Re: Self-describing Messages wrt MEPs

So we'd pre-define a second [destination] URI to accompany the  
existing anonymous URI:

http://www.w3.org/@@@@/@@/addressing/null

Where

<wsa:ReplyTo>
   <wsa:Address>http://www.w3.org/@@@@/@@/addressing/null<wsa:Address>
</wsa:ReplyTo>

and

<wsa:FaultTo>
   <wsa:Address>http://www.w3.org/@@@@/@@/addressing/null<wsa:Address>
</wsa:FaultTo>

are equivalent to

1>/dev/null and 2>/dev/null for the Unix minded among us ?

What would be the semantics of such a wsa:ReplyTo though, would it  
mean "never send me a reply to this message" or "don't use any  
available back channel to send me a reply, but you can reply in other  
ways" ? In other words is it scoped to the SOAP MEP, the WSDL MEP or  
some higher level 'conversation' ?

Marc.


On Jun 22, 2005, at 5:08 PM, David Orchard wrote:

> Almost like wsa:nil?
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> Dave
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> From: Rogers, Tony [mailto:Tony.Rogers@ca.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 5:49 PM
> To: David Orchard; public-ws-addressing@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Self-describing Messages wrt MEPs
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> Even so, I do like this - explicitly calling out that no reply is  
> expected is a good thing.
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> It does amuse me, though, to have a ReplyTo on a message that isn't  
> expecting a reply. Maybe that's just my warped sense of humour :-)
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> Tony Rogers
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> From: public-ws-addressing-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ws- 
> addressing-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of David Orchard
> Sent: Wednesday, 22 June 2005 9:59
> To: public-ws-addressing@w3.org
> Subject: Self-describing Messages wrt MEPs
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> I was thinking about Paco's desire for ReplyTo to have a desire for  
> a distinguished attribute to indicate that no response is  
> expected.  Effectively, I think that he wants messages to be self- 
> describing wrt MEPs.
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> A one-way MEP over HTTP would be no-response for ReplyTo and FaultTo.
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> A robust-in-only MEP over HTTP would be no-response for ReplyTo and  
> anonymous FaultTo.
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> A request-response MEP over HTTP would be anonymous ReplyTo and  
> anonymous FaultTo.
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> From an intermediary's perspective, it could look at the ReplyTo  
> and FaultTo to determine the MEP.
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> It seems worth calling out, that making messages self-describing  
> from an MEP perspective hasn't been forcefully called out as a  
> requirement on WS-A to date.
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> Another way of looking at this is that it moves the WSDL 2.0 MEP  
> functionality into WSDL 1.1 via WS-Addressing.  If you want a  
> robust in-only MEP over HTTP, you use WSDL 1.1 and then WS-A with  
> the values listed above.   This seems like it might have a side- 
> effect of hurting wsdl 2.0 adoption, in the same way the WS-I BP  
> "backporting" parts of SOAP 1.2 into SOAP 1.1 has probably hurt  
> SOAP 1.2 adoption.
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> Cheers,
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Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
Business Alliances, CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.