Re: Composibility problems with refps

Yes.
Or in the context of SOAP, composability with any specification that 
uses SOAP header(s) as a mechanism to convey information.

-Anish
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Jonathan Marsh wrote:
> Specifically, you're worried about the case where the reference
> properties and reference parameters are in a namespace used by the
> reliability, security, etc. mechanisms, right?
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: public-ws-addressing-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ws-
>>addressing-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Anish Karmarkar
>>Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 11:10 AM
>>To: public-ws-addressing@w3.org
>>Subject: Composibility problems with refps
>>
>>
>>All,
>>
>>During last week's concall discussion of issue i008 I took an action
>>to
>>explain the composibility problem with refps in an email. This email
>>fulfills that action.
>>
>>WS-Addressing [1] Submission includes [reference properties] and
>>[reference parameters] in the info models for EPR. These refps are
>>opaque to the consumer. In the SOAP binding of EPR, the refps are
>>bound
>>as individual SOAP header blocks. I.e., a consumer of a EPR using SOAP
>>is required to copy the refps as individual SOAP header blocks without
>>understanding what the blocks mean or do.
>>
>>Typically SOAP header blocks are part of a SOAP module and express
>>certain functionality. For example, WSS, WS-Reliability,
>>WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-C, WS-T WS-Context etc, specify header blocks
>>that have a particular meaning that is conveyed from the sender to the
>>receiver. Specifications in the realm of Web services are designed to
>>be
>>composible with other specs. For example, WS-Context can be composed
>>with WS-Reliability and WSS.
>>
>>A consuming application that dereferences an EPR that contains refps
>>may
>>have some policies in place wrt to reliability, security,
>>coordination,
>>transaction, privacy etc. Given that refps may contains any XML and
>>these refps are bound as SOAP header blocks, refps can potentially
>>interfere with composibility of WS-Addressing with other WS-* specs
>>that
>>the consumer may be using. The opacity of the refps prevents the
>>consumer from making any inferences about the refps in an EPR.
>>
>>This issue is slightly different from the security of EPRs -- which
>>*may* potentially be resolved by requiring the minter of the EPR to
>>sign
>>the EPR.
>>
>>HTH to clarify the issue.
>>
>>-Anish
>>--
>>
>>
>>
>>[1] http://www.w3.org/Submission/2004/SUBM-ws-addressing-20040810/
>>
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