FW: Call for Review: XML Protocol Activity Proposal

[Marc Breissinger <marcb@webmethods.com>]

Looks like W3C has made their protocol efforts official.  We'll need to
figure out how to approach this effort.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Lapp [mailto:jlapp@webmethods.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 12:34 AM
To: octo@webmethods.com
Subject: Fwd: Call for Review: XML Protocol Activity Proposal


>Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:32:47 -0700
>From: Janet Daly <janet@w3.org>
>To: w3c-ac-members@w3.org
>CC: ph@w3.org, ylafon@w3.org, frystyk@microsoft.com, fallside@us.ibm.com
>Subject: Call for Review: XML Protocol Activity Proposal
>
>
>Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
>
>This serves as a Call for Review of a proposal for the XML Protocol
>Activity, explained in detail in the briefing package at:
>
>	http://www.w3.org/2000/07/01-XML-protocol-BP.html
>
>The proposal and call for review is in compliance with section 3.1.1  of
>the W3C Process Document, at:
>
>http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/Process-19991111/activities.html
#ActivityCreation
>
>Please review the briefing package and return your comments according to
>the procedure below.
>
>If you have any questions or need further information, please contact
>Yves Lafon, proposed XML Protocol Activity Lead. His email address is
>
>	ylafon@w3.org
>
>
>for Tim-Berners Lee, Director;
>
>Yves Lafon, proposed XML Protocol Activity Lead
>ylafon@w3.org, +33.(0)4.92.38.79.43
>Janet Daly, Head of Communications
>janet@w3.org, +1 617 253 5884
>
>--------------
>
>Procedure
>
>   1. Read the full Briefing Package:
>      http://www.w3.org/2000/07/01-XML-protocol-BP.html
>
>   2. Before 24:00 GMT 18 August 2000, fill out the form below, and
>      send to
>
>	xml-protocol-review@w3.org
>
>   3. The W3C Director will announce his decision by 31 August 2000.
>
>Your response will be held in confidence by the W3C Team. If you would
>like to share your comments with other Members, please use
>w3c-ac-forum@w3.org
>
>>From the Briefing Package Executive Summary
>
>With the increasing popularity and use of XML, a number of XML protocols
>have emerged for building distributed applications including e-commerce,
>business logic, workflow management, etc. Although the scope and feature
>set of these protocols vary greatly, there is a trend towards a common
>core set of functionalities which most of them provide.
>
>Recently W3C has organized meetings at XTech 2000 and WWW9 on the topic
>of XML protocols, resulting in significant community support for
>creating a W3C Activity which defines this core set of functionalities.
>
>The purpose of the W3C XML Protocol Activity is to define a protocol
>framework that promotes interoperability and decentralized extensibility
>on the Web. The proposed Activity consists of an XML Protocol Core
>(XML PC) Working Group with the charter to define a lightweight and
>simple framework consisting of two parts:
>
>     1. An envelope for encapsulating XML data to be transferred
>	in a lightweight manner that allows for distributed
>	extensibility and evolvability as well as intermediaries.
>

>     2. A mechanism for serializing data representing non-syntactic
>	data models such as object graphs and directed labeled graphs.
>
>In order to focus the work, a list of related but non-essential features
>has been defined explicitly as out of scope. This list includes features
>like
>
>     Directly handling binary data
>     Compact encodings and compression issues
>     Explicit transport services
>     Explicit application semantics
>     Metadata description of services
>
>It is proposed that the all technical Working Group discussions are to
>take place on the public <xml-dist-app@w3.org> mailing list.
>
>It is proposed that the XML PC Working Group takes the recent SOAP/1.1
>submission as a starting point, although it is authorized to make
>incompatible changes if there are solid technical reasons for doing so.
>
>---------------------------
>FORM BEGINS
>
>I, ____________________ ,
>
>W3C Advisory Committee Representative of
>
>[name of Member organization]
>
>available via electronic mail at:
>
>[ac representative email address]
>
>having read Briefing Package for the XML Protocol Activity hereby cast a
>ballot:
>
>( ) My organization agrees that W3C should proceed as proposed.
>
>   [ ] We intend to participate, should the interest group be formed
>        as proposed. (Please make a special note if you are
>        willing to volunteer for the co-chair or editor positions.)
>
>   [ ] We suggest the following (non-critical) modifications
>        to the proposal: ____
>
>
>( ) My organization requests the following critical changes.
>    The Activity should not be started without these changes.
>
>   [ ] We intend to participate, should the interest group be formed
>        as we request.
>
>( ) My organization requests that W3C not deploy resources on this
>    Activity at all.
>
>Intellectual Property Rights (please choose one)
>
>    ( ) We do not have intellectual property rights relating
>        to XML protocols
>
>    ( ) We have disclosed our IPR following the procedure at
>        http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/Process-19991111/#ipr
>
>
>FORM ENDS
>
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