- From: Francis McCabe <fgm@fla.fujitsu.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 07:04:45 +0900
- To: Paul Denning <pauld@mitre.org>
- Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
Paul: On Dec 12, 2003, at 1:57 AM, Paul Denning wrote: > At 04:17 PM 2003-12-05, Francis McCabe wrote: > > This diagram is a revised diagram for a refactored resource model. > > We may, or may not, wish to include the service model for discovery. > > The revised diagram shows [discovery service] about -> [resource > description]. > Seems a little messy. What is the relationship between a "resource > description" and a "service description"? > (Remind me again why discovery is in the resource model?) Discovery is about discovering *things*, and a service is a *thing* that you might discover. > > > I am beginning to feel that discovery is more like a choreography. The process of discovering may be captured in a choreography, but discovery itself is not a choreography. That is a category error. Also, there are many kinds of discovery, as you point out below. > > Perhaps we should move discovery to the service oriented model, and > add a box to that diagram labeled [discovery]. We have other things to discover than services. WSDL and Choreography documents, come to mind. Frank
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