task Force Discussion (Issue LC50 and Issue LC5f)
     * [5]Summary of Action Items

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MEP Task Force Discussion (Issue LC50 and Issue LC5f)

   <dbooth> GlenD: Goals of processor conformance: Allow someone to point
   to the spec and complain if someone else is non-conformant. Also to
   have a product stamped "WSDL 2.0 Conformant".

   We're discussing adding a way to mark in WSDL the difference between a
   server requiring a feature and actually engaging the feature.

   I.e. A server can require a feature but then not use it.

   A client can choose whether or not to engage a non-required feature.

   Suggesting adding some guidance (not a marker).

   Glen: Hard to do that without adding more confusion.

   Umit: Client always wants to recieve messages in an encrypted fashion.
   Not a WSDL problem.

   Glen: Has to be out of band agreement.

   DBooth: This is what I wanted to warn about. If there's an optional
   extension, the client must be able to indicate (in-band or
   out-of-band) whether to engage that extension.

   Marsh: So a client can't tell just from looking at a batch of WSDL
   whether a required feature will be engaged by the server.

   Glen: No, but individual features (e.g. security), can specify how or
   whether a feature will be engaged by the server, and teh client can
   rely on that.
   ... This guidance would be great as a note or a blog, but doesn't seem
   like it should go into the spec.
   ... Like best practices and patterns of using TCP.

   Everyone likes DBooth's definition of node.

Summary of Action Items

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David Booth
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Received on Thursday, 23 December 2004 16:55:08 UTC