Re: Transport-specific SOAP semantics - was Re: Visibility

Walden Mathews <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:41:33 -0500
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Champion, Mike" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:11 AM
Subject: RE: Transport-specific SOAP semantics - was Re: Visibility


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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Geoff Arnold [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 8:59 AM
> > To: '[email protected] '
> > Subject: Re: Transport-specific SOAP semantics - was Re: Visibility
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> > +1. And we need to be consistent with this when [if] we decide to
> > define "synchronous" and "asynchronous".....
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> Could you elaborate?  Maybe you mean that the definition of synch/asynch
> should be independent of the protocol?
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> I think that would help (I'm warming to the synch/asynch topic at long
> last!).

Careful!  The pond may thaw, the fish awake.

 >  Perhaps if we defined synch/asynch at the level of MEPs rather
> than protocol-level messages (not to mention implementation details such
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> "blocking") we might get some agreement.

This is in essence my "counter-proposal", to define "synchronous r/r",
"asynchronous r/r" and let the bigger fish continue their slumber.

WM

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