[Pgi-wg] Sec: Agreement on WS-Naming (ref by strawman)

Duane Merrill dgm4d at virginia.edu
Fri Mar 20 08:21:35 CDT 2009


> IMO the real question is what such EPRs may be used for. If they planned as
> replacements for URLs and *full* such EPR is going to be put into every SOAP
> header then I would vote strongly against. But if such EPR is just a way to
> describe service (same as corresponding section in Glue document) and are
> ony meant to be used in some kind of information system/port then why not.


 EPRs don't go in SOAP headers.  (Somehow there is a common misconception
that they might.)

You are correct in your latter statement: an EPR is a "far-pointer" to a
resource endpoint and contains the information that a client needs to know
in order to establish communication with that endpoint.
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