Re: Proposal for Describing Web Services that Refer to Other Web Services: R085

• From: Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanjiva@watson.ibm.com>
• Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 04:55:59 -0400
• To: <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <01e601c30bd1$a9ccaf60$31120209@lankabook2>

"Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org> writes:
> The current approach, as reified in many Web services specs
> and this wsdl:binding proposal, is akin to;
> 
> <phone>+16132864390</phone)

WS-Addressing's approach is a bit different. Its roughly like:
    <phone>
        <number>+1613...</number>
        <international-access-#>011</international-access-#>
        <outside-access-#>9</outside-access-#>
        ..
    </phone>

Basically an endpoint reference in WS-Addressing is spsed to have all
the data you need to get to the other end. The actual "address", a URI,
in indeed required, but in many cases additional info may be needed
for the recipient to really understand a reference. In the POTS case, that 
includes quite a bit of info as Mike Champion so eloquently explained.

Sanjiva.

Received on Saturday, 26 April 2003 04:55:18 UTC