- From: Jonathan Marsh <jmarsh@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:21:45 -0800
- To: "Hugo Haas" <hugo@w3.org>, "Nilo Mitra \(TX/EUS\)" <nilo.mitra@ericsson.com>
- Cc: "WS-Addressing" <public-ws-addressing@w3.org>
Are you proposing to remove "(and opaquely)"? > -----Original Message----- > From: public-ws-addressing-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ws- > addressing-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Hugo Haas > Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 3:50 AM > To: Nilo Mitra (TX/EUS) > Cc: WS-Addressing > Subject: Re: wsa:Action in responses > > Hi Nilo. > > * Nilo Mitra (TX/EUS) <nilo.mitra@ericsson.com> [2005-03-16 14:49- > 0600] > > What does the clause "(and opaquely)" mean in the definition below? > > > > > > > > Actually, I see [action] associated with a message, not any > > > particular sending or receiving node: as the spec describes > > > it, it is "an identifier that uniquely (and opaquely) > > > identifies the semantics implied by this message." > > > > > > > To whom is this property opaque? Am I right in assuming that it is > opaque to the sending and receiving ***nodes*** but quite meaningful > to the sending and consuming ***applications*** using this message for > data interchange? > > I interpret this as being opaque to everybody but the issuer of the > identifier. IOW, either your application knows about it and therefore > understands the carried meaning, or it doesn't, and it cannot guess. > > I am not sure what value it brings and whether it's really useful to > have this specified here, as it may be the source of confusion. > > Cheers, > > Hugo > > -- > Hugo Haas - W3C > mailto:hugo@w3.org - http://www.w3.org/People/Hugo/
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