[wsrp][interfaces] Summary May 23 call

Attendees:

    Rich Thompson: IBM

   Alejandro Abdelnur: Sun

   Alan Kropp: Epicentric

   Mark Cassidy: Netegrity

   Jeff Broberg: Silverstream

   Carsten Leue: IBM

   Yossi Tamari: SAP Portals

   Sasha Aickin: Plumtree

   Thomas Schaeck: IBM

   Michael Freedman: Oracle

Agenda:

1) Continue discussions from previous week:
a) Can instance creation be implicitly requested by the portal? 
If so

  how is this implicit request reflected in the protocol?

Summary: We never answered this question.  Time was spent explaining
the issue/scenario.  It was suggested that we try and use e-mail discussion
to complete.

b) Do we need to support cascading operations on instance handles? 
If so for which

  operations?

Summary:  We didn't have time to discuss.

c) Are instance handles scoped to the consumer that created them (the
portal).

Summary:  We briefly discussed and instance handles aren't scoped
to the consumer.
2) Get preliminary feedback on requirements document.

 
Summary:  Folks hadn't had enough time to look
at the document.  Major discussion was deferred to this week. Rich
asked a few questions regarding the entity that some of the requirements
related to registration pertained to.  It was clarified that these
requirements related to the specification vs. either the portal or portlet
service.  Rich suggested that for such things the requirements be
rewritten in the form "The specification must/may".  Mike agreed to
rework the document accordingly.
3) Discuss how we should proceed -- on this the issue is there are many
topics we can move onto -- what should we address next?? -- are there ways
to accelerate our progress?
Summary:  We decided to move away from the Socratic
method currently being used to one where a few people proposed a set of
[concrete] requirements that we could comment on.  Sasha Aickins and
Carsten Leue volunteered to help me put such requirements together. 
In addition we decided Carsten should begin drafting a strawman specification
to meet these requirements while the requirements are still under discussion
so that we may have both available for the end of June face to face meeting.