DMTF Change Request

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 DMTF Change Request Number   [sysdevCR006655]

WIP-WSMAN-CR00004.001.htm

CR Owner Name, Email  [My Name, my.name@company.com]

Josh Cohen, joshco@microsoft.com  

Errata   [Yes/No]

No  

Short Description

Clarify Selector Matching

Spec, Document or Model(s) Being Changed   [Device Model]

wsman-baseline-00

Spec, Document or Model Version Incorporating the Change  [V2.9 Final]

wsman-interop-00

Filename(s) Incorporating the Change [Device_USB.mof]

n/a

Date Originated  [mm/dd/yyyy]

12/06/05

Date of Last Revision of the Change Request [mm/dd/yyyy]

12/21/05

Dependencies   [smwgCR00567,sysdevCR00555]

N/A

Terminology

The terminology used in this CR should conform to the "Rules for the structure and drafting of International Standards", 5th Edition, 2005 available at:

http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink.exe/fetch/2000/2122/3146825/4229629/4230450/4230456/ISO_IEC_Directives__Part_2__Rules_for_the_structure_and_drafting_of_International_Standards__2004__5th_edition___pdf_format_.pdf?nodeid=4230517&vernum=0

Particular attention shall be paid to Annex H which lays out guidelines for the expression of provisions.

Background/Rationale (Explanation of the background and reason(s) for the requested change, and supporting documentation):

Currently the specification makes statements which allow a service to ignore some of the passed selectors if they are considered to be superfluous.  This creates a condition where the service could erroneously return an instance based on some of the selectors rather than returning an error indicating that the resource specified by the full set of selectors does not exist.

Requested Change (Change information such as details before/after the change, readable/indented MOF, and/or references to "Uploaded" MOF and other documents if the changes are too lengthy to include inline):

Section(s): 2.8 Text (p21 top)

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If more than one Selector value is required, the entire set of Selectors is interpreted by the service in order to reference the targeted object. The service is free to examine as many Selectors as required and ignore those which are redundant once the instance has been identified.

Sections(s): 2.8 R2.8-3

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The service MUST examine all Selectors in a SelectorSet to identify a target resource.

The service SHOULD examine whatever Selectors are required to reference

the target, and MAY ignore any additional Selectors once the target has

been identified. In this sense, the set of Selectors is logically ANDed and

the service has the option to ignore any additional redundant Selectors. If

the set of Selectors is insufficient to reference a resource or contain invalid

names or values for the targeted resource, then a wsman:InvalidSelectors

fault SHOULD be returned to the client with the following detail codes:

Change History (Mandatory after submission to the TC, May be used by the WGs):

Version

Date 

Short description of changes

 0

12/06/05

Initial CR

 1

12/21/05

Update from discussion at f2f

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