Submission request to W3C (W3C Team Comment)
We, W3C Member(s) IBM and Microsoft hereby submit to the Consortium the following specification, comprising the following document(s) attached hereto:
which is referred to as "the Submission". We request the Submission be known as the WS-MTOMPolicy Submission.
This submission describes a domain-specific policy assertion that indicates endpoint support of the optimized MIME multipart/related serialization of SOAP messages defined in section 3 of the SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism [MTOM] specification. This policy assertion can be specified within a policy alternative as defined in WS-Policy Framework [WS-Policy] and attached to a WSDL description as defined in WS-PolicyAttachment [WS-PolicyAttachment].
IBM hereby grants to the W3C a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any IBM copyrights on this contribution, to copy, publish and distribute the contribution under the W3C document licenses.
Additionally, should the Submission be used as a contribution towards a W3C Activity, IBM grants a right and license of the same scope to any derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on, or incorporating all or part of, the contribution. IBM further agrees that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.
Microsoft hereby grants to the W3C a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any Microsoft copyrights on this contribution, to copy, publish and distribute the contribution under the W3C document licenses.
Additionally, should the Submission be used as a contribution towards a W3C Activity, Microsoft grants a right and license of the same scope to any derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on, or incorporating all or part of, the contribution. Microsoft further agrees that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.
The Submission request or Submission refers to the following trade and service marks (registered or not): none.
The organization I represent on the W3C Advisory Committee agrees to offer licenses according to the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements described in section 5 of the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy for any portion of the Submission that is subsequently incorporated in a W3C Recommendation.
The organization I represent on the W3C Advisory Committee agrees to offer licenses according to the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements described in section 5 of the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy for any portion of the Submission that is subsequently incorporated in a W3C Recommendation.
We suggest that the Consortium make this submission available for consideration by members or other third parties. We further suggest that the W3C consider this submission as the basis for a W3C Recommendation or Working Group Note from the XML Protocol Working Group if in the future WS-MTOMPolicy is within the scope of the XMLP WG charter.
To help with this work, we expect to be able to provide assistance as needed to the Consortium.
Inquiries from the public or press about this Submission should be directed to: Ron Favali(IBM) or Thom Robbins(Microsoft).
this 16th day of November, 2006,
Steve Holbrook (IBM) and Kyle Young (Microsoft).