Re: EndpointRefs-47

I see that nobody from the TAG has replied explicitly to Tim's draft, and 
I think we're hoping to wrap this up on the call today.   I agree with the 
spirit of Tim's proposal, but suggest some revisions.   Reasons:

* I think the direct reference to and criticism of specs such as WS-RF is 
somewhat inflamatory and inappropriate given that we are drafting text for 
WSA to include in their Recommendation.   Perhaps Tim didn't intend this 
as Rec. text.   I have no problem with making and debating such comments 
in email, and I share some of the concerns about WS-RF.  I'm just 
suggesting that in a Recommendation it's out of place.

* Having taken out that reference, something else needs to go in, so I've 
drafted an alternative.

<tim'sDraft>
"Use of the abstract properties of an EPR other than wsa:address to 
identify resources is contrary to WebArch" For example, we note that WS-RF 
specification uses EPRs to identify information resources (such as for 
example experimental datasets in the Grid) which prevents hypertext links 
from being made to them. We said that, and then said that we realize that 
current tools may not make it easy to do things that way, e.g. because of 
dispatch issues.
</tim'sDraft>

<proposedRevision use="IncludeasNoteinWSARec">
Note: "According to the Architecture of the World Wide Web: ' To benefit 
from and increase the value of the World Wide Web, agents should provide 
URIs as identifiers for resources.' [1]   Thus, use of the abstract 
properties of an EPR other than wsa:address to identify resources is 
contrary to Web Archictecture.  In certain circumstances, identification 
using other EPR properties may be convenient, but care must be taken to 
weigh the tradeoffs inherent in deploying resources that are not well 
integrated with the Web." 

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#pr-use-uris
</proposedRevision>

Sorry I didn't get this in earlier.  Anyway, I'll be suggesting this 
alternative on the call today.  Thank you.

Noah

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Vincent Quint <Vincent.Quint@inrialpes.fr>
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All,

At the end of the last TAG telcon, we were close to consensus about
the text to ask WSA to put in their spec. Here is the last version Tim has
put together at the end of the teleconference (see the draft minutes [1]):

"Use of the abstract properties of an EPR other than wsa:address to 
identify
resources is contrary to WebArch" For example, we note that WS-RF
specification uses EPRs to identify information resources (such as for 
example
experimental datasets in the Grid) which prevents hypertext links from 
being
made to them. We said that, and then said that we realize that current 
tools
may not make it easy to do things that way, e.g. because of dispatch 
issues.

Reactions, comments?

[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2005/10/18-minutes.html
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