RE: A DBA perspective.

[Scott Hinkelman <srh@us.ibm.com>]

I tried to make this point in Tokyo with insufficient clarity. With all of
the good work done,
the focus has been on the Information model as a unit, but
the *only thing of importance* is specifying the Interface in context of
that information model.

Does anyone know if there been any proof-of-concept specifically of the
OASIS 1.1 spec?

Scott Hinkelman, Senior Software Engineer
XML Industry Enablement
IBM e-business Standards Strategy
512-823-8097 (TL 793-8097) (Cell: 512-940-0519)
srh@us.ibm.com, Fax: 512-838-1074



David RR Webber <Gnosis_@compuserve.com>@compuserve.com> on 01/10/2001
11:46:26 AM

To:   Bob Sutor <rss@sutor.com>
cc:   ebxml-regrep@lists.ebxml.org
Subject:  RE: A DBA perspective.



Message text written by Bob Sutor
>
If you have an API, why do you want to say anything about
how it might be implemented beneath the covers?

Bob Sutor
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Bob,

This is just a reflection of the work we seem to have done
as a group so far.

It suddenly occurred to me - I guess becuase of the sense
that we need to ensure that everything is absolutely exactly
correct - we've been getting down into a lot of details lately.

This in part has been triggered by the work OASIS has
done to date - and of course they have had longer to
work on it - so details will out!

Anyway - its a good sanity check to realize that
sometimes it pays to 'let go' of the lowlevel stuff and focus
higher up in the API functionality.

Ain't easy for a bunch of techie engineers for whom
'show me the code' is a mantra!

Appreciate the thought.

Thanks, DW.