Re: Issue 115

Good idea.

At 10:57 AM 3/19/2004 +0100, Jacek Kopecky wrote:
>David, in light of our decision to make notes non-normative I'd suggest
>using lowercase "should" instead of the uppercase "SHOULD", and same in
>all other notes in our spec.
>
>The uppercase keywords SHOULD NOT be overused. 8-)
>
>Jacek
>
>
>On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 18:12, David Booth wrote:
> > Per today's teleconference, here is suggested rewording for the second
> > sentence of section 6.1.1:
> >
> > [[
> > The presence of an optional extensibility element or attribute MAY
> > therefore augment the semantics of a WSDL document in ways that do not
> > invalidate the existing semantics.  However, the presence of a mandatory
> > extensibility element MAY alter the semantics of a WSDL document in ways
> > that invalidate the existing semantics.
> >
> > Note: Authors of extensibility elements SHOULD avoid altering the existing
> > semantics in ways that are likely to confuse users.
> > ]]
> >
> >
> > >Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:30:30 -0500
> > >To: "Sanjiva Weerawarana" <sanjiva@watson.ibm.com>, "Jonathan Marsh"
> > ><jmarsh@microsoft.com>, "WS Description List" <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
> > >From: David Booth <dbooth@w3.org>
> > >Subject: Re: Issue 115
> > >
> > >It depends on what you mean by "change".  If you mean that an optional
> > >extension may ADD to the existing semantics without invalidating them,
> > >then I agree.  However, many people will take the word "change" to mean
> > >that an optional extension may invalidate the semantics of something else
> > >in the document.  We need to be clear that an optional extension does NOT
> > >invalidate the semantics of anything in the WSDL document.  That's why
> > >it's optional.  A mandatory extension MAY invalidate the semantics of
> > >something in the WSDL document.  That's why you MUST understand it in
> > >order to understand the document as a whole.  This is what section 6.1.1
> > >tries to express.
> > >
> > >
> > >At 09:26 AM 3/17/2004 +0600, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
> > >>IIRC the request was to explicitly state that extensions change the
> > >>semantics. Your wording implies that (adding props to the component
> > >>model) but its not explicit.
> > >>
> > >>BTW even optional extensions change the semantics. However, a processor
> > >>may ignore the change .. but it still does change the semantics.
> > >>
> > >>Sanjiva.
> > >>
> > >>----- Original Message -----
> > >>From: "David Booth" <dbooth@w3.org>
> > >>To: "Jonathan Marsh" <jmarsh@microsoft.com>; "WS Description List"
> > >><www-ws-desc@w3.org>
> > >>Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 7:07 AM
> > >>Subject: Re: Issue 115
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> > I think the second sentence adds more confusion than clarification,
> > >>because
> > >> > it doesn't distinguish optional extensions from mandatory 
> extensions.  The
> > >> > second sentence was:
> > >> > [[
> > >> > The presence of extensibility elements and attributes MAY 
> therefore change
> > >> > the semantics of a WSDL document.
> > >> > ]]
> > >> >
> > >> > I think it would be better to rename the title of 6.3 to 
> "Extensibility
> > >>and
> > >> > the Component Model" and delete the second sentence, such that 6.3 
> reads
> > >>only:
> > >> >
> > >> > [[
> > >> > 6.3 Extensibility and the Component Model
> > >> >
> > >> > As indicated above, it is expected that the presence of extensibility
> > >> > elements and attributes will result in additional properties 
> appearing in
> > >> > the component model.
> > >> > ]]
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > At 10:43 AM 3/15/2004 -0800, Jonathan Marsh wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > >The text added so far is at [1].  If this proves adequate, we can
> > >> > >reassign this issue to part three while awaiting changes there.
> > >> > >
> > >> > >[1]
> > >> > >http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/wsdl20/wsdl20.htm 
> l#exte
> > >> > >nsibility-semantics.
> > >> > >
> > >> > >
> > >> >
> > >> > --
> > >> > David Booth
> > >> > W3C Fellow / Hewlett-Packard
> > >> > Telephone: +1.617.253.1273
> > >
> > >--
> > >David Booth
> > >W3C Fellow / Hewlett-Packard
> > >Telephone: +1.617.253.1273

-- 
David Booth
W3C Fellow / Hewlett-Packard
Telephone: +1.617.253.1273

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