Re: [nm-wg] immediate future of current schemas

[Loukik Kudarimoti <loukik.kudarimoti@dante.org.uk>]

Hello Mark,

> This was agreed by those in the call, which from a "we have implementations
> planned" point of view included Eric for piPEs, Jim Ferguson for Advisor,
> and me for the UK, and European efforts of EGEE-JRA4 and DANTE. In terms of
> groups we believe are planning to use the schemas, AMP, MonAlisa and SLAC
> were not represented on the call. 
> So, in summary the proposal was:
>
> 1. stabilise the current schemas soon, with suggestions for Document-Literal
> implementations (doc-literal allows messages to be validated against the
> schema, and provides easier interoperability between services)
> 2. then X months in future, we release the 'new' schemas
>
> ***** PLEASE SHOUT IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THIS DECISION, or you have
> questions! *****
>
>
>  
This is good to hear but there is a general feeling (fear) within the 
community that even after the 'new' schemas come in, they will keep 
changing (like what has been happening with the current schemas). The 
only way we can tackle this is by ensuring that later versions of the 
'new' schemas are backwards compatible. I feel that this is something 
the group has to keep in mind right from beginning.

Best regards,
Loukik.

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