WIMS> Normative Ref to WSDL/2.0 would block WIMS as PWG CS

From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Mon Oct 31 2005 - 12:53:14 EST

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    Hi,

    Per the WG last comment on WIMS Protocol spec last week (for examples
    of WSDL definitions and actual SOAP messages), I've been working on WSDL
    for the WIMS Protocol - following the excellent examples in the recent
    WS-Polling submission from IBM to W3C.

    Good News - conveniently, I recently released the WIMS Message schema,
    which is most of the work - the WSDL itself is very small by comparison.

    Bad news - we all repeatedly agreed to make the non-standards-track
    bindings (using WSDL/1.1 and SOAP/1.1) _optional_ for compatibility and
    make standards-track bindings (using WSDL/2.0 and SOAP/1.2) _mandatory_
    to implement.

    But, the W3C site now says (at http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/desc/):

    "Below are the targeted publication dates for the WSDL 2.0 drafts:

      Second Last Call
        June 2005
      Candidate Recommendation
        October 2005
      Proposed Recommendation
        Early 2006"

    PSI/1.0 fudged on this and standardized a SOAP/1.1 binding described in
    WSDL/1.1 (calling them 'defacto industry standards' - which is true, but
    they're still not interoperable).

    So the WIMS/1.0 Protocol spec will have to:

    (a) Use the above SOAP/1.1 fudge for normative bindings;
        <or>
    (b) Wait for the approval of WSDL/2.0 (now a working draft) by W3C;
        <or>
    (c) Use SOAP/1.2 for normative bindings
        and INFORMATIVE references to the WSDL/1.1 W3C Note
        and INFORMATIVE examples of WSDL/1.1 for the SOAP/1.1 binding.

    My apologies for not realizing this problem earlier.

    Cheers,
    - Ira

    Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
    Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
    PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
    phone: +1-906-494-2434
    email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

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