Re: [soa-rm] Service Consumer in RM or not?

[Matthew MacKenzie <mattm@adobe.com>]

Michael,

Your last sentence is particularly insightful, and I do agree with  
it.  I do feel that certain members are pushing certain issues way  
too hard, and that maybe that pushing will end up causing something  
ill-conceived to occur -- such as premature branching of the  
specification.

-matt

On 6-Jun-05, at 10:02 PM, Michael Stiefel wrote:

> "If we do vote to include the SC, we then have to open up the RM to  
> everything else that follows which means that it won't be a RM, it  
> will be architecture."
>
> I have never seen satisfactory definitions for reference model and  
> reference architecture to say what should be included in one as  
> opposed to the other. Definitions are required, not analogies or  
> examples.
>
> I think this is another issue that is a subtext to a lot of our  
> discussions that has to be settled.
>
> It certainly is the subtext to the one document or two discussion.  
> I got a sense at the last conference call, that having two  
> documents was a way to finesse this issue without really dealing  
> with it.
>
> Michael
>
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