RE: Proposed resolution for Issue 50 (Misallignment of faut to and reply to )

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>Subject: Re: Proposed resolution for Issue 50 (Misallignment 
>of faut to and reply to )
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>Omitting replyTo when a reply is expected and defaulting to 
>anonymous seems
>like a harmless  optimization. However, it changes the semantics of the
>spec considerably by stating that for every message sent there is (by
>default) a channel to send responses back. This is just not the case,
>unless we start forcing all http senders to implicitly accept 
>synchronous
>replies or actively provide a new endpoint to accept the 
>replies. Makes no
>sense to me.
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>So I agree (that was my proposal at the f2f) tht we should 
>clarify the text
>by stating that faults should be sent to the replyTo endpoint 
>if faultTo is
>absent; but we should also leave the rest of the specification as it is
>today.
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>Going back to the core of issue 50, I have to repeat the claim 
>I made at
>the f2f that the asymmetry between replyTo and faultTo is just 
>a reflection
>of the asymmetry between normal reply messages and faults. You can
>positively expect a reply to follow your request; if you 
>positively expect
>a fault to follow your request chances are that you will not send the
>message. Faults and regular responses are never treated symmetrically.
>
>Paco
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>As currently specified, an EPR is allowed to have th value "anonymous"
>for the wsa:ReplyTo element. In this case, the reply goes back to the
>sender over the HTTP response, just as if not using addressing.
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>I would like to have an optimization (just as we did for wsa:To) that
>absence of wsa:ReplyTo is semantically equivalent to using the
>"anonymous" value.
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>Also: we almost agreed to have missing FaultTo implying use of ReplyTo
>when a fault is to be sent.
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>Proposal to resolve Issue 50:
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>First cut at text to add to the spec in definition of wsa:ReplyTo:
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>In the case of a message for which a reply is expected, the implied
>semantics of wsa:ReplyTo not present are equivalent to it being present
>with the anonymous URI.
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>In the definition for wsa:FaultTo, add the statement:
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>If wsa:FaultTo is absent, a Fault may be sent to the value (explicit or
>through the implicit indication of "anonymous") for wsa:ReplyTo..
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