Re: [soa-rm-ra] Service description bits

[Danny Thornton <danny_thornton2@yahoo.com>]

Thanks for your input Ken.  Today I didn't have time
to parse through your messages, hopefully I will
before Wednesday morning's RA meeting.

Danny

--- Ken Laskey <klaskey@mitre.org> wrote:

> I've taken responsibility for service description
> and will hopefully  
> get to revising shortly.  But in case that shortly
> slips, here are  
> some key thoughts for advance discussion.
> 
> - Description is very important both for the
> consumer and the  
> provider.  This includes abilities, protocols,
> formats, policies, ...  
> and differences need to be resolved to establish an
> execution  
> context.  This is alluded to in the RM but not
> explored.  I will  
> probably expand on that here.
> 
> - All interactions with a service must be based on
> informations  
> contained in or referenced by the service
> description or by further  
> information established during an interaction
> initiated solely on the  
> basis of the service description.  The consumer may
> know more (there  
> is no way to guarantee a limit on knowledge) but SOA
> would say the  
> additional information should not be used.  If this
> additional  
> information is critical (or just very useful), it
> should somehow be  
> included in the service description.
> 
> - The description must somewhere convey technical
> assumptions, i.e.  
> the world is like this and that is why you can
> expect real world  
> effects as described.
> 
> - Is sufficiency of description that which would
> support automated  
> use, assuming the contained information can be
> unambiguously  
> included, understood, and used?
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
>
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