Thanks for your input Ken. Today I didn't have time
to parse through your messages, hopefully I will
before Wednesday morning's RA meeting.
Danny
--- Ken Laskey <> wrote:
> I've taken responsibility for service description
> and will hopefully
> get to revising shortly. But in case that shortly
> slips, here are
> some key thoughts for advance discussion.
>
> - Description is very important both for the
> consumer and the
> provider. This includes abilities, protocols,
> formats, policies, ...
> and differences need to be resolved to establish an
> execution
> context. This is alluded to in the RM but not
> explored. I will
> probably expand on that here.
>
> - All interactions with a service must be based on
> informations
> contained in or referenced by the service
> description or by further
> information established during an interaction
> initiated solely on the
> basis of the service description. The consumer may
> know more (there
> is no way to guarantee a limit on knowledge) but SOA
> would say the
> additional information should not be used. If this
> additional
> information is critical (or just very useful), it
> should somehow be
> included in the service description.
>
> - The description must somewhere convey technical
> assumptions, i.e.
> the world is like this and that is why you can
> expect real world
> effects as described.
>
> - Is sufficiency of description that which would
> support automated
> use, assuming the contained information can be
> unambiguously
> included, understood, and used?
>
> Ken
>
>
>
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> Ken Laskey
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