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

["Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>]

Please also include my suggestion of "entity (human or machine)" for
additional choices (I'm sure you sent this before you read my e-mail on
that).

Thanks,
Joe

Joseph Chiusano
Booz Allen Hamilton
Visit us online@ http://www.boozallen.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory A. Kohring [mailto:kohring@ccrl-nece.de] 
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 2:35 AM
> To: soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [soa-rm] Definition of "Service Consumer"
> 
> 
> 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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