- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:20:13 -0500
- To: www-ws-desc@w3.org
FWIW, my position on this is that while there are advantages to putting the operation in the message, I don't see that it has to be there. So long as the message contains sufficient information to identify the requested operation, I think that should suffice. An example would be a message sent to TCP port 999 meaning "store this data" (there's no "STORE" operation in the message). Instead of the operation, port 999 would be associated - via public registration at IANA - with a specification which describes the store semantic. IMO, you have to take one of those two approaches. The alternative, of not having sufficient information in a message to understand it, suffers from drastically reduced self-descriptiveness. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca
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