- From: Lucas Gonze <lucas@worldos.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:14:22 -0500
- To: "XML Protocol Comments" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
> > Routing could be implicit ( configuration based, perhaps ) or explicit ( > > sender says go to A, then B, then C ) or ??? ( suggestions please ) > > It may be implied by an associated message, through the transport > binding; e.g., request/response. If routing is explicit, addresses may be either absolute or relative. By absolute I mean that the address resolves to something which is the same for every node, e.g. a domain name. By relative I mean that the address may be relative to the node doing the forwarding, e.g. asking node A to forward to B means that A should use its own address space. One usecase is anonymous addressing. For a path A<->B<->C, B can gateway messages between A and C without revealing their identies. Another usecase is for heterogenous naming schemes. For a path A<->B<->C, B can gateway messages between one naming scheme and another. Examples of heterogenous naming schemes are multiple DNS roots, virtual addresses (e.g. where C is really a subdirectory belonging to B, but A doesn't know that), and proprietary namespaces like Real Names.
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