RE: Gateways

>how about this for the
>glossary;

>Gateway; a node that terminates a message on an inbound interface with
>the intent of presenting it through an outbound interface as a new
>message.  Due to possible mismatches between the inbound and outbound
>interfaces, a message may have some or all of its meaning lost during
>the conversion process.  Note; gateways may or may not be SOAP nodes,
>and gateways that are SOAP nodes are not SOAP intermediaries.

I guess I am ok for now, in the interest of making progress with the spec. 

To be honest, I still feel that the definition of what is a gateway vs. what
is an intermediary is not clearly cut.

Ugo