[wg11] Follow the process for Part 28

[Martin Hardwick]

All,

STEP Tools has several issues with Part 28 including some that
are quite fundamental.

However, now is not a good time for us to raise these issues because
this is when the ideas and opinions of others should be heard.

We do not think the team should start the resolution process before
all the comments have been received because this will discourage others
by making them wonder if their comments are going to be considered.

We have confidence that a Part 28 will be defined for STEP and that it
will be similar to the solutions we are developing for AP-238 (STEP-NC)
because these solutions are making STEP programming an order of magnitude
easier.

What we hope is that the good ideas of others will make these solutions
even better and we do not want to cut them off by changing the agreed
process.

Martin Hardwick
President STEP Tools, Inc.


At 12:45 PM 5/20/2004 -0400, David Price wrote:

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>Heidi asked for any early comments on Part 28 to be raised on these exploders given it looks like the team won t have a meeting in Bath. So, here s a start. The big ones first.
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>In conversations on this exploder and in private, I ve heard comments that lead me to believe some portion of the Part 28 team now thinks that so much configurability in an ISO standard mapping from EXPRESS to XML Schema is not necessary.  I share in this view on the basis that a single, consistent mapping for ISO standard EXPRESS schemas is better than many different mappings developed for individual APs& at least for the same usage scenario such as data exchange. We spent a lot of energy in SC4 to get AP-interoperability that should not be thrown away.
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>Is there support for removing or vastly reducing and simplifying the ISO standard EXPRESS to XML Schema configuration capability in Part 28? For example, could we agree on an EXPRESS to XML schema mapping for each usage scenario (e.g. data exchange vs. SOAP) and standardize those instead?
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>Cheers,
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>David
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