Re: Proposed definition of node

Ugh. -1 .. :-(.

I don't like the re-introduction of "agent" .. we took this up 
and dealt with it once before.

We already use terms "service client" and "service provider". How
about something like this: A node is a single service client or a 
single service provider, where a single client or service may use 
one of more network endpoints (HTTP URLs, host/ports, JMS queues
etc.) to communicate.

Sanjiva.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Booth" <dbooth@w3.org>
To: <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
Cc: "Anish Karmarkar" <Anish.Karmarkar@oracle.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 11:07 PM
Subject: Proposed definition of node


> 
> Per the action item that Anish and I took at the F2F, here is a proposed
> definition of node that we suggest:
> [[
> A node is an agent[1] that can transmit and/or receive message(s) 
> described in WSDL description(s) and process them. A node may be 
> accessible via more than one physical address or transport.
> ]]
> 
> Reference
> 1. Agent: http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-arch/#agent
> 
> -- 
> 
> David Booth
> W3C Fellow / Hewlett-Packard
>

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