NEW Issue: Protocol or Vocabulary

[William Cox <wtcox@CoxSoftwareArchitects.com>]

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Protocol: bqos rating sla

Artifact: spec

Type: design

Title: Protocol or Vocabulary

Description:

This issue applies to

BusinessQualityOfService-v1.0-spec-wd04.pdf
BusinessRating-v1.0-spec-wd05.pdf
BusinessServiceLevelAgreement-v1.0-spec-wd04.pdf

Example is from BQOS. See line 3, which ways "...End-to-End Resource Planning, a protocol..."

These specifications appear to specify an XML vocabulary for message payloads or information exchange, rather than a protocol to define the interactions.

Related issues:

Proposed Resolution:

Change references to "protocol" to describe instead an XML vocabulary for information exchange. Address in the introductions for each specification.

If a protocol is intended to be defined, perhaps creating a separate protocol specification would be in order, but I believe that the purpose is better served by changing the descriptions to state explicitly that a protocol is NOT being defined.


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