Changes in WS-Policy Last Call Drafts

A list of substantive changes since the WS-Policy Member Submission is below:

Web Services Policy Framework

1. Defined WS-Policy 1.5 Framework and Attachment XML Namespace Name versioning policy (see 2.3 XML Namespaces).
2. Added support for the xml:id attribute (see 4.2 Policy Identification).
3. Added a conformance section – 6. Conformance.
4. Replaced URI with IRI.
5. Enhanced 5. Security Considerations (new content is from the Security Considerations Section in the Understanding WS-Policy MSDN white paper).
6. Clarified that an unrecognized element within a policy expression MUST be an assertion (see 2.2 Extensibility).
7. Clarified that policy assertion parameters are opaque to framework processing (see 4.3.2 Policy Assertion Nesting).
8. Added element extensibility (via {Any}) to the PolicyReference element (see 4.3.4 Policy References).
9. Added a new feature: 4.4 Ignorable Policy Assertions.
10. Defined an XML Media Type to describe Web Service Policy documents serialized as XML in Appendix A. The application/wspolicy+xml Media Type.

Web Services Policy Attachment

1. Defined WS-Policy 1.5 Framework and Attachment XML Namespace Name versioning policy (see 2.2 XML Namespaces).
2. Added a conformance section – 8. Conformance.
3. Replaced URI with IRI.
4. Added a new section - 5. WS-Policy Attachment for WSDL 2.0 - that describes a mechanism for associating policy expressions with Web service constructs in WSDL 2.0.
5. Added a new domain expression: 3.4.1 URI Domain Expression.