Target: sca-policy-1.1-spec-cd04.doc

Description:

The SCA Policy specification contains a small number of normative statements that are either themselves optional, or which relate to optional functionality.

These statements give a problem both with regard to testing and to the exit criteria for the specification.

The statements involved are as follows:

Optional statements:

POL40031 POL40033

POL80001 POL80002

Statements relating to optional function (in all cases, the function is redeployment, which is not a required capability for an SCA runtime)

POL40029 POL40030 POL40032

Proposal:

Remove the optional parts of POL80001 & POL80003

Downgrade all of the remaining listed statements to non-normative advisory text.

The implementation of these proposals is shown in wd041 of the Policy spec here:

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sca-policy/download.php/42854/sca-policy-1.1-spec-wd041.doc http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sca-policy/download.php/42855/sca-policy-1.1-spec-wd041.pdf

Yours, Mike

Dr Mike Edwards Mail Point 137, Hursley Park

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