- From: David Martin <martin@ai.sri.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 07:39:57 -0800
- To: Austin Tate <a.tate@ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-sws-ig@w3.org
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
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