SOAP wording AI proposal

>> AI: Hal and Maryann to uncover existing wording for 
describing SOAP so
>> it can be put into Section 3.2 of the bindings 
document.

Maryann, Hal and myself propose the following text for this AI. 
I also plan to include the proposed text in the upcoming bindings document 
draft. The second paragraph is derived/modified  from the SOAP 1.2 Primer 
(probably should include reference).  Draft text:
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"SOAP is a lightweight protocol intended for exchanging 
structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment. It uses XML 
technologies to define an extensible messaging framework providing a message 
construct that can be exchanged over a variety of underlying protocols. The 
framework has been designed to be independent of any particular programming 
model and other implementation specific semantics. Two major design goals for 
SOAP are simplicity and extensibility <http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-soap12-part1-20030624/>. SOAP 
attempts to meet these goals by omitting, from the messaging framework, features 
that are often found in distributed systems. Such features include but are not 
limited to "reliability", "security", "correlation", "routing", and "Message 
Exchange Patterns" (MEPs).

A SOAP message is fundamentally a one-way transmission between 
SOAP nodes from a SOAP sender to a SOAP receiver, possibly routed through one or 
more SOAP intermediaries. SOAP messages are expected to be combined by 
applications to implement more complex interaction patterns ranging from 
request/response to multiple, back-and-forth "conversational" exchanges. A SOAP 
message is an XML schema definition and associated processing rules, defining a 
SOAP Envelope, SOAP header block and SOAP body."

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regards, Frederick

Frederick 
Hirsch
Nokia