Re: Issue 012: EPR Lifetime

I tend to agree with this.
I think one can use extensibility points in EPRs to specify timeouts or 
any other artifact of lifecycle schemes.

Wrt faults in section 4, would it make sense to define a 'Endpoint 
Expired' fault?

-Anish
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Francisco Curbera wrote:

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> It seems clear that one could build not one but many mechanisms for
> managing the lifecycle of EPRs. As a general approach I think WS-Addressing
> should not endorse a particular one (which one and why?), rather it should
> enable other specifications to define their own, so apart from maybe
> refining the faults contained in Section 4 I think lifecycle mechanisms
> fall outside of the scope of the WG.
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> Paco
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> Statement of issue:
> At the moment there is no specification of the lifetime of an Endpoint
> Reference.
> What needs to be decided is:
>       1)       Is there a need to provide a mechanism for management of EPR
>       lifetime? If yes then what should it do?
>       2)       Or: Is there a need to make some statement concerning an
>       implied EPR lifetime? If yes then what?
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> Arguments Against:
>       1)       The web has gone well enough up to now with the tacit
>       assumption that uri’s live forever.
>       2)       There is nothing like a 404 to indicate that the EPR you
>       seek has gone missing. The service thus has complete control over
>       expiration.
>       3)       Much complexity especially in request-response MEPs. A lot
>       of this complexity will arise from treatment of the case of EPRs
>       expiring between receipt of request and receipt of response.  This
>       complexity will extend to further complicate all protocols that
>       permit the use of EPR expiration.
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> Arguments in Favor:
>       1)       Provides a handy way for the EPR minter to control cache
>       contents.
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> General Puzzlements:
>       1)       Would EPRs compare equal if their expiration times were not
>       equal?
>       2)       If one received a message with an expired EPR in its to:,
>       whan ought it to be dropped?
>       3)       If one received an expired EPR in its replyto: ought the
>       message be discarded?
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