Your additions could be characterized as infrastructure.� Is this in scope for the RA?
Besides that mediation and discovery will be accessed as services.� Other than noting some services can be considered vital infrastructure, aren't they just services?� Does the provider or consumer of discovery really differ from the provider or consumer of weather?
+1
And good for Reston!
I think that the judge had it wrong. Even if the trees had no legal standing, people do. And the loss of trees can result in a loss to people in the neighborhood. I suspect that that ruling would not survive an appeal.
BTW: I am not a lawyer, so the above is just an opinion...
I think that you need to expand the scope of stakeholders a little:
-- service hosts
-- service mediators (brokers, etc.)
-- service discovery agencies
Frank
On Aug 24, 2006, at 7:51 AM, Ken Laskey wrote:
From the ftf, we had
- direct participants
� -- providers
� -- consumers
- regulatory authorities
- non-participants (innocent bystanders/"victims")
My initial question to the list was whether the direct participants were *service* providers and *service* consumers or whether there were other providers (and by extension, other consumers and participants).
From the discussion so far, I would say the ftf list covers the territory and the direct participants are indeed always dealing with services.� However, the non-participants can include anyone (and possibly anything) else, and their identification is context dependent.
An anecdote that has some relevance:
Last week a judge ruled against a neighborhood group who was trying to block construction of the new Yankee Stadium.� The neighborhood group said the loss of the nearby park and trees would have a devastating effects on the community.� The judge ruled that the trees had no legal standing.� My daughter's immediate response was, "They do in Reston!"� Now I live in Reston, one of the original planned communities, and here you have to make sure your basketball backboards are the right color.� Notwithstanding those philosophical battles, one of the differences in development in Reston is they generally try to save the existing trees rather than clear cutting and just plowing everything under.� The result is actually quite nice.� In any case, context will often define the most relevant (for modeling purposes) non-participatory stakeholders.
Ken
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