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Subject: Re: [soa-rm] eCommerce definitions
Duane Nickull wrote: > One thing I have trouble with is the use of words like "send" WRT to > an electronic message. Is anything really sent? No - all that > happens is the voltage at one end point is switched on and off several > times and the other side detects the voltage switches. Nothing is > actually sent from one place to another. Can someone actually > "receive" an electronic message? What about defining Send as the process/acts of making information available to another entity. And Receive, the act by which a reciver ensures that this information ultimatly is made available (when receive acts culminates or completes)? By looking at serviece related regulations, the event that corresponds to when a information/service "is available for processing/acts", is of key importance. turning on the philosophical mode. /anders
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