From: "McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>
To: <netconf@psg.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 9:53 AM
Subject: NetConf over SOAP normative reference issue
Hi,
[Bert Wijnen asked me to pass on this comment.]
The latest NetConf over SOAP <draft-ietf-netconf-soap-04.txt>
has a serious problem for advancement on the IETF "standards
track", to whit, these two normative references:
[3] Box, D., Ehnebuske, D., Kakivaya, G., Layman, A., Mendelsohn,
N., Nielsen, H., Thatte, S. and D. Winer, "Simple Object Access
Protocol (SOAP) 1.1", W3C Note NOTE-SOAP-20000508, May 2000,
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-SOAP-20000508>.
[16] O'Tuathail, E. and M. Rose, "Using the Simple Object Access
Protocol (SOAP) in Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP)",
RFC 3288, June 2002, <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3288.txt>.
SOAP/1.1 is a W3C Note. It will never advance on the W3C "standards
track". In fact, W3C has approved SOAP/1.2 as a final Recommendation.
RFC 3288 was illegitimately published with the same normative
reference dependency without a formal IESG variance.
We've encountered this problem in our IEEE/ISTO Printer Working Group
(PWG) work on management of multifunction devices using Web services.
Please don't use SOAP/1.1 (or WSDL/1.1) in NetConf solutions. This
perpetuates non-interoperability and breaks IETF process rules.
Cheers,
- Ira, co-editor of PWG WIMS (Web-based Imaging System Mgmt Service)
ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/wims/wd/wd-wims10-20050303.pdf
Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221 Grand Marais, MI 49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com
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