RE: Primer 3.6 Policy Retrieval

Please open a Bugzilla LC issue for this item.

/paulc

Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
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-----Original Message-----
From: public-ws-policy-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ws-policy-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Paul Denning
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 1:17 PM
To: public-ws-policy@w3.org
Subject: Primer 3.6 Policy Retrieval


Suggest a change to the 3rd bullet in section 3.6

<old>
Use the referenced IRI and retrieve a policy expression from some
policy repository (local or remote) or catalog. Policy tools may use
any protocols (say Web Services Metadata Exchange) for such metadata
retrieval. These protocols may require additional out of band information.
</old>
<new>
Use the referenced IRI and retrieve a policy expression from some
policy repository (local or remote), registry, or catalog. Policy
tools or policy-aware clients may use any protocols (say UDDI or Web
Services Metadata Exchange) for such metadata retrieval. These
protocols may require additional out of band information.
</new>

Rationale:
Policy-aware clients may also need to retrieve policies, not just tools.

WS-Policy - Attachment REC has normative references to UDDI (an OASIS
standard).  Attachment REC makes non-normative reference to
WS-MEX.  Either or both protocols may be used in retrieval of policy.

UDDI is considered a "registry", not a "repository".  Perhaps UDDI
can be considered a "catalog", but usually the term "registry" is used.


Since it may be too late now to add a major section to the Primer,
has the WG considered a separate WG Note that would provide more
detail about what it means to be a "policy-aware client"?  The phrase
"policy-aware client" is used, but I think there is probably more to
say about them.

Paul

Received on Monday, 22 October 2007 17:49:32 UTC