Approving WSRP v2 as an OASIS standard

As a result of a vote of the WSRP Technical Committee
that closed on February 8, 2008, and is recorded in the Kavi system at
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/wsrp/ballot.php?id=1415,
the chair hereby submits the Web Services for Remote Portlet v2.0 Specification
(approved in a ballot recorded at http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/wsrp/ballot.php?id=1411)
for consideration as an OASIS Standard. 

In accordance with the process stipulated in the OASIS
Technical Committee Process, the TC has published: 

1.        A
formal specification that is a valid member of its type

2.        Appropriate
documentation for the specification

3.        A
clear English-language summary of the specification

(a) This material, in the currently-recommended OASIS format,
is available on the TC web site. The specification is composed of the following
components: 

Web Services for Remote Portlets v2 Specification; Published:
28 January 2008, Dated: 28 January 2008: 

HTML - http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-spec.html

PDF - http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-spec.pdf

WSRP v2 XML Schema: 

XSD - http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-types.xsd

WSRP v2 WSDL: 

Interfaces - http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-interfaces.wsdl

Bindings - http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-bindings.wsdl
(b) The editable version of the specification document
is the HTML version.

(c) The HTML, schema and wsdl files have all been validated
as well-formed documents of their type.

(d) Here is an English-language summary of this application:

WSRP version 2 extends the version 1 definitions
to support more advanced use cases; namely: 

Coordination between components 

Ability to move customized portlets across registration
and machine boundaries

Mechanism for describing protocol extensions

Support for leasing of resources

In-band means of getting resources

Support for the CCPP protocol (device characteristics)

WSRP version 2 consists of the following documents. 

WSRP version 2 Specification (Dated: 28 January 2008).

This document describes the web service interface that is exposed by all
instances of compliant Producers as well as the semantics required both
of the service and its Consumers.   [HTML
(714 KB)   /   PDF
(998 KB)] 

WSRP version 2 WSDL. These documents details of
each of the operations and XML messages exchanged by compliant services.
WSRP version 2 schema, Dated: 28 January 2008:
[ XSD
(67 KB)] 

WSRP version 2 portTypes, Dated: 28 January 2008:
[ WSDL
(36 KB)] 

WSRP version 2 bindings, Dated: 28 January 2008:
[ WSDL
(36 KB)] 

(e) The specification notes a number of standards developed
at OASIS and other organizations that are leveraged by WSRP.

(f) Certifications of Use: 

The chair is pleased to report that four OASIS organizational members have
provided attestations with respect to successfully using WSRP v2, as required
by the OASIS TC Process (emails with these attestations are captured in
the TC's email archive with the relevant links provided below). In addition,
the chair is also pleased to report that there are at least four known
implementations of the WSRP v2 Committee Specification, each of which emanates
from vendor organizations: 

BEA - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrp/200801/msg00006.html

IBM - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrp/200801/msg00013.html

Oracle - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrp/200801/msg00012.html

Vignette - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrp/200801/msg00014.html

(g) Public comments and resolutions: 

The WSRP v2 Committee Specification (http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-spec-cd-05.html
approved via http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/wsrp/ballot.php?id=1319)
was submitted for public comment to the OASIS and XML-Dev memberships (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrp/200710/msg00020.html)
on 31 October 2007. Comments and their resolution were captured on a wiki
page which, a snapshot of which has been captured in http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/wsrp/download.php/27186/WSRP_v2_PR_Comments.zip.

(h) Committee Specification 

The specification was approved as a Committee Specification in a ballot
(http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/wsrp/ballot.php?id=1411)
which closed on 28 January 2008. This ballot had one non-vote and two abstains
with the rest voting for approval. The abstains both commented on having
not received an IPR statement from WebCollage (which had issued such a
statement relative to WSRP v1). The TC has attempted to acquire such a
statement from WebCollage, but had little leverage as WebCollage had not
been involved in the effort to define WSRP v2 and was non-responsive to
the Technical Committee's requests. 

(i) History of previous OASIS standardization attempts

There have been no past attempts to submit WSRP v2 for OASIS standardization.

(j) Publicly visible comments archive 

The WSRP TC committee and comment archives can be found at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrp/
and http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wsrp-comment/
respectively. 

(k) There have been no minority reports received from Committee
members nor statements that the specification has underlying technical
issues or non-reviewed substantive changes.

Rich Thompson

OASIS WSRP TC Chair

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center / Hawthorne, NY