RE: [soa-rm-ra] about Contract definition

What confuses me in all these definitions is mentioning of multiple participants.

A service contract is defined by service provider and specifies service’s characteristics and usage/invocation policies.

The way consumer uses this contract might be specific for a given consumer. Creating a service contract for a group of consumers does not seem to be practical. Remember a service is created not for a specific consumer(s), but rather to produce a certain RWE and might not be aware which consumers are going to use it.

From: mpoulin@usa.com [mailto:mpoulin@usa.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 3:51 AM
To: soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [soa-rm-ra] about Contract definition

Here is an alternative definition of the service contract (I think that trying to define a general term we compromise our goal - service contract. I refer to the Service Contract because we do not mention any other contracts in the document):

1071 Service Contract

1072 A contract represents an agreement made by two or more participants

1073 (the contracting parties) on a set of announced service characteristics and to be used policies applied to this service interactions.

- Michael

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