RE: WSA From

Oh, and I thought WSA addressed parties sending and receiving messages
using endpoint addresses.  

Do we need to re-open issue #1 if we're back to using EPRs as
identifiers?  We have said things like "This specification provides no
concept of endpoint identity..".

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
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> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Francisco Curbera
> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 10:41 AM
> To: John Kemp
> Cc: Christopher B Ferris; ext Mark Baker; public-ws-addressing@w3.org;
> public-ws-addressing-request@w3.org
> Subject: Re: WSA From
> 
> 
> WSA identifies parties sending and receiving messages using endopint
> addresses.
> 
> Paco
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>                       John Kemp
>                       <john.kemp@nokia.com>           To:       "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
>                       uest@w3.org
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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:
> 
> >
> > I've seen this too.  HTTP "From" works similarly;
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.22
> 
> Quoted from the referenced link:
> 
> "The From request-header field, if given, SHOULD contain an Internet
> e-mail address for the human user who controls the requesting user
> agent." [...]
> 
> Clearly an identifier, not a physical endpoint.
> 
> And:
> 
> On 2/9/06, Christopher B Ferris <chrisfer@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >>
> >> 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/)
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> 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?
> 
> - JohnK
> 
> 
>

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