Issue - 11 Your opinion requested

At the conference call this morning, I presented 
issue 11 as it has progressed so far.  The current state is that there are 
2 proposals on the table, both of which are equivalent in terms of what they 
accomplish, but we don't need both of them.  The desire is that we get some 
feedback from the TC as to which avenue to pursue, so that we can flush out one 
of them, and present it to the TC for a vote.  Links to the issues are 
below.  If you have any opinon at all, please respond to this mail with AT 
LEAST +A/-A +B/-B so we can gauge reactions to the proposals.  If you want 
to share reasons for your opinion, that is welcome, too.  Note that you 
should take these proposals as partially-baked.  We plan to refine the 
"winning" proposal into one that is spec-worthy.

 

On the call and in email since the summaries were 
posted, there has been some discussion.  I have linked the email point 
here, and I hope that those who expressed support for either option (I believe 
it was just Yaron, but I could be wrong) will repeat them in email for 
posterity.  Unfortunately, Chris Keller was not on the call at the time of 
discussion, and I was unable to present his proposal with the clarity that he 
would have, so the discussion may have been skewed in favor of my 
proposal.  If that occurred, it was certainly not my intention to bias the 
discussion.

 

The hope is that we will get a sense of direction by the next conference 
call, and failing that, at the September face to face.  Putting the issue 
to a Kavi ballot for a sense of direction was also raised (by Monica Martin?), 
since that would force those who cared to state their opinion.

 

Issue 
presentation and Proposal A: Author Danny van der Rijn: Add BPEL 
elements

Tony 
Andrew's "+A" mail

 

Proposal 
B: Author Chris Keller: Add XPath Functions