Has Peter's comment been discussed? He advocates (I believe) that we should not include the GetAttributesDocument operation. Instead, any particular BES should choose (if they wish) to provide access to attributes via an appropriate resource model-specific operations. * A WS-Transfer-based BES would use GET * A WSRF-based BES would use WS-ResourceProperties * A resource-model-free BES might define a GetAttributesDocument operation * etc. This seems a good proposal to me. Ian. At 03:09 PM 9/2/2006 -0600, Peter G. Lane wrote:
2) Why are we still essentially advocating WS-Transfer's attribute model by having the GetAttributesDocument operation? In my opinion it is not necessary for minimal interop, and makes WS-Transfer's Get operation redundant. Is part of the problem that we haven't defined any interop standards yet?
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