RE: Un-fogging the Top cloud in triangle/rectangle diagram

Agree.  I also think that a discussion of "what to call the top box" is in
some senses a trivial discussion, but a that of "do we need the top box in
the most basic diagram" is not.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Booth [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 4:05 PM
To: Champion, Mike; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Un-fogging the Top cloud in triangle/rectangle diagram



Mike,

The discussion isn't about "what to call the top cloud", or "labeling the 
boxes".  The discussion is about whether a third party "Discovery Role" is 
needed AT ALL in the BASIC architecture, or "what boxes do we need".

I believe the BASIC architecture should only include architectural 
components that are clearly required for the vast majority of our 
anticipated applications.  Other components should go into an EXTENDED 
architecture.

I and others have shown several very commonly expected scenarios where (I 
believe) a "Discovery Role" is clearly irrelevant because the Service 
Requester already knows what Service Provider it wants to talk to.  Hence 
the discussion.

At 11:48 AM 10/8/2002 -0400, Champion, Mike wrote:


>I'm lost!  Could someone summarize the viable options that seem to be 
>on the table, and let's have another email straw poll to get a sense of 
>who can live with which names/conceptual descriptions for the "top 
>cloud"?
>
>As much as this fascinates us :-) there are probably 40 or so more 
>"boxes" we need to define in the WSA reference architecture, and at 2 
>weeks/box, we're going to exhaust a lot of people's patience :-)  At 
>this point I think its OK (if not really desireable) to label it "the 
>top cloud discovery / repository  role / service thing" and move on if 
>we can't come to consensus in a day or so.
>
>Thanks!

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David Booth
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