Re: Revised proposed text for intermediary

* Ugo Corda <UCorda@SeeBeyond.com> [2003-07-16 11:03-0700]
> The examples given (proxies and firewalls) sound like examples of
> transfer protocol-level intermediaries rather than message-level
> intermediaries (e.g. HTTP intermediaries instead of SOAP
> intermediaries). Is that our intent?
> 
> SOAP part 1 (the one defining SOAP intermediaries) does not mention
> proxies or firewalls at all.
> SOAP part 2 refers to HTTP proxies "acting between the SOAP nodes" (i.e.
> not an example of SOAP intermediary).

A SOAP node could act as a firewall inspecting messages and taking
decisions based on the content of the messages, and the definition of
proxy in the glossary talks about nodes, i.e. message-level concepts.
As I was trying to illustrate active intermediaries, I thought that
those would bring clarity as they usually are well-known things.

However your email suggests that they don't, so maybe we should just
use the examples from the SOAP 1.2 spec:

  The potential set of services provided by an active SOAP
  intermediary includes, but is not limited to: security services,
  annotation services, and content manipulation services.

Regards,

Hugo

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