RE: Visibility (was Re: Introducing the Service Oriented Architec tural style, and it's constraints and properties.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 8:58 PM
> To: Christopher B Ferris
> Cc: 'www-ws-arch@w3.org '
> Subject: Re: Visibility (was Re: Introducing the Service Oriented
> Architec tural style, and it's constraints and properties.
> 
>
> Whoa, where'd that last part come from?  Reference please.  I agree
> that protocol independance is a good thing, but not such that there's
> no semantic difference between using HTTP and SMTP, for example.  Of
> couse there's a difference; they're different applications.
>

Whoa yourself :-)  If a SOAP message has a semantic difference if it is
transported (I use the term deliberately) over SMTP than if it is POSTed
over HTTP (or send on a floppy disk by sneakernet), then some deep
requirement of WSA (and SOAP 1.2, IIRC) is not being met.