Re: [soa-rm-ra] point of action

[Danny Thornton <danny_thornton2@yahoo.com>]

To draw another analogy for the point of action, I
know your mind will be the point of action for
processing this e-mail as you read the e-mail.  The
e-mail address and the english language is like a
service interface. 

The SOA has many points of action, each point of
action potentially affecting many other points of
action.  We can identify points of action in a SOA
relevant to the reference architecture.  One question
we can ask is can we identify a point of action
meaningful to the reference architecture that would
not have a service interface?

Danny


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

> The following are from my notes at the ftf
> 
> Point of Action (poa)
> 
> -       Frank: anchoring mechanism for numerous
> things, e.g. policy  
> enforcement, evaluating needs & capabilities
> 
> -       Ken: how does poa relate to service
> interface?  Frank:  
> service interface includes actions you can perform;
> each instance of  
> use consists of performing action; actual action is
> poa; interface  
> vs. poa is class vs. instance relationship; the
> physical action is  
> the point of action
> 
> -       [Ken] Given a policy is a desire of one
> participant and an  
> agreement as part of the execution context for
> participants to abide  
> by that policy (i.e. the other participant(s) agree
> to make that  
> policy theirs), the policy enforcement point becomes
> the point of  
> action for enforcing the agreed-upon policy.
> 
> -       [Frank alternative] A policy is a constraint
> that represents  
> the desire of a participant. A contract is a
> constraint that  
> represents the agreed desires of two or more
> participants. A [policy]  
> enforcement point is the point of action for
> enforcing constraints  
> that represent either policies or contracts.
> 
> 
> I've reread this and am still having problems
> differentiating between  
> service interface and point of action.  It appears
> that poa is more  
> general because it is the location to which a user
> would send a  
> command for action.  If the receiver is a service,
> then the poa would  
> seem to be the service interface.  In the policy
> example, if the  
> enforcement mechanism is accessed through a service,
> the PEP could be  
> said to have a service interface.
> 
> I still seem to be missing something.
> 
> Ken
> 
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