Re: NEW ISSUE [Primer] : Update references to interoperability in Ignorable Policy Expressions section

I didn't say provider. I said not client. There is a distinction.

Cheers,

Christopher Ferris
STSM, Software Group Standards Strategy
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public-ws-policy-request@w3.org wrote on 02/21/2007 10:43:07 AM:

> Why would a provider may want to compute the intersection ?
> 
> Thanks, Sergey
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Christopher B Ferris 
> To: Fabian Ritzmann 
> Cc: public-ws-policy@w3.org ; public-ws-policy-request@w3.org ; 
> Sergey Beryozkin 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 3:37 PM
> Subject: Re: NEW ISSUE [Primer] : Update references to 
> interoperability in Ignorable Policy Expressions section
> 
> 
> One could argue that a policy consumer is one who consumes policy, 
> for whatever purpose. 
> I certainly agree that the agency that computes intersection need 
> not necessarily be a 
> web service consumer (client). 
> 
> Cheers, 
> 
> Christopher Ferris
> STSM, Software Group Standards Strategy
> email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
> blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/chrisferris
> phone: +1 508 377 9295 
> 
> public-ws-policy-request@w3.org wrote on 02/21/2007 08:25:22 AM:
> 
> > 
> > Sergey Beryozkin wrote:
> > > Target : WS-Policy Primer, Section 2.7
> > >
> > > Proposal : Update the last sentence : "Please note that the 
> > ignorableness is at
> > > the discretion of policy consumers therefore ignorable assertions 
> > may have an
> > > impact on determining compatibility of policies"
> > > 
> > 
> > Ignorable is a property whose relevance is at the discretion of the 
> > entity that computes the intersection. That may or may not be a policy 

> > consumer.
> > 
> > Fabian
> > 
> >