Re: Thoughts about path and intermediaries

I agree with Henrik (although strangely, I haven't received his
message yet).

Targeting without in-message routing is perfectly plausable; routing
can be supplied by the transport (through the URI, client
configuration of a proxy, etc.), by the application service layer
above the XMLP layer, an in-message routing convention that can be
specified later, as a Module, or combinations of them for multi-hop
intermediaries.

The only requirement that this puts on implementations is that they
understand and honor targeting.



On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 05:30:13PM -0000, Martin Gudgin wrote:
> I guess the problem I have is that I don't understand how you can have
> targeting ( marking part of a message as requiring processing by a specific
> software entity ) without routing ( specifying ( some of ) the nodes the
> message must pass through on its way from sender to ultimate recipient ).
> 
> If the XML Protocol layer doesn't know about routing then it doesn't know
> which nodes a message must pass through. How then can targetting happen at
> intermediary nodes if those intermediary nodes are never visited?
> 
> Gudge
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
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> 
> 
> >
> > >Having spent some time thinking about this Stuart and I have
> > >come to the
> > >following conclusion;
> >
> > Isn't there really three options and not just two:
> >
> > 1) One can support targeting only
> >
> > 2) One can support targeting and routing
> >
> > 3) One can support neither
> >
> > Given that we have as part of our charter and several requirements
> > addressing intermediaries 3) doesn't sound interesting.
> >
> > However, it seems perfectly plausible to define a processing model that
> > takes into account targeting without actually defining routing. As an
> > example this is in fact what SOAP does. Once you have the targeting, it
> > appears that pretty much anything else including routing can be built on
> > top. Unless we can find proof that this is not the case then I would favor
> > 1).
> >
> > Henrik

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Mark Nottingham, Research Scientist
Akamai Technologies (San Mateo, CA)

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