RE: Issues to think about in the MOM

Regarding the unclear cases 7 and 8:

7. WSDL-based extensions

The way I understand this case (again, I was not the author of the original list) is a WSDL (non-standard) extension that would describe routing information not expressed at the WSDL message level itself. The submitter would just look at that information and exploit whatever out-of-band mechanism is available (at any level of the transmission stack) to realize the described routing. I don't have any specific example of this, and in fact I think it was raised as a (in principle possible) speculation. 

8. Using application-specific semantics

I think this is just the case where routing info is expressed at the level of the application payload (no SOAP feature/module involved).

Ugo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org]
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 11:52 AM
> To: Ugo Corda
> Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Issues to think about in the MOM
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:50:49AM -0800, Ugo Corda wrote:
> > > Yes, I agree, but that address isn't part of the message.
> > 
> > Could you please clarify which types of addresses are part 
> of a message and which ones are not? Given the following list 
> of possible intermediary addressing mechanisms, which ones of 
> the associated addresses do you think are part of the message:
> > 
> > 1. IP address interception (e.g., "transparent proxies")
> 
> Not part of the message.
> 
> > 2. DNS address interception/redirection (e.g., Akamai, 
> "virtual hosting")
> 
> Not part of the message.
> 
> > 3. HTTP proxy configuration (and autoconfiguration...)
> 
> Part of the message.
> 
> > 4. IP routing interception (e.g., firewalls)
> 
> You mean NAT?  If so, not part of the message.
> 
> If not NAT, then it is part of the message.
> 
> > 5. HTTP redirection (Status code 30x)
> 
> Well, that's not technically an intermediary scenario, as the redirect
> is a result of the message reaching the ultimate receiver.  
> But the URI
> of the resource producing the redirect is part of the 
> message, if that's
> what you mean.
> 
> > 6. SOAP routing / redirection  (e.g., WS-Routing, WS-Addressing)
> 
> Part of the message.
> 
> > 7. WSDL-based extensions
> > 8. Using application-specific semantics
> 
> Don't know what you mean.
> 
> Mark.
>

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