Folks,
I like Ken's introduction of Goal to Fig. 10 with
linkage to Intent. That said, I still argue that we really need at
least two visual models versus a single model. One that is specific to
Consumers (& Mediators) and one that is specific to Providers. I do
not think we can combine the two because the types of Action are quite
different. Further, the notion of Events from the perspective of
Providers vs. Consumers is different.
From a Consumer's perspective, the Action the
consumer agent performs---corresponding to the Consumer's Intent associated
with a specific Goal---is sending a message to the provider agent (i.e.,
Service), which does not directly "cause" a RWE to occur, at least not in the
same manner that the Service's Action "causes" a RWE to occur. What
happens if the network is down and consumer agent messages with Intent that were
applied via sending an Action-oriented message to the Service cannot
get to their destination (endpoint)? Obviously, no RWE is going to occur
because the Service was never reached. We
so need to think about these kinds of boundary conditions.
Perhaps we can resolve this on today's call by
focusing on variations of Fig. 10. I'm hopeful!
Cheers...
- Jeff
