XML Protocol Working Group Charter
The mission of the XML Protocol Working Group, part of the Web Services Activity, is to maintain and develop as needed the SOAP Version 1.2 specifications and their extensions.
| End date | 31 December 2007 |
|---|---|
| Confidentiality | Proceedings are public |
| Initial Chairs | Chris Ferris |
| Initial Team Contacts (FTE %: 25) |
Yves Lafon |
| Usual Meeting Schedule | Teleconferences: Weekly Face-to-face: No ftf meetings |
Scope
The Working Group is responsible for updating errata documents and publishing new editions of the SOAP 1.2, XML-binary Optimized Packaging (XOP), and SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) W3C Recommendations, incorporating published errata.
In addition to the maintenance effort, the XML Protocol Working Group is chartered to work on SOAP Version 1.2 extensions. The Group will produce a Web Services Policy (WS Policy) assertion for MTOM, using the W3C Member submission MTOM Serialization Policy Assertion (WS-MTOMPolicy), and will continue the work the SOAP One way MEP, a Message Exchange Pattern describing one-way SOAP messaging.
Success Criteria
The XML Protocol Working Group is expected to demonstrate interoperable implementations during the Call for Implementations step.
Deliverables
The top priority deliverables of the Working Group are to produce any revisions necessary for the maintenance of these W3C Recommendations:
- SOAP Version 1.2 Part 0: Primer
- SOAP Version 1.2 Part 1: Messaging Framework
- SOAP Version 1.2 Part 2: Adjuncts
- SOAP Version 1.2 Specification Assertions and Test Collection
- XML-binary Optimized Packaging
- SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism
- Resource Representation SOAP Header Block
The Group also intends to produce the following documents:
- A Web Services Policy (WS Policy) assertion for SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) (REC).
- SOAP 1.2 Part 3: One-Way MEP (NOTE).
The Group will also continue the maintenance of the following new documents:
- XOP Inclusion Mechanism - Frequently Asked Questions (NOTE)
- Describing Media Content of Binary Data in XML (NOTE)
Milestones
Only new work is presented here, maintenance work will be done depending on issues received.
| Note: The group will document significant changes from this initial schedule on the group home page. | ||||||
| Specification | FPWD | LC | WGNOTE | CR | PR | Rec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WS-MTOMPolicy | June 2007 | July 2007 | September 2007 | December 2007 | January 2008 | |
| One-Way MEP | (published) | May 2007 | June 2007 | |||
Timeline View Summary
- May 2007: Working Group rechartering.
- May 2007: Publish Last Call Working Draft of the One-Way MEP
- June 2007: Final WG Note of the One-Way MEP.
- June 2007: Publish First Public Working Draft of the MTOM Policy Assertion
- July 2007: Publish Last Call Working Draft of the MTOM Policy Assertion
- September 2007: Publish Candidate Recommendation of the MTOM Policy Assertion
- December 2007: Publish Proposed Recommendation of the MTOM Policy Assertion
- January 2008: Publish Recommendation of the MTOM Policy Assertion
Dependencies
W3C Groups
XML and XML derived activities have become a strategic technology in W3C and elsewhere. Each deliverable of any Working Group must satisfy the dependencies from other W3C Working Groups before it can advance to Candidate Recommendation.
- Web Services Coordination Group
- The XML Protocol Working Group will manage dependencies with other groups in the Web Services Activity through the Web Services Coordination Group.
External Groups
The XML Protocol Working Group should liaise with at least the following groups outside W3C:
- The Internet Engineering Task Force
- The XML Protocol WG will liaise with the IETF to discuss all transport protocol issues that are relevant for XML Protocol. For issues that are not clearly in the realm of an existing IETF WG, the IETF/W3C coordination call should be used as the discussion forum.
- Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
- OASIS is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards.
- Web Services Interoperability Organization
- The Web Services Interoperability Organization is an open industry effort chartered to promote Web Services interoperability across platforms, applications, and programming languages through the development of profiles, any one of which could be relevant.