Re: Updated soap12-part3

David Hull writes:

> Personally, I'm not clear on how we're modeling intermediaries (e.
> g., is the ImmediateDestination the ultimate receiver or the first 
> intermediary, or does it depend?  Put another way, does the MEP 
> extend end-to-end or one hop?  If it's end-to-end, each intermediary
> will have its own copy of all the properties).  Maybe we've covered 
> this already and I just haven't swapped it back in.

Well, I think we badly dropped the ball on this in the original Part 2, 
and I would have loved to see us do it more carefully.  Still, I don't 
think that the one way MEP, which is supposed to be a simple building 
block with limited WG time investment, is the umbrella under which to 
tackle intermediary-enabling MEPs.  Should we ever wish to invest in that, 
I think we should evaluate that as a separate item, make sure the 
membership is ready to commit the necessary resources and that 
implementors will actually do something with the results, and then do it 
for Request/Response first. So, I'd prefer to leave intermediaries in the 
same somewhat vague state for one-way that they are for req/resp.

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