RE: D-AR006.11: Communication with the underlying infrastructure

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hugo Haas [mailto:hugo@w3.org]
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 12:23 PM
> To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Subject: D-AR006.11: Communication with the underlying infrastructure
> 
> 
> D-AR006.11 reads:
> 
>           + D-AR006.11 The architecture must provide an 
> interface for Web
>             Services to directly communicate with their underlying
>             infrastructure.
>             The interface is for negotiating services that an
>             infrastructure may provide to, or perform on behalf of, a
>             requesting Web Services. Such value-added services may
>             include: security, content delivery, QoS, etc. 
> For instance,
>             a Web service may instruct (via the interface) 
> the security
>             agents of its infrastructure to defend against DOS/DDOS
>             attacks on its behalf.
> 
> This seems implementation-dependent, i.e. out of scope for us.

Not necessarily.
What's imp-dependent can be made imp-independent.
That's what standards are all about.
But don't matter, imp-dep and in/out-of-scope are apple and orange anyway.

To the WG, the issue is whether it should be in or out of scope.

Cheers,

Joe Hui
Exodus, a Cable & Wireless service

Received on Thursday, 2 May 2002 20:50:40 UTC