RE: [wsdm] Question about consistency of ResourceId.

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An example of where different implementations might occur include 2 vendors providing manageability for the same resource. This will likely result in 2 different manageability endpoints for the same manageble resource. It is also likely that these 2 implementations will not coordinate to supply the same ResourceId. An exception might be if the underlying resource has some kind of universal ID of its own that can be used as the ResourceId.

From: Sedukhin, Igor S [mailto:Igor.Sedukhin@ca.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:44 AM
To: Richard_Landau@Dell.com; wsdm@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [wsdm] Question about consistency of ResourceId.

Different impls -> MAY NOT report same RID (use Correlateable Properties capability to deal with this)

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From: Richard_Landau@Dell.com [mailto:Richard_Landau@Dell.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:40 PM
To: wsdm@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [wsdm] Question about consistency of ResourceId.

Newbie question regarding the ResourceId property (I apologize in advance; I am just getting involved with the WSDM specs).

WSDM MUWS part 1, section 5.1.2, line 555 states, "An implementation that exposes several manageability endpoints for the same resource MUST report the same ResourceId at each manageability endpoint." Seems clear enough, and a good restriction. However, the immediately preceding sentence says, "It is not guaranteed that different manageability endpoints associated with the same resource will, in all cases, return the same ResourceId."

Puzzled. The two statements seem on their faces to be inconsistent. Is it possible that two manageability endpoints -- that purport to manage the same resource -- might be deemed to belong to two different "implementations," and therefore not subject to the first restriction? Or something like that?

Can someone please point me to some examples or other docs that will help me understand this? Thanks in advance.

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