RE: [Policy] RE: PCELS position

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <[e-mail]>]

W.r.t.
>  Is PCIMe considered so complete, that it is beyond modification, if such 
>  modification could preserve its intent while also adhering to the desires 
> of maintaining consistency with PCIM and PCLS? 
 
PCIMe is at Proposed Standard. If, for example because of this effort to try and MAP it onto LDAP, we
find that we did some things in PCIMe that we should not have done, then, with WG consensus,
we can make incompatible changes to PCIMe and then recycle at Proposed Standard.
That is part of the normal standars track process. That is, we get something to PS, then we start
using/implementing (the "using" part is reusing PCIMe definitions in otehr CIM docs (like the
other docs we did in Policy, and like the IPsec work, the "implementing" is sort of mapping onto for 
example LDAP I think)... and if we find major issues, then we fix and recycle at PS. If we do not
find major issues, we may advance to DS.
 
Hope this helps.
Bert