- From: Doug Davis <dug@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:24:39 -0500
- To: public-ws-resource-access@w3.org
- Message-ID: <OFA3462EE0.094DBB6C-ON85257537.001565CA-85257537.00184CC4@us.ibm.com>
The MEX specification doesn't really define what metadata is to be returned when the Dialect value on the GetMetadata operation is set to " http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/mex". It just says its "this specification". I've heard rumors that it means "return everything you can" while the absence of a dialect on the GetMetadata operation means "return whatever you want". This should be cleared up. Proposal: Its not clear to me that we need to have both "everything" and "whatever" options. So my preference is to have the "mex" dialect be the default value (ie. when the Dialect isn't present on the GetMetadata operation) and have it mean "return everything you can". If we really do need to have these two distinct (albeit poorly defined) options - then, aside from defining what the "mex" dialect means, we should also define a new URI to mean "whatever" so that people can be explicit in the GetMetadata request and fill in the Dialect value with a well defined URI that means "whatever". thanks -Doug ______________________________________________________ STSM | Web Services Architect | IBM Software Group (919) 254-6905 | IBM T/L 444-6905 | dug@us.ibm.com
Received on Wednesday, 7 January 2009 04:25:20 UTC