[omniORB] Re: Corba firewall traversal specification

[Jonathan Biggar]

Harri Pasanen wrote:
> On Monday 30 January 2006 18:38, Jonathan Biggar wrote:
> 
>>Last I heard the Firewall Traversal spec failed to progress
>>to a final standard at the OMG anyway.
>>
> 
> 
> I'm not too familiar with OMG standardization procedure, but 
> why would it then apper in final adopted specifications: 
> http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ptc/2004-03-01  ?
> Or does it still need to progress from adopted specification 
> to a final standard?

Correct.  Final adopted means that it has been voted to be a standard, 
but there's a "finalization" process from there that must complete 
before it can become a published standard.  This requires a special task 
force to issue a final report on the proposed standard and for there to 
be interoperable implementations available.

A proposed standard can remain in "finalization" state for only so long, 
otherwise it is dropped.

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Jon Biggar
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