Please also include my suggestion of "entity (human or machine)" for
additional choices (I'm sure you sent this before you read my e-mail on
that).
Thanks,
Joe
Joseph Chiusano
Booz Allen Hamilton
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory A. Kohring [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 2:35 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [soa-rm] Definition of "Service Consumer"
>
>
> Here is a summary of yesterdays proposals for defining the
> term "Service Consumer":
>
> 1) Software that invokes an instance,
>
> 2) Software that uses a service instance,
>
> 3) An agent that wishes to interact with a service,
>
> 4) An agent that interacts with a service in order to
> achieve a goal,
>
> 5) An entity that binds with a service is playing the
> role of service consumer,
>
> where the suggested definition of "agent" was:
>
> 1) An Agent is a software program acting on behalf of an owner.
>
> (By substituting this definition in some of the above
> suggestions you can come up with yet more definitions of
> service consumer.)
>
>
> Now, just out of curiosity, how do we proceed from here?
> Do we vote on one of the suggested definitions? (This implies
> we should vote on the definitions of all the terms to be used
> in the final document.) Or do we leave it up to the editors
> to pick the definition which best fits the style of writing
> being used within the final document?
>
>
> -- Greg
>
>
>
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> G.A. Kohring
> C&C Research Laboratories, NEC Europe Ltd.
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