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Re: Web Services Federation Language (WS-Federation)

• To: Chiusano Joseph <chiusano_joseph@b...>
• Subject: Re: Web Services Federation Language (WS-Federation)
• From: Bill de hÓra <bill@d...>
• Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:18:31 +0100
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Chiusano Joseph wrote:


> "This WS-Federation Specification is an initial public draft release and
> is provided for review and evaluation only. BEA, IBM, Microsoft, RSA
> Security and VeriSign hope to solicit your contributions and suggestions
> in the near future."
> 
> I think the reasoning is that the spec is not yet ripe enough for public
> comments.

Then perhaps it has no business being aired in public (but I doubt 
that's the reason anyway Joe).


> The authors of the Specification intend to submit a revised version of
> the Specification to a standards body with a commitment to grant a
> royalty-free license to their necessary patents.  We need assurance that
> your feedback and discussions are consistent with that goal.
> </Announcement>

That would be good, but it would be better if there was just one. 
There are enough (some, half-baked) reliability specs out there.


> So that is 3 out of (approximately) 18 GSA specifications. My hope is
> that more GXA specifications will follow suit.

Aside from the obvious 'why do we need 18 ws-glob specs?'.. is 
anybody implementing these things?

Bill de hÓra
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