RE: Gateways

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ugo Corda [mailto:UCorda@SeeBeyond.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 12:11 PM
> To: 'Mark Baker'; www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Gateways
> 
> 

> Very interesting. Thank you for following up on this.
> 
> The only concern I have is that gateway is a term used in 
> many contexts and
> at many levels on the network stack (e.g., in [1] IBM talks 
> about a Web
> Services Gateway). So I am not completely sure what Henrik 
> was referring to
> when he said "The first question is of course what a gateway 
> is but if we
> strictly look at it from a SOAP node perspective ....".

Are we anywhere near a rough consensus on this?  It would be useful for
someone to write up proposed language for the WSA document and/or glossary
on this issue.  The editors could presumably use their own judgment on where
to put it in.