OASIS Open

Arjuna Technologies Limited

No

Arjuna is voting NO on the WSDM OASIS specification ballot that is
currently open.

We are happy with TC CD status, but the spec has
dependencies on non-finalised and proprietary specifications, including WS-N
and WS-Addressing. Furthermore WS-N uses a different version of
WS-Addressing than the WSDM specs do! Hence it is premature to
elevate it to the level of OASIS international specification. In
particular WS-Addressing is currently being worked on and looks like
the final version when it finally emerges will be significantly
different from its various antecedent proprietary versions and won't be
available until
after July 2005. In particular, already we've seen that
ReferenceProperties has been removed
from the current draft of WS-Addressing in W3C, so this will have an
immediate affect
on WSDM.

We think that this will set a dangerous precedent for OASIS.
Specifications that attain the OASIS international specification
level ought to be stable and have a certain amount of rigor and
interop testing.

The main issue is that this draft does not address the problems with
normative references and dependencies to unstable and proprietary
specifications. Arjuna supports the intent of the TC to track those
specifications and to make changes as appropriate to the WSDM
specifications. However, precisely because those dependant
specifications are not finalised themselves, it is premature at this
time to elevate the WSDM specifications to OASIS specification.