RE: Proposal for advertising QoS features of a Web service in WSDL

Glen:

> Cool stuff, but have you noticed that it's exactly what both 
> WS-Policy and the Features/Properties stuff are trying to 
> achieve?  On the P&F taskforce we are trying to come up with 
> a way to integrate WS-Policy and the Features stuff into a 
> single framework.  I would personally much rather y'all 
> jumped into that discussion rather than coming up with Yet 
> Another Way to do something we all clearly want to enable.... 

Yes, we saw the WS-Policy stuff, and the reason we came up with this was,
"WS-Policy stops short of specifying how policy expressions are discovered
or attached to a Web service."

>  If there are reasons you've discounted the P&F / WS-Policy 
> work, we'd love to hear them, and if not, please join us and 
> help make sure we come up with the right thing.

What we were thinking, and now looking at the document didn't get in there,
was that a WS-Policy description could be one of the things (maybe even
_the_ thing) that goes in our <supports> and <requires> elements. It might
well be the right grammer to use rather than allowing arbitrary XML as we do
now.

What do you reckon?

Jim