I like the term publication - fits in well with the publish-find-bind, and
captures the essence of what is being done by the service provider.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Brooks [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 9:49 PM
To: Duane Nickull; Francis McCabe
Cc: Ken Laskey; Chiusano Joseph; ;
Subject: Re: [soa-rm] Architectural Scope of Reference Model
I have held off commenting on the term advertising simply because I
am biased, due to my long involvement with the practice of
advertising as an art director and designer. I convinced myself that
this different context in some way disqualified my understanding of
the term due to my involvement in the commercial context. However,
having thought about it more, I think I should go ahead and say I
have two point in relation to this term.
1. The definition of Advertising as a commercial practice as I
understood it has always been: Communication of messages with the
intent of obtaining favorable consideration for the party seeking
such consideration.
2. I think the term Publication is more accurate since that the
Service Provider is actually doing: providing public information
about the availability of the service.
Ciao,
Rex
At 2:27 PM -0700 4/11/05, Duane Nickull wrote:
>Francis:
>
>Discovery is described in the WSA from W3C in section 2.3.3.1 very well.
>
>"There are various means by which discovery can be performed.
>Various things - human end users or agents - may initiate discovery.
>Requester entities may find service descriptions during development
>for static binding, or during execution for dynamic binding. For
>statically bound requester agents, using discovery is optional, as
>the service description might be obtained in other ways, such as
>being sent directly from the provider entity to the requester
>entity, developed collaboratively, or provided by a third party,
>such as a standards body."
>
>For something to be discovered, it must first be in a format that
>allows discovery to happen. That is the act of advertising it.
>Discovery happens ONLY after something is available to be discovered.
>
>Duane
>
>Francis McCabe wrote:
>
>>Is discovery of the essence or advertising? If I discover how to
>>use your service by some kind of reverse engineering -- you did not
>>advertise it but I discovered it -- and can therefore use it!
>>Frank
>
>
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