RE: Proposed issue; Visibility of Web services

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-ws-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of
> Christopher B Ferris
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 2:03 PM
> To: Mark Baker
> Cc: www-ws@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Proposed issue; Visibility of Web services
> 
> 

> > Mike has said that SOAP firewalls will be going to market 
> soon.  What
> > SOAP applications will they understand?  Will those firewalls be
> 
> Need they necessarily understand the application? Might they not be 
> leveraging things such as WS-Security to determine if the original
> sender can be authenticated and given authorization using the endpoint
> address? 

That is precisely what I had in mind, and the whole point of putting in that
"visibility" text in the WSA document that Mark raised an issue on.

Received on Thursday, 29 May 2003 14:49:45 UTC