- From: <paul.downey@bt.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:54:28 -0000
- To: <Jim.Webber@newcastle.ac.uk>, <Savas.Parastatidis@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Cc: <public-ws-addressing@w3.org>
Jim > Certainly the utility company does not stick an action on the envelope > like"urn:pay:up:or:supply:will:be:cut" which is the function of was:action. my electricity bill is sent to "accounts department", "Southern Gas*, London" "accounts department" being the action in this case. > When I received a bill from a utility company, it doesn't "invoke" the > "GiveMeMoney" operation on me. I just get a document which I parse and > understand, and may take some action on. endpoints are about /routing/ and action is about /dispatching/ i don't see how the ws-addressing spec could specify that dispatch contents must be, say a noun rather than a verb. So whilst i'm happy for *your* implementations to process the service specific message contents to work out the action to be taken, removing action will preclude other styles of service from using ws-addressing, in particular endpoints using a generic security or routing proxy (the post room in the gas board example). Paul (yes, i'm able to get my electricity from the gas company!)
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