Re: Snapshot of Web Services Glossary

Hugo,

Great work. Some comments.

"binding"
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I think you need to differentiate between:

a) the binding of SOAP to HTTP, i.e. how one uses HTTP for 
transferring a SOAP envelope over the wire (see SOAP Part 2, 
section 7, SOAP HTTP Binding [1]).

b) the WSDL SOAP binding, i.e. how an abstract WSDL message is 
mapped to SOAP (see WSDL Part 2, section 2, SOAP Binding [2]).

Currently, b) is not covered by the glossary. "binding, 1." 
describes an abstract (WSDL) binding. I suggest you add "binding, 
1'." to describe a concrete (WSDL) binding.

"endpoint"
==========
The word "binding" is ambiguous. I suggest you refer specifically 
to a "concrete binding" (definition 1'. above).

"safe" and/or "idempotent"
==========================
I suggest you point to add a link to SOAP 1.2 Part 2, section 
4.1.2 Distinguishing Resource Retrievals from other RPCs [3].

"state"
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Shouldn't there be a definition for a state machine, as used, for 
example, to describe SOAP bindings?

"intermediary"
==============
Any reason not to refer to the SOAP definition?

"node"
======
Ibid.

"requester"
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Ibid. Why use a term different than "sender"? The same comment 
probably applies to "provider".

"role"
======
Ibid.

References
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The bibref entry for WSD Reqs points to SOAP 1.2 Part 1 (and 
actually an old version).

Jean-Jacques.

[1] 
http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/2/06/LC/soap12-part2.html#soapinhttp
[2] 
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~//2002/ws/desc/wsdl12/wsdl12-bindings.html?content-type=text/html#_soap-b
[3] 
http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/2/06/LC/soap12-part2.html#RPCResourceRetrieval

Hugo Haas wrote:
> All,
> 
> Here is the URL of a new snapshot of the glossary:
> 
>   http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/arch/glossary/wsa-glossary.html?rev=1.32&content-type=text/html&only_with_tag=edcopy_2003021401
> 
> The main changes are:
> - clean ups (redundant & conflicting definitions, uppercase/lowercase
>   significance).
> - improvements in light of the UeB glossary.
> - new terms defined.
> 
> A more detailed list of changes can be found in the document change
> log[1] and in the CVS log[2].
> 
> Some work has to be done in order to:
> - categorize (or not!) terms properly; see [3] and [4] for details.
> - ensure consistency with the architecture document.
> 
> Comments are welcome. Please hold off any comment on "a-priori
> knowledge", since I am intending to send an email about "no a-priori
> knowledge" and issue 1[5] in the coming week.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hugo
> 
>   1. http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/arch/glossary/wsa-glossary.html?rev=1.32&content-type=text/html&only_with_tag=edcopy_2003021401#changelog
>   2. http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2002/ws/arch/glossary/wsa-glossary.html#rev1.32
>   3. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-arch/2003Feb/0000.html
>   4. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-arch/2003Feb/0018.html
>   5. http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/arch/2/issues/wsa-issues.html#x1