I agree with John, this is a good and important clarification. In addition,
do you agree Igor that your proposed text does not preclude the provider to
tell the consumer about more than one description/pointer to the resource it
manages if this is appropriate?
Regards,
William
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John DeCarlo [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 8:35 AM
> To: Sedukhin, Igor S
> Cc: WSDM TC
> Subject: Re: [wsdm] Definition of the identification
> manageability capability
>
>
> Sedukhin, Igor S wrote:
>
> > I propose that the following text is incorporated in MUWS
> and MOWS specs.
> >
> > "The identification capability allows the provider of
> manageability to
> > tell what it thinks it is managing. In other words
> refer/address/point
> > to the resource it thinks it made manageable. The exact way of
> > "referring" conforms to the subject domain of the resource."
> >
> Igor,
>
> This looks nice, but I have some comments on it.
>
> 1. I feel somewhat strongly that the "identification" be opaque and
> unique and not domain specific.
> 2. What you describe is crucial, but it would be nice to be
> sure that
> it isn't confused with the global MUWS identifier for the resource.
>
> Thus, I propose the following:
>
> "The identification capability provides the consumer of manageability
> with a [globally] unique identifier for each managed resource the
> provider of manageability thinks it is managing. This identifier is
> opaque (not decomposable into domain-specific information about the
> resource). It can be used to compare the answers from different
> providers to see if they are both managing the same resource."
>
> "The managed resource reference capability allows the provider of
> manageability to tell the consumer information about what it
> thinks it
> is managing. In other words refer/address/point to the resource it
> thinks it made manageable. The exact way of "referring"
> conforms to the
> subject domain of the resource."
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks.
>
> John DeCarlo, The MITRE Corporation, My Views Are My Own
>
>
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