RE: Web Service Definition [Was "Some Thoughts ..."]

If D&D are not an integral part of a Web Service defintion, pl help me
define
how would you define a Web (or a Network) of Web Services, the participants.

At a high-level, they must at least have the same characteristics. If not,
it would be much harder to reason about them semantically, deal with
managing & monitoring them.


Thanks,
Sandeep Kumar
Cisco Systems

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Subject: Re: Web Service Definition [Was "Some Thoughts ..."]


> The definition does not disallow D&D -- rather, it explicitly does not
> include them because they are not necessary. URIs, standard internet
> protocols, and non-human-driven application-to-application interaction
> are key, but D&D are not, as I and others have already explained.

Here's my 2c on "D&D".

"Discovery", without a doubt, is a key requirement of a web service.
What use is one that you can't find? 8-) But going back to our
definition, I'd say it's already covered by the point that requires
that Web services be identified by URIs.  Having a URI means that
discovery can be achieved in an infinite number of ways, not just one
way.  It can be centralized through a mechanism like UDDI (not that UDDI
is very URI friendly though, but that will change), or it can be
decentralized, such as when I send a URI in an email message, or post
one up on my web page.

So I'd say that we don't need to spell it out, not because it's not a
necessary part of a definition, but because it's already there. 8-)

"Description" I see as more ephemeral.  I'm not aware of anything that
can't be described.  So I don't see it as being very useful in a
definition.  But as a *requirement*, IMO, it's clearly important that an
architecture support it.

MB
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