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

[Matthew MacKenzie <mattm@adobe.com>]

Personally, I'm not game for votes on individual definitions.  I just 
want to reiterate my assertion that "invoke" is too narrow a word here, 
given the discussion that took place originally over "requester" vs. 
"consumer".  I'm still not convinced such a role is even required to be 
defined in this document unless the consensus is to model the RM in a 
"rigid" modeling language.

-matt
On 8-Apr-05, at 2:34 AM, Gregory A. Kohring wrote:

>
> 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
> C&C Research Laboratories, NEC Europe Ltd.
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