Dear All:

Frank sent a nice email a while ago making the case for this. I think it's really unfortunate that there was no response. This lack of response to substantative proposals and questions (except, sometimes, for a response that "this was discussed and was not needed") seems to be standard operating procedure for WS-Naming and OGSA-BES. I don't think it is the right way to work if we want consensus and adoption.

Ian,


At 08:48 PM 11/8/2005 -0800, Frank Siebenlist wrote:
In the past I've advocated that we need an AbstractName equivalent as a service/resource identifier on the wire, i.e. present in the soap message.

During the last conference call it was mentioned that at the ws-naming F2F it was discussed that this was not needed.
Could someone explain what the arguments were? What the discussion was about exactly?

(maybe the f2f-minutes would be nice too ... hint, hint ;-) )

Thanks, Frank.

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