RE: NEW ISSUE: What is a logical address?

This definition has come a long way from WS-Addressing's humble origins
where it was only suppose to remove the need for SOAPAction in HTTP Headers
i.e. transport independence. 

It is becoming to look a lot like a XML serialized version of an object
pointer. 

+1 on Anish's proposal.

Vikas


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Subject: Re: NEW ISSUE: What is a logical address?


Ah, thanks Paul.  I actually did look for a definition of "endpoint",
only searching on the word alone seemed to yield a lot of false
positives.  8-)

FWIW, I'm not sure what role "entity, processor" serve in that
definition, since both are specific kinds of resources.  Would it not
just be more succinct to remove them and say;

"A Web service endpoint is a (referenceable) resource to which Web
service messages can be addressed. Endpoint references convey the
information needed to address a Web service endpoint."

But +1 on Anish's proposal.

Mark.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 07:49:51AM -0000, paul.downey@bt.com wrote:
> And our spec says:
>  
> """ A Web service endpoint is a (referenceable) entity, processor, or
resource to which Web service messages can be addressed. Endpoint references
convey the information needed to address a Web service endpoint. """
>  
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ws-addr-core-20050215/
>  
> 
> 	-----Original Message----- 
> 	From: public-ws-addressing-request@w3.org on behalf of Mark Baker 
> 	Sent: Tue 22/02/2005 03:45 
> 	To: public-ws-addressing@w3.org 
> 	Cc: 
> 	Subject: Re: NEW ISSUE: What is a logical address?
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> 
> 	Anish,
> 	
> 	This sounds encouraging, but I'm unclear on what it would mean to
say
> 	that the URI identifies the *endpoint*.  Would this prevent it from
> 	identifying application layer resources like, say, a customer
> 	account, a business agreement, or an invoice?
> 	
> 	Thanks.
> 	
> 	Mark.
> 	
> 	On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:29:54AM -0800, Anish Karmarkar wrote:
> 	> with:
> 	>  [address] : URI (mandatory)
> 	>     An address URI that identifies the service endpoint and may be
> 	>     deferenceable.
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