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   <div1 id="intro">
    <head>Introduction</head>
+   <p>
+    This specification defines a mechanism for acquiring XML-based
+    representations of entities using the Web service infrastructure. 
+    It defines two types of entities:
+   </p>
+
+   <ulist>
+    <item>
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+      strong symmetric key provides sufficient accountability. However, in some
+      environments, strong PKI signatures are needed.
+     </p>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+     <p>
+      <emph>Availability</emph> - All reliable messaging services are
+      subject to a variety of availability attacks. Replay detection is a
+      common attack and it is RECOMMENDED that this be addressed by the
+      mechanisms described in WS-Security. Other attacks, such as network-level
+      denial of service attacks are harder to avoid and are outside the scope
+      of this specification. That said, care SHOULD be taken to ensure that
+      minimal state is saved prior to any authenticating sequences.
+     </p>
+    </item>
+   </ulist>
+  </div1>
 
   <div1 id="metadata">
 

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     client policy.
    </p></div><div class="div1">
 <h2><a name="intro" id="intro"/>2 Introduction</h2><p>
-     This specification defines a mechanism for acquiring XML-based
-     representations of entities using the Web service infrastructure. 
-     It defines two types of entities:
+    This specification defines a mechanism for acquiring XML-based
+    representations of entities using the Web service infrastructure. 
+    It defines two types of entities:
+   </p><ul><li><p>
+      Resources, which are entities addressable by an endpoint 
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-     of this specification. That said, care SHOULD be taken to ensure that
-     minimal state is saved prior to any authenticating sequences.</p></li></ul></div><div class="div1">
+     </p></li><li><p><em>Authentication</em> - Authentication is established using
+      the mechanisms described in WS-Security and WS-Trust. Each message is
+      authenticated using the mechanisms described in WS-Security.
+     </p></li><li><p><em>Accountability</em> - Accountability is a function of the
+      type of and string of the key and algorithms being used. In many cases, a
+      strong symmetric key provides sufficient accountability. However, in some
+      environments, strong PKI signatures are needed.
+     </p></li><li><p><em>Availability</em> - All reliable messaging services are
+      subject to a variety of availability attacks. Replay detection is a
+      common attack and it is RECOMMENDED that this be addressed by the
+      mechanisms described in WS-Security. Other attacks, such as network-level
+      denial of service attacks are harder to avoid and are outside the scope
+      of this specification. That said, care SHOULD be taken to ensure that
+      minimal state is saved prior to any authenticating sequences.
+     </p></li></ul></div><div class="div1">
 <h2><a name="metadata" id="metadata"/>8 WS-Transfer Metadata</h2><p>
     An endpoint MAY indicate its support of WS-Transfer, or its features,
     by including the WS-Transfer TransferResource or TransferResourceFactory

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