Re: [soa-rm] Definition of "Service Consumer"

["Gregory A. Kohring" <kohring@ccrl-nece.de>]

Here is a summary of yesterdays proposals for defining
the term "Service Consumer":

1) Software that invokes an instance,

2) Software that uses a service instance,

3) An agent that wishes to interact with a service,

4) An agent that interacts with a service in order to
    achieve a goal,

5) An entity that binds with a service is playing the
    role of service consumer,

where the suggested definition of "agent" was:

1) An Agent is a software program acting on behalf of an owner.

(By substituting this definition in some of the above suggestions
you can come up with yet more definitions of service consumer.)


Now, just out of curiosity, how do we proceed from here?
Do we vote on one of the suggested definitions? (This implies we
should vote on the definitions of all the terms to be used in the
final document.) Or do we leave it up to the editors to pick the
definition which best fits the style of writing being used
within the final document?


-- Greg



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G.A. Kohring
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