Re: Action item on document work from F2F

Agreed, we'll want to be sure that the definitions are consistent. If they 
need to be changed,
then let's address those individually.

Cheers,

Christopher Ferris
Architect, Emerging e-business Industry Architecture
email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
phone: +1 508 234 3624

www-ws-arch-request@w3.org wrote on 02/18/2003 09:16:15 AM:

> 
> * Newcomer, Eric <Eric.Newcomer@iona.com> [2003-02-05 17:33-0500]
> > Attached is an update to the WSA document based on an initial attempt 
at exploring some of the 
> suggestions from the face to face document breakout team.  Also attached 
is a diagram to 
> illustrate the service oriented architecture concept, which I'll explain 
presently.
> [..]
> > The proposal was reviewed and discussed briefly during the editors' 
concall today.  It was noted
> that the concepts section overlaps with the glossary and we would need 
to ensure consistency 
> across them and ensure the right topics and level of detail of is 
included for each.
> 
> I started reviewing the document more closely while I trying to
> fulfill the following action item:
> 
>   ACTION: Hugo to do Glossary - missing definitions from document in
>   Glossary
> 
> The Concepts section redefines terms that are in the glossary, and
> defines additional ones, as you mentioned.
> 
> An example is feature:
> 
> | A feature is a subset of the architecture that relates to a
> | particular requirement or larger scale property.
> 
> while the glossary reads:
> 
> | 1. An abstract piece of functionality. 
> | 2. See also SOAP feature.
> 
> or the infamous agent definition.
> 
> I think that in order to make progress on this, it is important to
> know why this draft ended up with different definitions and how
> different they are (not to underline the importance of having records
> :-).
> 
> That way we could see which characteristics of a concept are
> important, which ones we have consensus on and which ones we need to
> discuss.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hugo
> 
> -- 
> Hugo Haas - W3C
> mailto:hugo@w3.org - http://www.w3.org/People/Hugo/
>