- From: bhaugen <linkage@interaccess.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 06:14:28 -0600
- To: public-ws-chor@w3.org
Internal and external are just relative terms, but they have clear distinctions. It's related to What and How. Or Our Business vs My Business. In a contract between two parties, all of the commitments in the contract are external (shared or agreed common knowledge), whereas how each fulfills their commitments is internal. However, how each fulfills their commitments may involve other conversations with other parties which become external in a different context. In a Web resource, the URI and GETtable representations are external, whereas how the representations are generated is internal. But how the representations are generated may GET representations from other resources. So yes the external contract will constrain the internal implementation, but do you really want to bind them tightly together or leave them loosely coupled so implementations may change without effecting external contracts? -Bob Haugen
Received on Wednesday, 19 March 2003 07:16:20 UTC