- From: David Booth <dbooth@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:42:07 -0500
- To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
- Cc: Francis McCabe <fgm@fla.fujitsu.com>
I believe I've finished making our terminology consistent in our WSA document[1]. Informally: provider agent -- the agent that realizes a Web service requester agent -- the agent that interacts with a provider agent provider entity -- the person or org. owning the provider agent requester entity -- the person or org. owning the requester agent service requester -- (ambiguous; to be avoided in this doc) service provider -- (ambiguous; to be avoided in this doc) As a result, there were a MANY small changes I made along the way. Most weren't worth noting, but a few I wanted to mention: Changed some occurrences of the word "entity" when it wasn't referring to our defined term "requester entity" or "provider entity". Tweeked the concept description of "service" accordingly. Deleted "A resource is an entity" from the concepts definition of "resource", in order to avoid confusing it with our "person or organization" use of the term "entity". Since a resource can be anything, I think we can probably do without the statement. Frank, do you want to push back on this change, or are you okay with this? The term "service" (as a noun) was used in two different ways: (a) to refer to a task ("X asked Y to perform a particular service"); or (b) to refer to the thing that performs the task ("X sent a message to Y's service"). I've tried to changes uses of sense (a) to use "task" instead. Added concept definitions of "requester entity" and "provider entity". They are a little meager. Frank may want to fill them out better, but I ran out of time tonight. Whew! 1. http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/%7Echeckout%7E/2002/ws/arch/wsa/wd-wsa-arch-review2.html -- David Booth W3C Fellow / Hewlett-Packard Telephone: +1.617.253.1273
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