Re: Semantics critical success factor

Just catching up on some old email I intended to respond to ...

I like this, though it appears to be written assuming that each web
service exposes a custom rather than generic interface.  That's ok
though; either way, this makes sense.  It's just a lot more tractable a
solution in the generic interface case, IMO, since you only have to do
it once for all services.

MB

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 03:35:57PM -0700, Francis McCabe wrote:
> 
> This CSF is aimed at capturing the technical goal wrt web services and 
> semantics; it is neutral as to technology adopted ;-)
> 
> The impact on architecture is probably less than on the description WG. 
> However, there is more to come ...
> 
> D-AC022 It should be possible for a web service to characterize itself 
> sufficiently for a web services client to make an automatic judgement 
> about the semantics of the web service.
> 	D-AC022.1 The elements referred to in a web service description 
> should be describable in a standard way; preferably in a way that is 
> consistent with W3C OWL
> 	D-AC022.2 Any operations implied by activation of the web service 
> should be describable in a standard way -- using standard references to 
> ontological concepts as appropriate
> 	D-AC022.3 Any preconditions and constraints on the use of the web 
> service should be describable in standard way.

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