Re: [soa-rm-ra] reaching closure on Action

[Ken Laskey <klaskey@mitre.org>]

So the singular Action is what is described in the Action Model but the use of that Action is a Joint Action because it requires both someone whose intent it is to have the RWE occur and the service to initiate whatever activity is necessary to make the RWE occur. �That I can buy.

Ken

On Jun 9, 2008, at 6:01 PM, Jeffrey A. Estefan wrote:

Ken,

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I said Joint Action, not Communicative Action.� Remember the former was defined as "the application of intent by two or more participants (or agents) in order to realize a Real World Effect."� So clearly, there is relevance to RWE.

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I'm less enamored with the term Communicative Action and I think is causing us heartburn.� I can see how a consumer's request to initiate a permissible service action would be embodied in the message that gets communicated via interaction (or communication or message exchange or whatever we call it).� It's the word "action" appended to "communication" that seems to be giving us some pain.

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Cheers!

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�- Jeff

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