RE: [soa-rm] [issue:structure] draft 07, sect 2, line 201, Figure 2-1

[Ken Laskey <klaskey@mitre.org>]

A policy can be expressed externally in any format you wish (hopefully 
consistent with some means to understand and evaluate if some entity 
conforms to the policy) but one could have a link to the policy be part of 
the metadata.

Ken

At 09:45 AM 5/27/2005, you wrote:
>Referring to CoreRM5.png, proposed as figure 2.1:
>
>I'm still not convinced that service description is *only* encapsulated in
>metadata (but maybe I've missed something or not caught up yet with the
>remaining 240 posts left to read...). Can a "policy", for example, be
>represented in a free text format, that is not metadata?
>-Peter
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Duane Nickull [mailto:dnickull@adobe.com]
>Sent: 20 May 2005 18:37
>Cc: 'SOA-RM'
>Subject: Re: [soa-rm] [issue:structure] draft 07, sect 2, line 201, Figure
>2-1
>
>Here is a rendering based on Greg's diagram that accounts for all the
>comments below.
>
>- I placed Metadata as a bracket inside the "service description" box.
>- Semantics will have to be explained using text accompanying this diagram
>to state that they are omnipresent.
>- turned the stack upside down so service is at the bottom.  To me, it
>seemed more intuitive that the thing that is core is at the bottom and the
>other items are built out (up??) from it.  Comments?
>- used the UML dependency arrow as the convention between service and
>service description to denote that a SD should not exist without a service.
>- redrew the line between metadata and policy / contract to connect with the
>outer container of "constraints"
>- removed the words "enables discoverability" from the association.
>
>If we use this, we should probably build an appendix containing clear and
>concise rules about how to interpret this mind map since it borrows
>association conventions from UML and mixes them together with other
>conventions.
>
>Comments?
>
>Duane
>
> >>>

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