Re: [regrep] QoS in ebXML Registry?

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

Great - might be worth a TN of our own in the future.

Joe

> Farrukh Najmi wrote:
> 
> Chiusano Joseph wrote:
> 
> > During one of my recent client meetings (for service discovery
> > within
> > DoD), the issue of QoS came up as an important topic.
> >
> > I don't have access to the UDDI TC item I reference here (I'm not a
> > member of the UDDI TC), but I understand that the UDDI TC has been
> > working on a TN called "Representing Web Services Quality of Service
> > Information in UDDI"[1]. Without knowing the details beyond what is
> > in
> > [1], have we given any thought to this issue for our specifications?
> >
> > [1]
> > http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/uddi-spec/200404/msg00005.html
> >
> >
> 
> Here are some use cases of QoS queries from that document:
> 
>    * “show me all Web services implementations  that support interface
>      X with a request-response performance less than
>      100milliseconds”.
> 
>    * “list the binding templates of service A with a reliability of
>      99% or higher”
> 
>    * “are there any binding templates of services owned by business
>      entity B that have experienced more than 100 SOAP faults”.
> 
> It should be noted that we can easily do all of above use cases thanks
> to our support for Arbitrary Attributes using Slots and our support
> for Ad hoc SQL and XML Filter Queries.
> 
> For example a RegistryObject in an ebXML Registry could have:
> 
>    * A Slot named "RequestResponsePerformance" whose value is integer
>      milliseconds.
>    * A Slot named "Reliability" whose value is a float % value.
>    * A Slot named "FaultCount" whose value is an integer (Note we
>      already have ability to associate Services to Organizations)
> 
> Note that we do support full range based queries in ebXML Registry
> unlike UDDI. So we will not be hampered by the issue quoted from the
> UDDI tech note below:
> 
> "Given that UDDI does not yet have range-based searching, it may also
> be valuable to allow searches based on ratings.   It will be valuable
> to have simple checked taxonomies for performance, throughput,
> reliability and availability ratings.
> 
> A developer might ask:
> 
>    * “show me all Web service implementations that support interface X
>      with reliability rated ’High’”
> 
> An administrator keeping track of the quality of the hosting might
> ask:
> 
>    * “what binding templates have ‘Low’ performance”
> 
> Search criteria can also be used in combination, such as the
> following:
> 
> 
>    * “what binding templates have ‘High’ performance and zero SOAP
>      faults”
> 
> "
> 
> Again all of above use cases would be handled with the same ease as
> the range based queries earlier.
> 
> In summary QoS Metadata is just another run-of-the-mill use case for
> the ebXML Registry.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Farrukh
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Kind Regards,
Joseph Chiusano
Associate
Booz | Allen | Hamilton