- From: David Hull <dmh@tibco.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:40:40 -0500
- To: "public-ws-addressing@w3.org" <public-ws-addressing@w3.org>
- Message-id: <422DFFB8.7010108@tibco.com>
I'm happy with leaving [action] as mandatory. It's basically saying "every message has a purpose", which is probably OK. As for endpoints, replace [reply endpoint] and [fault endpoint] with [associated endpoints] (0 .. *) as a set of 0 or more (IRI, EPR) pairs, and pre-define IRIs for "reply" and "fault". Note that the SOAP binding can still special-case this, mapping (replyIRI, ...) as it currently maps [reply endpoint] and so forth. This suggests an interesting refinement: Share the IRI for "reply" between [associated endpoints] and [relationship]. That is, define a single "reply" IRI, denote the reply endpoint by (replyIRI, /reply EPR/) and the reply-to relationship by (replyIRI, /requestMID)/. A fault, similarly, would have the relationship (faultIRI, /requestMID)/, and the hypothetical "special handling" message would have the relationship (specialHandlingIRI, /initiatingMID/), the only difference being that specialHandlingIRI is defined ad-hoc while replyIRI and faultIRI are defined by us. I'm not passionate about this or any other particular approach (though I do like this one at the moment), but as I read the charter, we /do/ have to make sure that we can directly cover cases outside the well-known MEPs: "The components must be extensible to enable other mechanisms such as new kinds of relationships between correlated <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-ws-arch-20040211/#correlation> messages, policies <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-ws-arch-20040211/#policy>, or service semantics <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-ws-arch-20040211/#service_semantics> to be built upon Web Services Addressing."
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