- From: Damodaran, Suresh <Suresh_Damodaran@stercomm.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 10:17:00 -0600
- To: "'Mark Baker'" <distobj@acm.org>, www-ws-arch@w3.org
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 9:09 PM [snip] To me, that means that before anybody even discovers the WSDL to find out what the specific interface is about, that there exists a pre-specified interface that can be used to bootstrap the richer stuff on top. [snip] Yes. There is a prerequisite for this, as expressed for "predictably evolvable architecture" in [1]. "CSF PE4. Stagger "features" in a standard so that even software that implemented only the minimal features in the standard can interoperate with another software that implemented more features" The idea is that if the features can be staggered (separated into "modules"), then a handshake protocol can learn about the supported standards/interfaces, and their "level" so that an entity can decide whether to interact with another entity, and to what degree. Regards, -Suresh [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-arch/2002Apr/0016.html
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