RE: i0001: EPRs as identifiers

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 15:00, Martin Gudgin wrote:
. . .
> > In other words, the use of different customerKeys (or even different
> > policies) does not adequately *motivate* the need for Reference
> > Properties.  It would be far more instructive to use an example that
> > logically requires a different interface.
> 
> Why? Reference properties can be used to distinguish between services
> that differ by something other than interface/porttype...

Of course they *can*.  But the point of a motivating example is to show
that the proposed solution is *necessary* -- not that it is
*possible*.   If the problem could just as well be solved using other
approaches (such as Reference *Parameters* or merely URIs) then the need
for the proposed solution has not been demonstrated.

It's far more compelling to say that S1 and S2 should be externally
viewed as different services (and thus should have different Web
resource identifiers) if they have different *interfaces* than if they
merely differ in the value of some policy or other input parameter.

-- 

David Booth
W3C Fellow / Hewlett-Packard

Received on Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:50:32 UTC