- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 13:49:58 -0700
- To: <dick@8760.com>, <soapbuilders@yahoogroups.com>
- Cc: <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
>Actually, I think consistent use of the ebXML moniker will >help with interoperability. The use of "shared, consistent >knowledge" is a common practice that has proven successful, >for example: >- TCP/IP port 25 is associated with the SMTP protocol across domains >- TCP/IP port 80 is associated with the HTTP protocol across domains Right, but that requires that these "shortnames" are centrally registered which is the case for TCP port numbers: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers Maintaining such a registry for a scarce resource (there are only so many port numbers) makes sense but this is not the case for arbitrary names like "ebxml". This is the reason why we use URIs for SOAPAction in the first place - to avoid a central registry. >If the relative "ebXML" moniker has consistent meaning at each >URL, kind of like index.html, then this would be a good thing, IMO. There is no guarantee what so ever about what the name "index.html" might mean - not even that it is an HTML document. It is a fundamental concept of URI architecture that there is no such binding: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html I would suggest that you pick an absolute URI for the value of SOAPAction header field. Henrik
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