- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: 2002年8月12日 09:34:14 -0400
- To: Christopher B Ferris <chrisfer@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
- Message-ID: <20020812093414.J16132@www.markbaker.ca>
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 07:22:15AM -0400, Christopher B Ferris wrote: > > > Mark, > > You aren't helping the process by simply tearing down. Suggesting > improvements > on the proposal would be far more productive. Chris, not only are we on a break where substantive decisions cannot be made, I believe I am helping the process by suggesting we incrementally improve upon something that was painstakingly constructed (surely you haven't forgotten the "definition wars"? 8-). > I would suggest that we should try to improve upon what we agree is a > flawed > definition (that which is currently documented in the Requirements doc) > taking > Geoff's proposal as a start. > > Given your feedback, I would offer the following amended definition: > > Definition: A Web service is a software application identified by a > URI, whose interfaces and bindings are defined and described > using XML artifacts. This definition can be discovered by other > software > applications which may then interact with the Web service, through > the exchange of XML based messages via internet protocols, in a > manner prescribed by its definition. This is definitely an improvement, but IMO, it now says pretty much what the existing one says. Is that what you intended? What specific value-add do you feel that this definition provides over the existing one? MB -- Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred) Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. distobj@acm.org http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.com
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