Metadata approach

I suggest 
that

 

1) metadata is 
expressed in the MUWS/MOWS documents where appropriate e.g.

 

    Capability A section

        
Properties

            
<propA>

            
propA defines....

                
metadata of the propA is

                    
wsdm:xyz='abc'

 

2) WSDM does 
not make any normative assertions about how the metadata is expressed and 
accessed

 

3) The specification 
composition is used in order to render metadata in XML documents and provide 
access to it. Partucular domains e.g. WS-CIM and implementations of WSDM 
manageability endpoint realize such specification composition as 
necessary.

 

For example, WSDM + 
WSRF-MD gives a solution where metadata expressed in WSDM is rendered according 
to WSRF-MD. 

This is not any 
different than using WS-Policy with WSDM implementations.

 

4) WSDM 
specification has a a section such as the followwing

 

    Representing and accessing metadata

        
Specification composition is to be used in order to 
represent metadata explicitly expressed in this 
specification.

-- Igor 
Sedukhin 
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