[INFOD-WG] Chapter 1 changes

[Ronny Fehling]

hey,

I think people are indeed having a difficult time understanding the 
concept and differences of entities and end-points.
I'm not sure, but I think we should perhaps lend the vocabulary from SOA.
We don't talk much about the client architecture (obviously since it's 
not part of the spec) - but we could speak of them in terms of services.
Basically, we require a service architecture where the Registry is one 
Service End-point and a set of external (client)-services. People should 
be able to understand that notion.
Then whatever we decide to name the 'entities', we should refer to them 
as internal registry objects. People seem to get confused about the word 
entity as being the external service - when we speak in the base spec 
about a consumer or publisher entity, people immediately think about the 
external services as being those entities - which is wrong. 
Perhaps we should include a simple graphic in our spec that would show 
something like the following:

[external service point]     -  [infod Registry service point] - [Infod 
Object/Entity]

I don't know if my wording makes sense - I would like to put this on the 
agenda for next weeks call.

Ronny


Fisher, SM (Steve) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have finally started to work again on chapter 1. I am looking to make
> the minimal chnages to nomenclature. I find that by saying that
> operations such as create (publisher) are with respect to the entity
> rather than the external object then we have no problem with out choice
> of verbs.
>
> To avoid confuion I no longer class a subscription as a special entitity
> - it is simply a subscription.
>
> I thought again about the term resource for anything held in the
> registry. I now think that this is confusing and would like to change it
> to registry entry.
>
> Further I will avoid the term INFOD objects but call them external
> objects.
>
> Comments please - especially if you object!
>
> Steve
>
>
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