Re: [soa-rm] Opacity calumny

[Francis McCabe <frankmccabe@mac.com>]

My original point was that I felt that opacity itself was not an  
appropriate measure.

Instead, a better (IMO) distinction is public/private. And that  
relates to descriptions v.s. assumptions.

I.e., an SOA is characterized by lots of descriptions; not  
necessarily lots of opaque blobs.

Frank

On Jul 11, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Duane Nickull wrote:


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>> So what of this is appropriate for the RA? <SNIP>
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> I was under the impression we had loose consensus that "services  
> control their level of opacity", however that wording doesn't  
> really make any sense since the abstract concept of a service can't  
> do anything.
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> Perhaps a non-normative sentence indicating that a service may keep  
> all its implementation detail obscured from any potential service  
> consumers yet implementors may elect to disclose an appropriate  
> level of detail to allow services consumers to determine if a  
> particular service matches their requirements.
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> Duane
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