- From: Dave Hollander <dmh@contivo.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:40:32 -0700
- To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
First, many thanks. It is good to have some wording to ground this discussion. here are my specific points/questions. 1) publish vs. advertise For many reasons[1] I prefer advertise. Can we change? [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-arch/2002Oct/0037.html 2) Description a) In section 1.2 you state: "A web service is described using a standard, formal XML notation..." Could it not also be described over the phone using Greek, Latin or English? Later on you use "may be realized as a set of XML description documents" This seems more accurate. b) Later in the paragraph you state: "provides all of the details necessary to interact with the service..." Not really. It can not describe pre and post-conditions, the business or legal context etc. It seems worth while to break description down into at least three pieces: concrete, abstract and service level where WSDL can provide concrete and abstract description data. c) In "Artifacts of a Web Service" the last sentenance of the web services description bullet says that a "description may be published to requestor directly or a discovery agency". Do we want to say that or do we want to say that at times the requestor acts as the discovery agency and requests the description directly? This says that even though the exchange is direct, there is still a distinction of roles. 3) Discover Services I like this term. In fact, I think having it plural makes the need to incorporate advertising/publishing clear enough. But, in the section "Roles in a Web Service Architecture" you switch to "Service Discovery Agency" The text works for me, the term used is singular and different than the graphic. Regards, DaveH
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