Re: [OWL-S]: Proposal for 1 new control construct

Austin Tate wrote:

> At 17:26 09/02/2004 -0800, David Martin wrote:
> 
>> Here's an initial strawman proposal for this new construct, which 
>> indicates the use of a Web service that's defined elsewhere.  It's 
>> syntactically about the same as the "invoke" construct proposed 
>> earlier -- but it doesn't carry the same implications about what's 
>> going to happen where.
>>
>> We've been calling one of these things a "Reference" in conversations, 
>> but to me that's not really very helpful, so I'm proposing  "Use". 
>> Other suggestions are welcome.  ("Employ", "enact", "execute", "do", 
>> "run", "apply" ?)
> 
> 
> 
> We are really talking about a more abstract specification of a process 
> as opposed to something that can be directly invoked with some known 
> protocol I assume.
> 
> PIF work (which was the basis for the core of NIST PSL) used a term 
> "perform" for an activity if that is useful.  It may be sufficiently far 
> from the lower level direct "invoke" (invocation of a service) to be 
> helpful?

I like it!

Thanks,
David

Received on Tuesday, 10 February 2004 10:40:27 UTC