- From: David Booth <dbooth@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:57:52 -0400
- To: Heather Kreger <kreger@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
At 04:03 PM 9/25/2002 -0400, Heather Kreger (<HK>...</HK>) wrote: >Hugo Haas <hugo@w3.org> on 09/25/2002 02:18:47 PM >. . . >You were saying that you had issues finding a good way to call the >discovery part. I have the feeling that it actually may not be easily >described in terms of role. > >In terms of abstract entities here, there is the provider and the >consumer. The discovery is something which happens between the two of >them, directly or indirectly. I would therefore suggest simply talking >about "discovery mechanisms". ><HK> So then do we have "publication mechanisms" as well? They are not >necessarily symmetric. But what do we discover 'from'? ></HK> In the broadest case, from the Web. But it depends on what discovery mechanism you're using. If you're using UDDI for example, they you're discovering from a particular, centralized registry. But if you're using Google, then you're discovering from the Web, using Google as your discovery tool. -- David Booth W3C Fellow / Hewlett-Packard Telephone: +1.617.253.1273
Received on Thursday, 26 September 2002 16:56:50 UTC