Re: WSA From

On Feb 12, 2006, at 1:41 PM, ext Francisco Curbera wrote:

> WSA identifies parties sending and receiving messages using endopint
> addresses.

A *physical* endpoint address? Can I contact that endpoint? What can  
I send it, and how do I know? Can I, the client, send multiple values  
of wsa:To? If not, why not? I don't see answers to any of that  
written anywhere in WS-A. If it's simply an "extension point" for  
implementations or other specifications, then why not just allow EPRs  
other than those defined in WS-A to be sent as extra items of  
wsa:EndpointReferenceType (which, as I understand it, is already  
possible)? Any usage of wsa:To as a physical endpoint is clearly not  
apparent from the WS-Addressing specification itself.

If it is not a physical endpoint, then surely a URI would suffice.

- JohnK

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>                       John Kemp
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> "ext Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>
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> Christopher B Ferris/Waltham/IBM@IBMUS, public-ws-addressing@w3.org
>                       public-ws-addressing-req        Subject:  Re:  
> WSA From
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>                       02/10/2006 04:56 AM
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> On Feb 9, 2006, at 9:29 PM, ext Mark Baker wrote:
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>> I've seen this too.  HTTP "From" works similarly;
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>> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.22
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> Quoted from the referenced link:
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> "The From request-header field, if given, SHOULD contain an Internet
> e-mail address for the human user who controls the requesting user
> agent." [...]
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> Clearly an identifier, not a physical endpoint.
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> On 2/9/06, Christopher B Ferris <chrisfer@us.ibm.com> wrote:
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>>> In many B2B scenarios with which I am familiar, the "From" is  
>>> used to
>>> identify the party that
>>> sent the message. It is not intended to be some sort of physical
>>> endpoint
>>> (typically) but a logical
>>> identifier that serves to identify the party (e.g. http://
>>> www.ibm.com/)
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> Indeed.
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> So, shouldn't wsa:From be simply a URI, rather than an EPR? And
> having used such a syntax, shouldn't we imbue it also with the
> semantics of an identifier, in a manner similar to that of the above-
> referenced section of RFC2616?
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> - JohnK
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