- From: Tom Rutt <tom@coastin.com>
- Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:57:25 -0800
- To: David Booth <dbooth@w3.org>
- Cc: public-ws-addressing@w3.org
David Booth wrote: >Tom, > >The reason is that Reference Properties are intended to be used to >address things that -- for all intents and purposes -- represent >different Web resources. (I.e., they have different WSDL, metadata, >policy, etc.) Reference Parameters *could* be used that way -- just as >cookies *could* be used that way -- but they are not *intended* to be >used that way, nor are they most often used that way. > > > > If you place a ref parm "<username joe/> in a soap header block where the message body has operation with semantic (what is your birthdate) will you get a differenent answer from another exchange with everything else in the message the same but with the ref parm value <username joesFather />? Tom Rutt >On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 21:16, Tom Rutt wrote: > > >>David Booth wrote: >> >> >> >>>The question is: What guidance are we giving to the world? >>> >>>As you point out, we cannot stop people from doing things in ways that >>>are anti-Web, nor should we. For whatever reasons, sometimes someone >>>may *need* to address Web resources using something other than a URIs. >>> >>>But what *guidance* are we giving? If Reference Properties are kept in >>>the spec, we would be *endorsing* a practice that is harmful to the Web >>>as a whole. >>> >>>On the other hand, if we drop Reference Properties, people who really >>>need to address Web resources using non-URIs could still (ab)use >>>Reference *Parameters* to accomplish the same result, just as they >>>sometimes use cookies to do so today. >>> >>> >>> >>I do not understand why Reference Parameters would be acceptable but >>Reference Properties are not? >> >>If either is present, they are used to identify the instance of what is >>being communicated to? >> >>Tom Rutt >>Fujitsu >> >> >> >>>Thus, they would not be prevented >>> >>> >>>from doing what they may need to do, but they would be encouraged to do >> >> >>>things the Web way. >>> >>> > > > -- ---------------------------------------------------- Tom Rutt email: tom@coastin.com; trutt@us.fujitsu.com Tel: +1 732 801 5744 Fax: +1 732 774 5133
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