Re: what is discovery - One concrete proposal

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:20:54AM -0400, Christopher B Ferris wrote:
> +1
> 
> However, I'm not sure that I concur, or am quite comfortable, with the 
> first axiom:
> 
> > 1) discovery need not rely upon formal documents.
> 
> I think that I understand the motivation here, but I also think that we 
> should 
> make it clear that the architecture relies on WSDL as the basic form of 
> description
> that is "discovered" in the exchange of service description details.

I don't think we can do that, because our requirements say that we
have to support both early and late bound Web services, and only
the early bound ones require WSDL; the late bound ones use application
protocols.

MB
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