[infod-wg] Re: Abstract for spec

[Fisher, SM (Steve)]

I like your rewording  - as I have chapter 1, I will insert it in my
copy.

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-infod-wg at ggf.org [mailto:owner-infod-wg at ggf.org] 
> On Behalf Of Dieter Gawlick
> Sent: 08 June 2006 00:21
> To: Fisher, SM (Steve)
> Cc: infod-wg at ggf.org; Ronny Fehling; Stephen Davey; Susan Malaika
> Subject: [infod-wg] Re: Abstract for spec
> 
> 
> I like the general idea but do not like to tell what 
> WS-Notification can not yet do:
> 
> Here is my proposal:
> 
> 
> Notification-based interaction is very common as noted by the 
> authors of the WS-Notification family of specifications. 
> WS-Notification offers a basic topic-based publish/subscribe 
> pattern complemented by a notify operation.
> 
> INFOD (Information Dissemination)uses the same notify 
> operation. Additionally, INFOD provides a general means to 
> determine which messages are to be sent from which publishers 
> to which consumers based upon information kept in a registry. 
> To support this, INFOD allows the characterization of 
> publishers, consumers and various other components using 
> vocabularies that are meaningful to members of the 
> communities they belong to. 
> 
> INFOD also extends the publish/subscribe paradigm by allowing 
> consumers to be determined dynamically based on the message 
> content. Additionally, INFOD allows subscribers to determine 
> which messages should be created in response to events.