OASIS Members Agree to Advance Reliable Messaging Spec
May 31, 2005
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Members of the OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) consortium agreed to advance development of the WS-ReliableMessaging and WS-RM Policy specifications within the OASIS open standards process. The new OASIS Web Services Reliable Exchange (WS-RX) Technical Committee will broaden development of the specifications that comprise both protocol and policy assertions for reliable message exchange.
"Reliable messaging is key to the future growth of business-to-business Web services," said Charles Abrams, research director for Gartner Inc. "The need for secure and verifiable transactions among trading partners is paramount, for both narrow supply chains and broad industry groupings. Until now, there have been two duplicative efforts, WS-Reliability, an OASIS standard, and WSRM, a major vendor-backed specification effort ... Now that both efforts are under the auspices of OASIS, with major vendor support from both WS-Reliability and WSRM, end user needs should be better served. Eventual reconciliation of both efforts under the administration of OASIS ... will measurably progress advanced Web service utilization."
Authors of the WS-ReliableMessaging v1.0 and WS-RM Policy v1.0 specifications, BEA Systems, IBM, Microsoft and TIBCO Software, plan to submit their work to the OASIS WS-RX Technical Committee at its first meeting. Changes to these documents, as well as other contributions, will be considered and evaluated based on technical merit, business requirements of users, and the committee's charter.
"The standardization of the WS-ReliableMessaging specification in OASIS is an important initiative," said Paul Fremantle of IBM, proposed co-chair of the OASIS WS-RX Technical Committee. "We believe there is strong demand in the marketplace for reliable Web services interactions, and our work will be key for organizations as they start to implement Web services for secure reliable business-to-business communications. For example, our work will allow businesses to exchange messages, such as purchase order entries, with the assurance of reliable delivery in an open and interoperable way."
To date, more than 25 organizations planned to join the OASIS WS-RX Technical Committee. Participation in the group remains open to all companies, non-profits and individuals. The committee seeks input from vendors of Web services products, software architects, and end users implementing solutions that require interoperable reliable messaging.
The OASIS WS-RX Technical Committee will operate under the Royalty Free on RAND Terms Mode defined by the OASIS Intellectual Property Rights Policy. Archives of the committee's work will be accessible to both members and non-members, and OASIS will host an open mail list for public comment.
Source: OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards).