- From: David Booth <dbooth@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:39:25 -0500
- To: www-wsa-comments@w3.org
- Cc: Heather Kreger <kreger@us.ibm.com>, "Christopher B Ferris" <chrisfer@us.ibm.com>
Chris, Since I didn't see any response to the suggestion I made on Oct 21 to clarify the diagrams, (see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-arch/2002Oct/0306.html ), I would like to reiterate that I think it's important to draw artifacts / documents differently from actors / agents / roles. There's a big difference between an artifact and an actor (an artifact is a piece of data, whereas an actor is something that can perform actions), and that difference is muddied if they look similar in the diagrams. In particular, the diagrams currently use ovals for both a "Service" (which is an actor / agent / role, depending on your terminology), and a "Service Description" (which is an artifact / document, depending on your terminology). This isn't a show stopper if there isn't time to fix it right now, but I think it is important to fix when possible. There is more explanation at: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/arch/2/10/diagram_conventions_clean.htm Thanks -- David Booth W3C Fellow / Hewlett-Packard Telephone: +1.617.253.1273
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