Re: Proposed resolution for Issue 50 (Misallignment of faut to and reply to )

Sorry I meant request message not "epr"

Tom Rutt wrote:

>
> As currently specified, an EPR 

I mean a "message" not "an EPR"

> is allowed to have th value “anonymous” for the wsa:ReplyTo element. 
> In this case, the reply goes back to the sender over the HTTP 
> response, just as if not using addressing.
>
> I would like to have an optimization (just as we did for wsa:To) that 
> absence of wsa:ReplyTo is semantically equivalent to using the 
> “anonymous” value.
>
> Also: we almost agreed to have missing FaultTo implying use of ReplyTo 
> when a fault is to be sent.
>
> Proposal to resolve Issue 50:
>
> First cut at text to add to the spec in definition of wsa:ReplyTo:
> “
> In the case of a message for which a reply is expected, the implied 
> semantics of wsa:ReplyTo not present are equivalent to it being 
> present with the anonymous URI.
> “
>
> In the definition for wsa:FaultTo, add the statement:
> “
> If wsa:FaultTo is absent, a Fault may be sent to the value (explicit 
> or through the implicit indication of “anonymous”) for wsa:ReplyTo..
>
>
>

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Received on Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:39:08 UTC