By nature, I do not like rules and regulations much. It may seem ironic then how come I have got involved with existing policy specification developments out there, both WS-Policy and SCA Policy.
Anyway, you may have noticed, the first version of SCA Specifications got released to the public with the intent of being submitted to OASIS. Here are my thoughts on why SCA Policy and WS-Policy can happily co-exist by design as one is used to abstract over the other [1] .
I claim that it is possible to use WS-Policy framework itself to define and compose profiles by using the referencing mechanisms in a clever way. However, WS-Policy is not the only framework out there for expressing constraints and capabilities. SCA Policy's delegating model suits nicely to utilize profiling on top of other frameworks that are used to express policies.
I do hope participants in the standardization process do not forget my wish list. I will certainly not be present in that process going forward.
[1]
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/6144
Note: I am tempted to write a new tool to allow me to post a blog to different repositories given the past couple of experiences, including this one. Posting a blog to here and to SAP's SDN at the same time is time consuming, but the pain has not reached the treshold so I can be lazy for a while.
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Great work.
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