(1) This is a Last Call Working Draft transition announcement for the following six Recommendation Track specifications:
(2) Document Titles and URIs
Web Services Enumeration
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-enumeration-20100330/
Web Services Event Descriptions
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-event-descriptions-20100330/
Web Services Eventing
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-eventing-20100330/
Web Services Fragment
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-fragment-20100330/
Web Services Metadata Exchange
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-metadata-exchange-20100330/
Web Services Transfer
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-transfer-20100330/
(3) Instructions for providing feedback
If you wish to make comments regarding these specifications please send them to public-ws-resource-access-comments@w3.org which is an email list publicly archived at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-resource-access-comments/
(4) Review end date
The last Call period for these documents ends on May 11, 2010
(5) A reference to the group's decision to make this transition
The Web Services Resource Access Working Group made the decision for this transition at its teleconference on March 16, 2010 see http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/10/03/2010-03-16.html#item04
(6) Evidence that the document satisfies group's requirements. Include a link to requirements
The Web Services Resource Access Working Group believes that these specifications satisfy the requirements of the working group's charter at http://www.w3.org/2008/11/ws-ra-charter.html
(7) The names of groups with dependencies, explicitly inviting review from them.
The following groups are known or suspected to have dependancies on one or more of these specifications:
DMTF Web Services for Management Management http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wsman/
OASIS Web Services Discovery and Web Services Devices Profile http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ws-dd
OASIS Identity Metasystem Interoperability http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=imi
OASIS Web Services Federation http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsfed
The Web Services Resource Access Working Group requests review from each of these working groups. The chairs and secretaries of the working group listed have been copied on the distribution list of this transition announcement as well as other individuals known to have expressed prior interest.
(8) Report of any Formal Objections
The Working Group received one Formal Objection during the preparation of these specifications
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-resource-access/2009Jun/0014.html
The technical content of this Formal Objection was subsequently raised as a new issue http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7015 and re-examined.
It was decided by the working group on 2009-10-27 on a 5:3 vote to close this issue with no action see http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/9/10/2009-10-27.html#item08
Another related issue was raised as http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7911 and was closed without action by a consensus decision on 2009-12-01 see http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/9/12/2009-12-01.html#item04
(9) Patent Disclosure Page Link can be found at http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/43088/status
This Transition Announcement has been prepared according to the guidelines concerning such announcements at http://www.w3.org/2005/08/online_xslt/xslt?xmlfile=http://www.w3.org/2005/08/01-transitions.html&xslfile=http://www.w3.org/2005/08/transitions.xsl&docstatus=lc-wd-tr#trans-annc
Regards
Bob Freund,
chair W3C Web Services Resource Access Working Group
email: Bob.Freund@hitachisoftware.com