Re: SOAP intermediary - issue 70 (cont'd)

I don't think that we have dropped it. True, it is implicitly
rather than explicitly stated. Maybe the following would address
your concerns?

"A SOAP intermediary is both a SOAP receiver and a SOAP sender
that is neither the intial SOAP sender nor the ultimate receiver of
a SOAP message. A SOAP intermediary is target-able from with a SOAP
message by means of the SOAP actor attribute value. A SOAP
intermediary MUST process a SOAP message according to the SOAP
processing model. A consequence of processing is that the SOAP
message is sent further along the SOAP message path to the next SOAP node."

Cheers,

Chris

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen wrote:

> I don't think we can drop the notion that an intermediary is both a
> sender and a receiver:
> 
> "A SOAP intermediary is both a SOAP sender and a SOAP receiver,
> target-able from with a SOAP message..."
> 
> The important thing about an intermediary is that it acts on behalf of
> another SOAP node. I think that is stated slightly implicit in terms of
> initial sender and ultimate recipient but can live with it.
> 
> 
>>"A SOAP intermediary is a SOAP receiver, target-able from with 
>>a SOAP message, that is neither the intial SOAP sender nor the 
>>ultimate receiver of that message. It processes a SOAP message 
>>according to the SOAP processing model. A consequence of 
>>processing is that the SOAP message is sent further along the 
>>SOAP message path to the next SOAP node."
>>
> 
> Henrik
>